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Papua's Insecurity: State Failure in the Indonesian Periphery

Papua's Insecurity: State Failure in the Indonesian Periphery

Anderson, Bobby

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General Political ScienceIndigenous StudiesSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $10.00

ISBN10: 086638264X
ISBN13: 9780866382649
Publisher: East West Ctr
Published: Aug 3 2015
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

West Papua is the most violent area of Indonesia. Indonesian security forces battle the country's last active separatist insurgency there. The majority of Indonesia's political prisoners are Papuans, and support for independence is widespread.

But military repression and indigenous resistance are only one part of a complex topography of insecurity in Papua: vigilantism, clan conflict, and other forms of horizontal violence produce more casualties than the vertical conflict that is often the exclusive focus of international accounts of contemporary Papua. Similarly, Papua's coerced incorporation into Indonesia in 1969 is not unique; it mirrors a pattern of long-term annexation found in other remote and highland areas of South and Southeast Asia. What distinguishes Papua is the near-total absence of the state in indigenous areas. This is the consequence of a morass of policy dysfunction over time that compounds the insecurity that ordinary Papuans face.

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