Dewi Anwar

The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?

The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?

Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as read more

Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as too arrogant and too hectoring and beats Indonesia on the head, then I think there's going to be this nationalistic backlash.

We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it read more

We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.

I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been read more

I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been complaints that certain personnel in the U.N. seem to favor, for example, the pro-independence groups.

You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings read more

You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.