Papua, the stolen independance

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Date and time Friday 21 January 2005 20:15 tot 21:10 uur
Location Theater aan het Spui - kleine zaal

West-Papua was promised independance once. But Mr Luns and president Soekarno thought otherwise. Dirk Vlasblom, NRC correspondent in Jakarta, has written the first extensive history of West-Papua. He tried to write as much as possible from the Papuan's point of view . The exiled Papuan headmen Viktor Kaisiëpo and Zacharias Sawor have fought for years for a West-Papuan future. A discussion - illustrated with historical film archives - chaired by journalist Paul van der Gaag.

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Paul van der Gaag

(Netherlands, 1958) has produced and presented the VPRO radio programme OVT since 2002, a two-hour show about the historical roots of current events as well as newly released historical books, films, commemorations, and anything else related to history. The show features live interviews, reportage, columns and a weekly documentary during the last half hour. He was already linked to OVT since 1992 as a programmer and previously freelanced for other national Dutch broadcasters such as VARA and IKON.
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Zacharias Sawor

(Biak, Indonesia, 1937) is the writer of the book Ik ben een Papoea (I am a Papuan) (1969). This book gives a full account of the corruption, terror and murder which followed the handing over of Dutch New Guinea to Indonesia up until the definitive handing over in 1969. Sawor was one of the first five Papuan boys to be sent to the Netherlands in 1955 on the occasion of the 100 year anniversary of the Missionary. He studied at the National School for Tropical Agriculture in Deventer and afterwards, in September 1962, returned to West Irian. He was soon arrested for illegal political activities and imprisoned until 1966. In 1967 he fled to the Netherlands. Up until 1995 he was chief editor of the West Papuan Courier.
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Viktor Kaisiëpo

Victor Kaisiëpo is born in 1948 in Korido, West Papua. In October 1962 the family of Victor Kaisiëpo came to live in the Netherlands as a result of the New York Agreement in August 1962 and the resistence of his father, Markus Kaisiëpo, against the Indonesian takeover. Victor Kaisiëpo continues his father’s work, for the right of self-determination of his people. Since 1984 he does that on a fulltime basis. In July 2000 he was one of the speakers during the already historical Second Papua People’s Conference in Jayapura where he was appointed as the representative in Europe of the Presidium Dewan Papua. He participates in various Dutch, European and international networks and conducts dialogue with various governments.
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Kees Lagerberg

Dr. C.S.I.J. Lagerberg is an expert on the Indonesian Archipelago and a former head lecturer at the Catholic University Brabant. He was also a governer in Dutch New Guinea.
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