Papers presented at the Seminar on the Act of Free Choice

Held in The Hague 15 November 2005 on the occasion of the book launch of P.J. Drooglever, Een Daad van Vrije Keuze. De Papoea’s van westelijk Nieuw-Guinea en de grenzen van het zelfbeschikkingsrecht (An Act of Free Choice. The Papuans of western New Guinea and the limitations of the right of self determination)

Edited by P.J. Drooglever

Contents

• Preface
• 1: Leontine E. Visser. The Papuan administrator as development broker: Governing New Guinea between 1950 and 1962
• 2: Jaap Timmer. Spectres of Indonesianisation and Secession in Papua
• 3: Richard Chauvel. Papuan political imaginings of the 1960s: international conflict and local nationalism
• 4: John Saltford. The United Nations, West Papua and the Act of Free Choice: decolonization in action?
• 5: Bilveer Singh. West Irian and the Suharto Presidency: a perspective
• 6: Amapon J. Marey. My experiences as a civil servant in West Papua (New Guinea)
• 7: Pieter Drooglever. Papua, a multi-facetted history
• 8: Summary in English
• 9: Rinkasan
• About the authors

This online publication contains the papers that were presented at the seminar held on 15 November 2005 in the auditorium of the Royal Library in The Hague. The seminar was organized to mark the occasion of the book launch of a monograph written by P. J. Drooglever on the history Western New Guinea up to the Act of Free Choice of 1969. It was published by Boom Publishers in Amsterdam and the Institute of Netherlands History under the title Een Daad van Vrije Keuze. De Papoea´s van westelijk Nieuw-Guinea en de grenzen van het zelfbeschikkingsrecht (An Act of Free Choice, the Papuans of West New Guinea and the limits of the right of self-determination). The book was written at the request of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ministry had asked for an academic study that would provide sound information on the subject for a wide audience.

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Papers presented at the Seminar on the Act of Free Choice.
Held in The Hague 15 November 2005 on the occasion of the book launch of P.J. Drooglever, Een Daad van Vrije Keuze. De Papoea’s van westelijk Nieuw-Guinea en de grenzen van het zelfbeschikkingsrecht (An Act of Free Choice. The Papuans of western New Guinea and the limitations of the right of self determination),
edited by P.J. Drooglever. Institute of Netherlands History (The Hague 2008), 152 pages, paperback. Price: € 18,00.