@Kvasir:

LOL, one of Indonesia's biggest source of revenue came from West Papua and Aceh. PT Freeport Indonesia who ran the largest gold and copper mine in Papua, paid $ 1 billion per year in taxes only, making it the biggest taxpayer in Indonesia. Meanwhile, transmigration to the low-populated West Papua greatly help relieve overpopulation in some islands such as Java and Sulawesi. The farmlands established by these transmigrants now serve as rice-bowl for Eastern Indonesia. Indonesia never see West Papua or Aceh as burden, but as gift from God that we'll take care very well like a baby.

@saintfletcher:

Indeed, your wisdom is unlimited. It is true West Papua belongs to Indonesia as determined by UN, and there is nothing foreign Australia can do about that. Indeed, Australia's involvement in Iraq only reinforces its image as insignificant stooge of USA. Asian countries like Indonesia generally never bothers with Australia because they know if they have good relation with USA, Australia the US stooge will quickly follow suit.

@Kvasir:

LOL, the only people enjoying a "schadenfraude" are Indonesians, we are enjoying the spectacle of East Timor falling into abyss, while seeing incompetent Australia hopelessly burdened financially and militarily by this failed state without any exit.

PTBI - Mmmm...pillaging Papua of gold and other resources, using it as Indonesia's ricebowl, providing lebensraum for Javanese from their overpopulated slums - sounds to me like nothing other than OLD-FASHIONED COLONIALISM. You've really put your foot in your mouth now...to modern Western ears your words are just shocking. Your country ought to be ashamed of itself. Just like England bleeding Ireland dry, just like Japan "advancing" into China or Hitler subjugating Slavs to make room for the German master-race. You really have a very thin grasp on history. Obviously the effects of too much propaganda from the Indonesian Ministry of Truth...

Saintfletcher, if you knew that your neighbour was brutalising his wife and kids would you keep silent? Would you turn her away and tell her to sob miserably somewhere else? Would you reinforce her lack of confidence by telling her that this is the best she can get out of life? Would you send her back outside because the brute was yelling for her return?

The fact is that a neighbours brutality diminishes everyone. The most fearful wound of all is an amputated spirit.

@Kvasir:

LOL, the only colony left in Asia-Pacific area is Australia, where white squatters have barbarically committed genocide against Aborigines and have stolen their land without permission. There is indeed one solution to forever crush old-style COLONIALISM from the region: for whites to RETURN AUSTRALIA TO ABORIGINES NOW!

@Perseus:

Indeed Indonesia cannot stay quiet while the brute whites barbarically torture and abuse its Aboriginal population. Indonesia as member of UN Human Rights Council will watch and scrutinise the white Australians to protect Aboriginals from further human rights violations in the hands of genocidal white Australians.

PTBI - We look forward to the day when Papuans expel the Indonesian colonial invader from the island of New Guinea. Indonesia is an illegitimate state and an artificial construct that has no right to exist. Island by island, your country will unravel, having already started with East Timor. I must say it will give me great pleasure to watch it go down. History has never been kind to multi-ethnic empires. Although I must say I have zero sympathy for the Acehnese...you may keep them.