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Papua and realism in foreign policy.(Editorial)

Quadrant

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ONCE AGAIN the party of war against Indonesia is going through a paroxysm of jingoism. Having achieved a "victory" in East Timor, with the creation of an already corrupt and failing independent state, it is now bent on achieving a similar result in Indonesia's province of Papua. This is, naturally, represented as an exercise in morality and international law and under this rubric many religious and political (these days sometimes the two are indistinguishable) groupuscules are busily meddling in Papuan affairs and contributing what they can to the destabilisation of the Republic of Indonesia. Not surprisingly there is considerable resentment of such activities by many ...

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