ABSTRACT
On August 15, 1962 at the United Nations Headquarters, Dutch and Indonesian representatives signed an Agreement to transfer the administration of Western New Guinea to Djakarta after an interim phase of international control. In contrast to Java, Sumatra, and Bali, New Guinea pulled on the purse-strings rather than the heart-strings of the Dutch, who will presently be spared the fairly considerable outlays in financial and human resources required to administer this primitive holding. The New Guinea Agreement provides for the principle of self-determination minimized in Dutch arguments at the R.T.C. but which became the chief asset in their counter-offensive of the 1950's. For decades the Papuans have been accustomed to Dutch administration, education, and attitudes, while being carefully insulated from Indonesian contacts. The Indonesians have accused the Dutch of brainwashing the Papuan population for their own purposes; the charge is now being returned by the Dutch against their accusers.
