Ho Trouble Expected During United Nations Rule of West New Guinea
Editor's Note The writer
ef the allowing dispatch cov
ered the recent transfer of the
administration of West New
Guinea from the Dutch to
United Nations authority.
By PATRICK J. KILLEN
Singapore -fl!PD- Officials
and observers on the humid
scene in West New Guinea ex
pect little or no trouble dur
ing the seven months of Unit
ed Nations rule.
Following the Oct. 1 a.
sumption of control by the
United Nations temporary
executive authority from the
Dutch, these trends became
clear;
The native Papuans are
prepared to give the United
Nations and later the Indones
ians a fair chance at guiding
their destiny.
Despite the mass exodus
of Dutch civil servants, law
and order has been maintain
ed and essential services con
tinue to operate.
United Nations rule will
be handled largely by Indo
nesians because of recruit
ment problems.
Choice Due in 1969
Under the Dutch-Indonesian
agreement of Aug. 15,
West New Guinea will be run
by UNTEA until May 1. 1963.
Indonesia will then govern
the territory until 1969 when
the Jakarta government is ob
ligated to give the 700,000 or
so Papuans their choice of
continued affiliation or inde
pendence. West New Guinea is a ter
ritory which perhaps only a
Papuan could love. It com
prises 151,000 square miles of
wild mountain, rain forests
and malarial coastal swamps
stretching in a southeast di
rection from the equator. Aus
tralia, currently eyeing Indo-
, nesia uneasily, . controls the
'eastern portion nf the island.
Indonesians Welcomed
I A backward land of small
' potential, it became an emo-
tional issue when the Dutch
held on to it as the last ves
tige of their once great West
Indies empire. Indonesia, heir
to the rest of the Dutch em
pire, demanded that "Irian
I Bharat'1 be brought into the
fold.
Largp numbers nf Indones
ians, led by youthful, smiling
Second Deputy Foreign Min
ister Sudjarwo Tjondrone
goro. began arriving only a
few hours after Dutch rule
ended. Papuans politely put
their spears away and wel-
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CP Couple Leave For Hong Kong
Central Point Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Kennedy Jr., 30S8
Old Stage road, Central Point,
planned to leave today for
Hong Kong, British Crown
colony, where lyennedy will
attend an annual Junior
Chamber International World
Congress from Nov. 4 to 11.
Kennedy is chairman of In
ternational relations for Ore
gon Junior Chambers of Commerce.
Between R0 and A 5 coun
tries of the free world will he
represented and about 100
persons from the United
States will attend. Another
Oregon couple, Mr. and Mi's.
Al RinRo, Gervais, will make
the trip.
The group will spend a
week in Japan and Formosa
before attending the congress
and will make the return trip
by way of Bangkok, Singa
pore, Manila, and Honolulu.
SECTION F MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1962 PAGES 1 to B
corned the Indonesians with
smiles and handshakes.
"Merdeka," an Indonesian
word for freedom, said the Pa
puans as they pumped the
hands of the blue-green uni
formed members of Indo
nesia's ' development b r 1
gade." The brigade, specially
trained for service in West
New Guinea, is expected to
form the backbone of the UN
TEA Civil Service.
As the two Asian groups
met, they bore little resem
blance. The Papuans were
frizzly-haired, almost black-
skinned Melonesians who
i looked more Negroid than As
' ian. The Indonesians were
sturdy small individuals with
copper colored skins.
The rub may come when
UNTEA departs and the
sharply" fluctuating Indone-
i slan Rupiah replaces the hard
Dutch New Guinea Guilder as
currency. Affluent Papuans,
used to Dutch beer and scores
of other imports, may find
their buying power drastical
ly cut, their shelves less full.
The United Nations, recog
nizing the problem, kept lo-
I ral business operating by
i guaranteeing the Guilder as
I the official currency. The
: move, welcomed by the local
population, only served to
point up Indonesian difficul
! ties.
J Desire to Help
I To continue the late but rel
I atively good start the Dutch
i made in developing the erri
tory, Indonesia must find for
eign exchange. The mnt oh
vious solution is for Jakarta
to ask the Dutch.
The prospect is not so im
bolievahlp as it sounds. Manv
Dutchmen hoped the end of
the West Irian dispute would
re-establish relations he' ween
the two countries. Many of
those who left the New Gui
nea capital of Hnllandia ap
peared to have a sincere de
sire to help in the continued
development of the territory.
Despite their differences,
the two rountries maintain a
peculiar "love-hale'' relation
ship. Outwardly there is mis
trust and acrimony. But indi
vidual Dutchmen like indivi
dual Indonesians and the re
verse presumably is true.
The Dutch must he given
credit for much of the ease
in transition to United Na
tions rule even though most
of them were on their way to
Holland at the time. Through
their earlier work in bringing
Papuan civil servants to rela
tive maturity, the sleepy tcrri-
I tory has gotten along so far
(without chaos or many dras-
tic changes.
j To be sure, it takes three
days to get a flat tire fixed
j and immigration officials are
nowhere in sight.
I But the lights are still on,
the inter-island enmmunica-
tions remain sporadically in
j tact and the juke box at the
1 Juliana Supermarket still
i plays twist records. There ap
j pears to be no shortages.
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