Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia, 2018, p.189-212
2018
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Waiting for the End in Biak: Violence, Order, and a Flag Raising
- Ist Teil von
- Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia, 2018, p.189-212
- Ort / Verlag
- Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2018
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- On July 6, 1998, just before dawn, soldiers opened fire on a group of some two hundred demonstrators, in Biak City, on Biak Island, in Biak-Numfor Regency, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya.² For four days, the demonstrators had been guarding a flag that flew on top of a water tower between the main market and the port. They had raised the flag before dawn on July 2. Later that morning, at an open forum, their leader, a young civil servant named Philip Karma, read an oath of allegiance to West Papua, the name of the sovereign nation that
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 087727729X, 9780877277293DOI: 10.7591/9781501719042-008Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_7591_9781501719042_008
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anthropology, Applied sciences, Asian studies, Behavioral sciences, Biological sciences, Biological taxonomies, Biology, Clans, Communication systems, Communications technology, Cosmological philosophy, Digital communication systems, Ethnography, Ethnology, Group identity, Human behavior, Human rights, Human societies, Internet, Jurisprudence, Karma, Law, Metaphysical cosmology, Metaphysics, National identity, Nationalism, Natural law, Natural rights, New order, New taxa, Philosophy, Philosophy of law, Political movements, Political science, Political sociology, Psychology, Separatism, Social activism, Social protests, Social psychology, Social structures, Sociology, South Asian studies, Taxa, Technology, Violence