Letter: Supporting Palestine, forgetting Papua | The Jakarta Post

Recently, Indonesia’s international role has seemingly become the role model for most developing countries and has strengthened Indonesia’s foothold in the international community. Indonesia’s support for Palestinian people may acquire the majority of General Assembly members but not the US, since the Obama administration has vowed to veto any resolution brought to the Security Council.Regardless of all its successes and achievements in the international role, Indonesia still opposes an independent Papua. A few pro-independence groups are struggling to free the territory from Indonesia’s authority.

By lifting the human rights issues and human rights abuses by Indonesian military. Furthermore, Papua’s history regarding the role of the United Nations roles in the 1960s has been questioned. So the question is, could the struggle of Palestinians become a role model for pro-independence groups in Papua to express their own aspirations?
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