New Guinea

New Guinea ( Indonesian : Pulau Irian) is an island consisting of a western Indonesian part ( Papua, formerly Irian Jaya , and West Papua ), and an eastern part formed by the constitutional monarchy, Papua New Guinea , which also further comprises many islands to the east. The island has an area of 786,000 square kilometers afterGreenland, the largest island in the world .

Dutch New Guinea [ edit ]
After the war of independence of Indonesia between 1945 and 1949 made ​​the western part of New Guinea in 1962 as Dutch New Guinea is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and was the last remnant of the Dutch colonies in the region. In 1956 showed the Dutch colonial authority the Obano uprising in the Exchange Lakesprecipitation by the Marine Corps . It fell more than 100 deaths.

During the administration of US President John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Indonesia intensified its campaign to annex New Guinea. The United States and the United Nations exerted increasing pressure on the Netherlands to admit it.

In response to the activity of armed Indonesian infiltrators and the threat of an Indonesian invasion sent Netherlands in 1962, nearly 10,000 troops to Dutch New Guinea.Eventually the matter was resolved by diplomatic consultation. The American diplomat Ellsworth Bunker designed a peace agreement on August 15, 1962 in New York was signed by the Netherlands, Indonesia and the United Nations ( New York Convention ).