INDONESIA: REBEL LEADER FROM WEST IRIAN ARRIVES TO SURRENDER AND MEET PRESIDENT SUHARTO.

Record ID: 565984

  • Title: INDONESIA: REBEL LEADER FROM WEST IRIAN ARRIVES TO SURRENDER AND MEET PRESIDENT SUHARTO.
  • Date: 12th January 1969
  • Summary: 1. SV MANDATJAN ARRIVING 0.07 2. SV PARTY ENTERING 0.11 3. SV INT PRESSMEN SEATED 0.14 4. SV MR. MALIK ADDRESSING PRESSMEN. 0.20 5. SV REPORTERS MAKING NOTES 0.22 6. SV MR. MALIK TALKING WITH MANDATJAN (2 SHOTS) 0.30 7. GV PRESSMEN 0.32 8. SV MANDATJAN ANSWERING QUESTION 0.36 9. SV PRESS AND OTHERS AROUND TABLE. 0.37 10. SV MALIK AND MANDATJAN 0.42 11. GV MALIK AND MANDATJAN SHAKING HANDS 0.46 12. GV THE MERDEKA PALACE. 0.49 13. SV GENERAL ASKARI AND MANDATJAN BEING GREETED BY PRESIDENT SUHARTO 0.53 14. SV MANDATJAN PRESENTS GIFTS OF WEST IRIAN BOW TO SUHARTO 1.01 15. SV SUHARTO PRESENTING GIFTS TO MANDATJAN (2 SHOTS) 1.17 16. SV THE TWO MEN SHAKE HANDS 1.22 Initials RM/VS/AB/LAD Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th January 1969 13:00
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  • Location: DJAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7DBKNY0BXNBQ8XGU50Q9KUVEQ
  • Story Text: LODEWIJK MANDATJAN -- AN AGED AND WRINKLED REBEL CHIEF OF ONE OF WEST IRIAN'S MOST WARLIKE TRIBES -- ARRIVED IN DJAKARTA ON TUESDAY TO MAKE PEACE WITH INDONESIA, AND MEET PRESIDENT SUHARTO. HE'S CHIEF OF THE ARFAK WARRIOR TRIBE WHICH FOUGHT THE INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES WITH BOWS AND ARROWS UNTIL THE RECENT SURRENDER OF ALL REBEL LEADERS IN WEST IRIAN, FORMERLY DUTCH WEST NEW GUINEA.

    MANDATJAN ARRIVED WEARING A BRAND NEW INDONESIAN ARMY MAJOR'S UNIFORM, GIVEN TO HIM THREE YEARS AGO BEFORE HE DECLARED WAR ON THE INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES IN WEST IRIAN. MANDATJAN LED HIS TRIBE-- WHICH COME FROM THE MANOKWARI AREA OF WEST IRIAN--AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN NEW GUINEA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. HE TOOK UP ARMS AGAIN IN 1965, THREE YEARS AFTER INDONESIA HAD TAKEN OVER THE TERRITORY FROM THE DUTCH.

    LATER THIS YEAR, INDONESIA IS DUE TO OFFER THE WEST IRIANESE PEOPLE SELF-DETERMINATION UNDER THE TERMS OF THE 1962 TAKEOVER AGREEMENT. THE SURRENDER OF THE REBEL LEADERS IS REGARDED IN DJANKARTA AS A TRIUMPH FOR THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT IN ITS DRIVE TO IMPROVE THE POLITICAL CLIMATE IN WEST IRIAN. MANDATJAN, WHO SEEMED RATHER ILL AT EASE IN HIS UNIFORM, WAS MET BY A BIG WELCOMING CROWD IN DJAKARTA -- THE FIRST CITY HE'S EVER SEEN.
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