ABSTRACT
On 15–16 April 1971 representatives of Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore met in London to revise provision for the external defence of the two South-East Asian states. A joint air defence council was established to manage an integrated air defence system. Agreement was reached also on deploying a joint Australian, New Zealand and United Kingdom ground force in Singapore and on an Australian air force contribution in Malaysia. Forum Demokrasi is the name of a discussion group with a political agenda established among a number of well-known Indonesian intellectuals in March 1991. Abdurrahman Wahid had refused to join this association on the ground that it would encourage sectarianism and religious intolerance. The Free Papua Movement is the name of an indigenous Melanesian insurgency in Irian Jaya, the western half of the island of New Guinea. Fretilin is an acronym derived from Frente Revolucionaria does Timor Leste Independente, Portuguese term for the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor.
