De ontwikkeling van West Irian na de overname door Indonesië, de gevolgen van de transmigratiepolitie en hoe de Papoea's werden verdrongen uit hun economische positie door de Indonesiërs.

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LAGERBERG was from 1951 to 1962 a district officer and an acting district commissioner in the Netherlands colonial service in New Guinea, subsequently for several years an adviser on development aid to the Netherlands government and now a senior lecturer in cultural anthropology at the Catholic University of Tilburg. The book was commissioned and written to inform the world, as fully as possible, of a very great modern injustice to which no fair solution is yet in sight.
Dr Lagerberg's book does not advocate outright independence for West New Guinea as an immediate possibility; but convergence with independent Papua New Guinea, and incorporation in a wider "Melanesian federation," are both well within the realm of what is possible. At least the Western world, preoccupied with the problem of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and the South-East Asian mainland, should pause to consider the plight of the indigenous Papuan population of "occupied" West New Guinea.

HAPIN - Papua Support Foundation besteedt de volledige opbrengst van de verkoop aan ontwikkelingsprojecten en studiebeurzen in West Papoea