Analysis of United States’ Foreign Policy Towards Indonesia: From Freedom to Freeport in West Papua

Tiwi Gustria Ningsih, Beni Rudiawan, Dohar Sianturi

Abstract


West Papua officially is a province of Indonesia since 1969. Due to the politics conducted by the Indonesian Central Governments since the integration of the western half of New Guinea, resistance emerged against the Indonesian state. The objective of this research is to find out and analyze the foreign policy that has been carried out by the US to Indonesia, especially regarding West Papua. Behind those foreign policies, there must be an interest from US that have to be achieved. Therefore, this research was also conducted to analyze what interests might be behind the foreign policy. The purpose of this study was to analysis of United States’ Foreign Policy Towards Indonesia: From Freedom to Freeport in West papua. The writing method used is qualitative, where in this analysis, the writer does not make calculations. The type of research used by the research is descriptive explanative research. America has strong reasons to interfere with the status of West Irian strengthen its hegemony. America also has more lucrative ambitions in this matter, namely the alleged enormous gold and precious minerals in Papua.

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United States, West Papua, Foreign Policy, USAID, Freeport

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v36.2.4989

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