West Irian Voting Plan Approved
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DJAKARTA, February 25. The United Nations and the Netherlands have approved the way in which Indonesia will carry out the forthcoming plebiscite in West Irian, to decide whether ths former Dutch territory will stay in the Indonesian Republic.
Meanwhile, members of Parliament from West Irian have submitted a resolution to the Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs (MajorGeneral Amir Machmud) stating that the territory will never leave Indonesia.. The Indonesian Minister of Information (Air Vice-Mar-shal Budiardjo) has an-
nounced that the plebiscite will be carried out before August 17 on the basis of one vote for every 800 people; the principle of one vote for each of the 800,000 inhabitants of West Irian cannot be implemented because of the difficult terrain and lack of communications, he says.
A West Irian student today called on the Indonesian Government to carry out the act of free choice properly, “for the sake of Indonesia’s good name.” Edward Alex Suruan, aged 29, who is studying at Padjadparan University, in Bandung, West Java, said the people of West Irian needed salt, clothes and matches, not luxury cars and buildings.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31923, 26 February 1969, Page 17
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