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Indonesia is a product of 350 years of Dutch colonialism. For the sake of foreign economic interests, different peoples were forced to coexist under one authority. Little changed during more than 30 years of the Suharto regime. Out of economic self-interest, Europe, the United States and Australia wanted to remain on a friendly footing with the Indonesian regime, so that their companies could benefit from the exploitation of natural resources and from the low cost of labour. A Dutch rapporteur is now starting her proposal by emphasising that the European Parliament should recognise the sovereignty and integrity of the Indonesian borders. The PRD, the left opposition party, which is in contact with my party, the Dutch Socialist Party, is taking a more balanced view. It, too, would prefer Indonesia to remain one country, but it denounces the state violence which is deployed time and again to this end against the peoples of Aceh, the Moluccas and Western Papua. Following the wave of democratisation, the power of the army, authoritarian rulers and large companies in Indonesia is once again on the increase. The murder of the Dutch journalist, Sander Thoenes, on East Timor, occupied by Indonesia at the time, remains unsolved. Mrs Maij-Weggen’s conclusions are too optimistic and too much geared towards serving economic interests."@en1
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