The FRWP Open Day on 19 September 2021 featured Dr Greg Poulgrain talking about his 2020 book JFK vs Allen Dulles : Battleground Indonesia; Prime Minister Edison Waromi from the West Papua Transitional Government interviewed by Peter Woods in a live zoom-cross from Jayapura; and First Nations Elder Herb Patten playing John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ on a Eucalyptus gum leaf. The day concluded with Dr Joe Toscano’s World Famous Auction for the West Papua Rent Collective. The day was dedicated to the memory of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld (1953-1961) who was assassinated three days before the 1961 UN General Assembly where he planned to introduce his Decolonisation Program for West Papua. Readers of this web entry are invited to peruse the [extra] valuable notes, documents and interviews.
GREG POULGRAIN’S ‘JFK vs ALLEN DULLES: BATTLEGROUND INDONESIA’ unravels CIA Director Allen Dulles’ Indonesia strategy of the Cold War. It is the culmination of forty years of intense research and hundreds of interviews. American scholar George Kahin, one of the most recognised on modern Indonesia, believed the ground-breaking account ‘changes our historical perspective on this region’. The foreword is by Oliver Stone—whose JFK revisited: through the looking glass premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival—and there is a comprehensive afterword by the indefatigable Kennedy researcher James DiEugenio.
In his presentation on 21 September 2021 CAST A COLD EYE: ALLEN DULLES’ INTEREST IN INDONESIA (FORMERLY NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES) Dr Poulgrain outlined why and how CIA Director Allen Dulles orchestrated and executed such a list of monstrous crimes—including the assassination of UN Sec-General Dag Hammarskjöld and consequent denial of West Papua’s Decolonisation Program; Indonesia’s usurpation of the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Netherlands New Guinea; the overthrow of Indonesian President Sukarno by CIA-approved General Suharto; the massacre of more than a million Indonesian ‘communists’ (rice farmers) that drove a wedge between China and the USSR); Freeport’s acquisition of mining rights in West Papua to the world’s richest gold-and-copper field in the world.
‘Cast a Cold Eye: Allen Dulles’ interest in Indonesia-formerly Netherlands East Indies’ (32 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0p728XpK4
‘Cast a Cold Eye: Allen Dulles’ interest in Indonesia-formerly Netherlands East Indies’ (21 x PPT)
Cast a Cold Eye, Greg Poulgrain
PRIME MINISTER EDISON WAROMI, WEST PAPUA TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT (31 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BT754Ju9So
SUMMARY On 15 July 2021 Jakarta passed its 3rd Autonomy Bill for West Papua. The first was in 1969, the second in 2001, this one is for 2021—41. Jakarta says Autonomy is the way to reduce conflict, but LIPI—the government’s research centre—has investigated West Papua four times: on the history of Integration, on the marginalisation of West Papuans, the third about Failed Development, the fourth on Human Rights Violations. Each report advises Jakarta to negotiate with West Papuan political leaders, but Jakarta claims it can’t because “too many tribes, too many leaders, and too many organisations”.
The WP Transitional Government is now well supported (even by early Papuan critics), with the right leaders and a clear agenda to negotiate with Indonesia—about the core of the problem, which is political—under a third party like the United Nations. It is developing green policies and socialising its constitution. It is recognised by the Pacific Islands Forum and the African Caribbean Pacific Group, with the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Poland now part of the 85 UN member-states pushing Indonesia to allow the UN Fact-Finding Mission it agreed in 2017 but has denied entry to ever since.
Meantime in West Papua the Indonesian government ignores the needs of its medical clinics in Jayapura, Manokwari and Timika that have no oxygen and no more beds, with very sick people dying of COVID-19 in tents. Indeed, two generals arrived last week to talk about the Indonesian National Games (PON) in West Papua in October 2021 and the Para-Indonesian National Games in November.
There is no solution to be found in Integration, or Development, or Human Rights. The problem is political, which began with the New York Agreement of 1962 when Indonesia and the United Nations misjudged the West Papuans. They thought we would become Indonesian. They never expected that sixty years later we would still be fighting to uphold and defend our Melanesian dignity, sovereignty, liberty, based on international law and legal rights.
Q&A led by Chris Lynch from the West Papua Office-Docklands (18 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW8gADHV8fI
HERB PATTEN, FIRST NATIONS ELDER, GUM-LEAF VIRTUOSO, PLAYING ‘IMAGINE’
Uncle Herb is of the Ganaikurnai tribe (traditional owners of Gippsland), Yorta Yorta Nation (Murray River, Shepparton) and the Wiradjuri (Macquarie, Lachlan and Murrumbidgee rivers). His gum leaf compositions–whether birdsong, jazz, country–in artistic venues or on the steps of the Flinders St Railway Station, are heralded by kids, mums and dads, and professional musicians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXr3BMpBeaQ
DR JOE TOSCANO, WEST PAPUA RENT COLLECTIVE
Dr Toscano outlines how Australians’ support of the Federal Republic of West Papua office in Docklands is radical innovative activism that serves the short- and long-term interests of our nearest neighbour’s pursuit of self-determination and independence.
https://youtu.be/Xtfp8nnNqyE
EXTRA NOTES, DOCUMENTS, INTERVIEWS
1. Greg Poulgrain’s notes on Allen Dulles and Dag Hammarskjöld (PDF, 12xA4)
Greg Poulgrain, Hammarskjold and Dulles
2. Two reviews of ‘JFK vs Allen Dulles:Battleground Indonesia’
Dr Ed Curtin, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (A4x5, PDF)
Ed Curtin, Review, Poulgrain 2020
Louise Byrne, FRWP Womens Office, Docklands (1xA4, PDF)
JFK vs Allen Dulles, Review, Louise Byrne
3. Two media Interviews with Greg Poulgrain
3CR Radio, Radical Australia with Joe Toscano, 1 September 2021
https://audio.3cr.org.au/3cr/radical-australia/2021/09/01/0600/202109010600_radical-australia_64.mp3
ABC Radio National, Late Night Live with Philip Adams, 23 September 2021
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/jfk,-sukarno-and-dulles-and-socially-engaged-art/13555086
4. Biography of Edison Waromi (PDF, 9xA4)
Edison Waromi, Biography, PDF, 19 Sept 2021
5. Herb Patten has five permanent visual art works in the Art Gallery of Victoria 
6. Dag Hammarskjöld’s Decolonisation program for West Papua
Dag Hammarskjold, Open Day 19 Sep 2021
