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Indonesia in general is somewhat of a colonial project. Sukarno had large visions of a great Indonesian empire, and what the people who actually lived there tho
by arp242 2y ago
Indonesia in general is somewhat of a colonial project. Sukarno had large visions of a great Indonesian empire, and what the people who actually lived there thought of that wasn't really his main concern.
Arguably the occupation of West-Papua is the worst of that. Also because there's just so little attention to it.
- EdwardDiego 2y agoEast Timor was particularly bad.
- netsharc 2y agoSukarno was flirting with communist Soviet Russia and China, and had the 3rd biggest communist party in the world. When Suharto took over, USA was just fine with the status quo with a different leader, because it was then a US "colony".