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On Papuan Nationalism
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Journal of Contemporary Politics

DOI: 10.53989/jcp.v4i1.54

Year: 2025, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 6-9

Original Article

On Papuan Nationalism

C S Rajeesh1,∗

1Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Surana College Autonomous, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

*Corresponding Author
Email: [email protected]

Received Date:15 December 2024, Accepted Date:21 May 2025, Published Date:10 June 2025

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Abstract

This article sheds light on the political and cultural dimensions of the ongoing conflict between the government of Indonesia and the people of the Papua region. The study has been organized into three sections to unravel the contradictory perspectives of the Indonesian government and Papuan separatists on Papuan problematique. First, it critically observes the political and security priorities of colonial and post-colonial governments to hegemonize the Papuan region in the name of national, regional, and international security. Second, it analyzes the genesis of Papuan nationalism with emphasis on the diverse and complex tribal culture of the Papua region against increasingly repressive Indonesian state centrism. Finally, it examines the strategic move of the Indonesian government to promote transmigration through the policy of Indonesianization or Javanization in the Papua region to assimilate the indigenous Papuans with the mainland.

Keywords: Papua, Cold War, Transmigration, Indonesianization, Self-Rule, Sovereignty

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© 2025 Published by Bangalore University. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 

  • 10 June 2025

Year: 2025, Volume: 4, Issue: 1

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