FreshEd #315 – Settling for Less (Lachlan McNamee)
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The Perverse Use of Racism in Indonesia
Indonesia was leading some of the decolonization movements starting in the 50s really. Was there a racial justification of Indonesia to sort of colonize West Papua? The racial justification that Indonesia made for colonization was that all Indonesian ethnic groups are equal, that there is no racism with Indonesian society. This kind of discourse of racial equality was used to deny the claims of West Papua and prevent other Indonesians from immigrating there.
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