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There is a history of anti-Chinese sentiment in Indonesia, but even taking that into consideration, the violence of 1998 was unusually extreme and virulent, attributed to the encouragement of the army and the Suharto regime.
Jemma Purdey's Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia, 1996–1999 (2006) examines large-scale violence of the kind exemplfieid by the 1998 ...
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You probably confused Papua New Guinea with West New Papua, a region that is indeed under Indonesian administration.
Papua New Guinea, on the other hand, was administrated by Australia from 1906 to 1975. It's north part was under control of the German Empire from 1884 to 1914, when it was surrendered to Australia. Papua New Guinea became self governing on ...
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The Wikipedia article says:
Although some PKI branches organised resistance and reprisal killings, most went passively to their deaths
Citing this reference I can not access:
McDonald (1980), p. 53; Friend (2003), p. 115.
McDonald, Hamish (1980). Suharto's Indonesia. Melbourne: Fontana Books. ISBN 0-00-635721-0.
Friend, T. (2003). ...
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