Confrontation with Indonesia (1964-66)
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Advice from our Australian expert on Indonesia

• Indonesia has until recently been a colony

• Its leader, President Sukarno, is bitterly anti-colonial, and a nationalist

• He believes that Malaya is controlled by the British

• Indonesia has a strong communist party - Sukarno needs to keep them happy

• Indonesia has a strong army - Sukarno needs to keep them happy

• Indonesia has recently taken Dutch New Guinea by threat and bluff - it now shares a border with Papua-New Guinea, which is controlled by Australia.

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