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... to protest about the deferral of intended aid increases. Indonesia -- Australia's largest aid recipient -- does not care too much about Australian aid in any case. For some in Indonesia, Australian aid is viewed through a paranoid lens as a mechanism for ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 20/05/2013 - 2:32pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... "Kissinger Cables" has shown that while the US expected Indonesia would invade what was then Portuguese Timor in 1975, it did not wish ... not to become involved. The cable stated that while Indonesia's "incorporation" of Portuguese Timor would be the outcome most ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 11/04/2013 - 5:56pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... including (not in order) Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Portugal, Brazil, China, the US and Japan. These relations are of ... into ASEAN, in which it has some supporters (including Indonesia, but not Singapore) and which will probably eventually accede to this ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 23/03/2013 - 1:39pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Violence has again broken out in Indonesia’s troubled province of West Papua, with the Australian-supported ... the province to mark West Papua's incorporation into Indonesia. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has said in ... excessive use of force in Papua. I urge the government of Indonesia to allow peaceful protest and hold accountable those involved in ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 06/05/2013 - 1:10pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... relations with its giant and once problematic neighbour, Indonesia, are now so positive that it has been mooted that East Timor’s defence forces might start training with Indonesia’s army. Australia’s peace-keeping commitment to the ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 08/01/2013 - 3:44pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... the raid with any of their allies; not Australia, not Indonesia and especially not Pakistan. While the US knew where bin Laden was, ... on the Afghanistan border, to meet with Al Qaeda leaders. Indonesia’s Defence Minister, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, said that Indonesia ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 05/05/2011 - 12:38pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

When Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, part of its justification was that the ... of that year. But Fretilin’s victory was viewed in Indonesia as establishing a communist base in the middle of its archipelago at ... in the region seemed in the ascendency. At that time, Indonesia was vehemently anti-communist, having destroyed its own communist ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 10/08/2012 - 2:25pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... West Papua. The increased security presence coincided with Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sending former Aceh negotiator ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 20/06/2012 - 11:15am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... no matter how cordial Australia’s relationship with Indonesia is or how much it is desired to be so, perennial issues continue that ... the gap between how Australia official engages with Indonesia and how that engagement is more widely viewed within Australia ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 29/08/2012 - 12:09pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... simply allow the pre-existing boundary agreement with Indonesia to remain in place, East Timor would be starved of revenue from the ...

Blog entry - Damien Kingsbury - 08/03/2013 - 9:30am - 0 comments - 0 attachments