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WI West Papua had become an independent state, as the Dutch initially desired, instead of being de facto annexed into Indonesia thru the farcical 'Act of Free Choice' in 1969 ? How would the existence of another independent non-Javanese-dominated new country in the archipelago area have impacted on East Timor (still under Portuguese control to 1975) plus other still restive parts of Indonesia ?
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