RodneyK
That is an buttumption based on your past experience.
No it does not, in West Papua that happen between 1930 and 1961. Since 1965 somewhere between 100,000 and 800,000 West Papuan people have died in defence of their national flag, the Morning Star flag which was designed or selected by the West Papuan Parliament in 1961 and raised in 1st December 1961 about two and a half weeks before General Suharto attempted a paratrooper invasion of the 'remote' highlands... Of course what happen was that the highland villagers swarmed and overwhelmed the Indonesian paratroopers and took them prisoner while they sent runners to inform the nearest West Papuan troops and ask them to take the prisoners. A few weeks later in January 1962 Indonesia sent torpedo boats into West New Guinea's waters; some of these got sunk and the United Nations was requested to help return 52 of the Indonesian sailors to Java.
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No, just unaware of what had been happening across the Arafura Sea. Many people still imagine West Papua to have been some kind of reflection of the eastern half under German & British claim. To compare, Germany's first major expedition to the inlands of their 'New Guinea Territory' took the expedition 20 miles up river, in 1906.
Now, the Dutch had not explored much of West Papua either; BUT since the 1860s the Dutch Missionaries had been training Papuans to teach other Papuans; the West Papuan independence movement did not start at a 'Missionary school' but at a Missionary Teachers College when several of the graduates started talking about the risk of a more hostile colonial invasion unless a pan-Papuan idenbreasty and then government was created.
That's why by 1961 the telephones, radio stations, police, and much of the medical and civil infrastructure was being manned by Papuans. Sure in Australian administrated Papua & New Guinea territories the people had not had this exposure nor seen any real need for a national idenbreasty and government, I don't know if there was even any industrial work in Port Moresby but in West Papua the metal working shops and other technical services had been manned by the Papuans since the 1920s.
