{"id":1197392,"date":"2023-09-01T10:31:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T10:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=92567"},"modified":"2023-09-01T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T10:31:13","slug":"the-silent-war-australia-and-indonesia-mum-on-papuan-human-right-abuses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/01\/the-silent-war-australia-and-indonesia-mum-on-papuan-human-right-abuses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The silent war \u2013 Australia and Indonesia mum on Papuan human right abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Australian academic has lit the fuse of diplomatic fury by publicly criticising Indonesia\u2019s brutal response to the Papuan independence movement, a sensitive topic for governments of both countries. Duncan Graham reports from Indonesia on the silent war to the north.<\/em><\/p>\n

ANALYSIS:<\/strong> By Duncan Graham<\/em><\/p>\n

An Australian academic is risking an eruption of diplomatic fury by publicly criticising Indonesia\u2019s brutal response to the Papuan independence movement, a hypersensitive topic for the governments of both countries.<\/p>\n

Queensland historian Dr Greg Poulgrain last month told a Jakarta seminar that the Indonesian government\u2019s approach “has long been top-heavy, bureaucratic, clumsy and self-serving.<\/p>\n

“The military arrived in 1962 and 60 years later they\u2019re still there in strength . . . more troops there now than ever before.<\/p>\n