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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4311968, member: 2844&quot;]The former name is West Irian.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Jaya means victory in Indonesian, it was added after the Indonesians invaded West Irian. It is a political name, meant to emphasize neo-colonialism.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Papuas had been working towards independence from the Dutch. The Java-centric Indonesian republic had just as little to do with West Irian as the Dutch had. </p><p>To the Papuas, and to most of the world, the name continued to be West Irian. A new colonial power simply replaced the old, and they lost any chance of the independence they deserved.</p><p>The Dutch on their part, had left independence too late. As usual.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like Indonesia, but that doesn&#039;t mean I agree with any neo-colonialism. I know families of Papuas who fled to the Netherlands after the &#039;jaya&#039;, and will never use that word in relation to their country.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Netherlands: Julia Jouwe with the Morning Star flag her grandfather, Papua politician Nicolaas Jouwe, designed for the independent republic:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages0.persgroep.net%2Frcs%2FuWX5iOuXc_InUqYvaVWnlcfsdOs%2Fdiocontent%2F174210558%2F_fitwidth%2F694%2F%3FappId%3D21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f%26quality%3D0.8&amp;sp=1632056980Te7a12284f151dde3cd69ac76d18e00e729256e6db0a7ddcd62ec53ce17cc0395" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And on Vanuatu (and elsewhere):</p><p><a href="https://www.ulmwp.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ulmwp.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ulmwp.org/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, according to Javanese myth, the invasion of West Irian was revenged by Loro Kidul, the Queen of the South Sea. She turned her army, which had been summoned in ritual by Sukarno, into rats that ate the crops on Java and caused a famine. Needless to say, even the Javanese weren&#039;t too happy with events.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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