If you don’t know the history of West Papua here’s a little summary. The Netherlands relinquished control of West Papua in 1962 and the following year Indonesia took control of the territory. In 1969 Indonesia had West Papua vote on integration, but only allowed 1,025 selected representatives from the population of around 800,000 to vote. Not having a proper vote on self determination has led to an independence movement going for the last 5 decades. The conflict hasn’t been peaceful with nearly 100,000 people having been displaced.
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