Sunday, March 4, 2012

US suggests some autonomy for Indonesia's Papua

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Indonesia needs to allow "a degree of autonomy" in its Papua province.

Clinton said the Obama administration would raise the subject with Indonesia.

A low-level insurgency seeking to break from the central government has been waged in Papua since Indonesia took it over from the Dutch in 1963. About 100,000 Papuans, or …

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