What are the underlying drivers of policies in the Solomons, West Papua and East Timor?
GLOBALISM driven by economic fundamentalism
West Papua – Freeport and forestry
East Timor – Oil
Solomons – Tourism and forestry.
All this is overlaid with COLONIALISM
Driven by nationalism and racism.
Indonesian Colonialism is partly driven by
Javanese nationalism
Military control neurosis
Economic expansionism
& the need to rid in Java of its surplus population – Transmigration
Add Racism (sometimes expressed as a sense of superiority)
And you are cooking with gas.
Components of Australian Colonialism
Fear of instability
Economic expansionism
Military control neurosis
& RACISM.
East Timor’s troubles 2004
Local bourgeois elements combined with
The Catholic church attempting to destabilise what they see as a socialist government – part of the anti-Christ.
Other players are the pro-Indonesian Militias and possible TNI clandestine forces.
Also there are poor and unemployed opportunists.
A Basic Income would help
http://www.basicincome.qut.edu.au/archive/
search for article by Julie Wark
Sustainability
In all three countries but particularly West Papua and the Solomons there is a pressing need to attempt to ensure sustainability – even if it is only at subsistence level it would be better than Chaos.
The Forests & the fishing grounds must be protected
Transmigration and military control needs to be ended.
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