@Scout (Dianne):

That "young children" you saw amongst the "asylum-seekers" include a young girl kidnapped from the care of her mother and grandmother by her divorced father.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/04/08/1553952.htm

Imagine if your little daughter was kidnapped from your care and brought to foreign country where you'll never be able to see her again. Now the mother and grandmother are demanding Australia to return the little girl. I hope Indonesian govt fully backed the efforts of these two women.

Perhaps they do not really care about the wellbeing of the child, PTBI. I've just read what happened to Abiriginal children in their land! What cruelty it is!
More Indonesians should learn about how the white in Australia treated the Aborigines in their own land. I hope Indonesian media also will educate Indonesians on this, just as Australians media 'educate' their readers about Papuans.

I read another news about that Paulus Samkakay who failed to reach Australia and end-up in PNG instead. His mother did not know why he wanted to go to Australia, his co-worker said he did not show-up for work for a month. And then the truth was revealed in the media. The report says that Paulus Samkakay tried to rape a little girl, but the girl escape and reported that to her father, and the father made a report to the police. So Paulus just wanted to run from a criminal case!
Here is the link, but the report also says Paulus was among the 42 asylum seekers while he's not.
http://www.liputan6.com/view/7,120925,1,0,1144981369.html

By the way, how many of the Aborigines who have become a leader in Australia (PM, minister etc}?

@Proud to be Indonesian and others
The story of little Anike/Anneke Wanggai is really heartbreaking.
http://www.liputan6.com/view/7,120761,1,0,1145019640.html
She's is too small to be dragged into all this. Poor little girl. The Jakarta Post says that according to Siti Pandera, Yunus was an abusive people who once hit Siti's thigh with a machete. He said Siti could not raise Annike unless they cut Annike into two, half for Siti, half for him! What kind of father would say such a thing!
It was Yunus's mother Persila who raised little Annike in Jayapura.
Siti was shocked and fainted when she saw on TV that her little daughter was among 42 Papuans granted visas in Australia. She asked Indonesian government to help her to bring Anike back to Indonesia. She even asked Papuan acting governer to help her to meet President SBY.

And now there is another shocking news. Siti Pandera disappeared just one day before departing to Jakarta! Her parents have reported this to the police.
Let's hope that Anike's mother will be found safe, that none including the rebels would ever harm her. Please pray for her.
What kind a story is this! What will happen to little Anike in Australia?
http://www.liputan6.com/view/1,121117,1,0,1145018383.html
http://www.liputan6.com/view/1,121128,1,0,1145020902.html

@Ningtyas:

Indeed, it is now clear that the 42 "asylum-seekers" are nothing but despicable criminals: child-kidnapper, wife-beater, paedophile, and child-molester.

Let us pray nothing bad happened to the mother who wants the young girl returned from Australia, as we know the barbarism and inhuman cruelty of separatists know no bounds.

You made few mistakes in your summary of history,

Jakarta's income is based on its colonial theft and murders, on its theft of Sumatra's & Borneo's oil, of Papua's gold & copper, and so forth. This is the reason it wants to hold on and will twist and tell any lie to try to prolong its colonial abuses.

Indonesia attempted air and naval invasions of West Papua in 1961 and 1962 but failed when the unarmed Papuans arrested the paratroopers and ask the UN to return Indonesian sailors to Java. Its military only go into West Papua after their business partners at Bechtel Inc. and Freeport Sulphur arranged for John Kennedy to be told lies about Jakarta's blackmail that it would become a communist State unless Washington forced the Netherlands to surrender West Papua to Indonesian colonial administration.

Also, the 1969 'Act of Free Choice' was only 'acknowledged' by the United Nations; both the 'Act' and Indonesia's claim of sovereignty to West Papua are illegal and unfounded claims.