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Forces East Timor (INTERFET), talk to a
citizen in Dili, East Timor.
(Photo by PH3 Dan Mennuto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Indonesian-backed\n militia groups terrorised the population. A three-week campaign of \nviolence killed 2,600 people, nearly 30,000 were displaced and as many \nas 250,000 were forcibly relocated into Indonesian West Timor after the \nballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
August\n also saw a resurgence in the unrest in occupied West Papua with \ngovernment troops being deployed. When Indonesia gained independence in \n1945, the Dutch government declined to cede control over West Papua \narguing that it was to be given the freedom to determine its own future.\n In 1961-1962 West Papua was invaded and annexed by Indonesia. An \nestimated 30,000 Papuans were killed up to its incorporation into \nIndonesia in 1969, after a sham referendum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to an article in Red Pepper<\/em> : <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018\u2026The\n occupation of West Papua receives little attention in the UK. This is, \nin no small part, due to Indonesia\u2019s ban on foreign journalists and its \noutlawing of West Papuan social movements who try to speak out \ninternationally. However, West Papua has not been forgotten by \ninternational corporations, including companies from the UK. For them, \nIndonesia\u2019s brutal occupation of West Papua provides lucrative \nopportunities for profit.\u2019 \n(www.redpepper.org.uk\/west-papuas-silent-genocide}<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\n article by Egret and Anderson details how mining companies exploit West\n Papua\u2019s vast wealth. US company Freeport-McMoRan operates the Grasberg \nmine in Papua \u2013 the largest gold mine and the third largest copper mine \nin the world. It is Indonesia\u2019s biggest taxpayer, making billions of \ndollars for the Indonesian government every year. TIME stated that \u2018In \n2015 alone, Freeport mined some $3.1 billion worth of gold and copper.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n BP\n profits from the occupation through its massive liquified natural gas \nfields in Tangguh, BP\u2019s biggest operation in SE Asia. Papuan communities\n are also being evicted from their land for palm oil. In addition, Papua\n boasts timber resources worth an estimated $78 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indonesia\n is an ethnically diverse country, made up of 17,000 islands, with \naround 300 distinct native ethnic groups and 700 local languages. The \ncountry\u2019s official language is a variant of Malay. Indonesia can be \ndescribed as an invented nation-state that having been subject to \ncolonialism has become itself imperialist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\n the pursuit of profits and administrative control, the Dutch imposed \nthe authority of the Dutch East Indies on an array of peoples who had \nnot previously shared any unified political identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The name \u2018Indonesia\u2019<\/em>\n is derived from the Greek (Indian islands) and was employed by an 18th \ncentury English naturalist to classify the ethnic and geographic area. \n\u2018Indonesia\u2019 was seized upon by nationalists as a word to imagine a unity\n of people. By the twentieth\n century, the Dutch had formed the boundaries of a colonial state that \nbecame the precursor to modern Indonesia. During the 1920s and 30s, a \nsmall elite began to articulate a growing anti-colonialism and \nnationalism, striving to carve out a place for themselves. In1928, the \nAll-Indonesian Youth Congress proclaimed the Youth Pledge (Sumpah Pemuda<\/em>),\n establishing the nationalist goals of: \u2018one country \u2013 Indonesia, one \npeople \u2013 Indonesian, and one language \u2013 Indonesian.\u2019 After the surrender\n of Japan, Sukarno proclaimed Indonesian independence. The Dutch \nattempted to re-establish their rule, and an armed struggle ensued but \nin 1949, the Dutch recognised Indonesian independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ALJO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From Material World<\/a> article in Socialist Standard October 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In August, East Timor (Timor Leste) celebrated 20 years independence from Indonesia. The 1974 left-wing coup in Portugal led to the dismantling of its colonies including what was then called Portuguese Timor. Indonesian forces commenced covert attacks, then invaded in 1975. An estimated 100,000 conflict-related deaths through the entire period 1974 to 1999, including 18,600…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2740,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"magazine_newspaper_sidebar_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2744","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2744\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Socialist Party rejects nationalism as\n anti-working class because it has always tied the working people to its\n class enemy. Nationalism is the ideology of an actual or an aspiring \ncapitalist class. It is of the practice of native capitalists that when \nimperialism prevents them for building their own independent capitalist \nstate, they lead resistance against it. Sooner or later, successful \nanti-imperialism then becomes imperialism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n