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The USA has significan contribution on negotiation of West Papua dispute. President John F. Kennedy changed the USA policy in West Papua dispute from passive neutral policy into active mediation policy. By this policy the USA and UNO supported and managed negotiations between Dutch and Indonesia. As a result, the representative of the countries signed the New York Agreement in 1962. The role of the USA diplomacy on the negotiation of West Papua dispute connecting with its interest in preventing communism in Indonesia. In case, America problem is how to eliminate communist influence in Indonesia. In connecting with the problem, the dissertasion has two research questions that what is the background of active mediation policy and how is the process of mediation diplomacy in West Papua dispute. The dissertasion would like to describe and analyse the negotiations process between Dutch and Indonesia in Middleburg, the USA. The negotiations process have inportant value in Indonesia and America diplomacy history. These will give informations in West Papua history-especially it was looked from the USA perspective. The dissertasion used historical methods in understanding America diplomacy in relationship with negotiation on West Papua dispute. The dissertasion produced conclusions that the USA diplomacy in West Papua dispute has relationship with containment policy in Cold War. The USA and UNO have great contribution to West Papua negotiation and New York Agreement. Consequently, they have moral obligations to West Papua. Their Intervention into West Papua problem is something possible in the future when Indonesia can not solve social dan political problems in there. It should be anticipated by great anttention to West Papua. |
