Pacific Island Countries Supporting Papua to Separate fromIndonesia: Where Does the U.S. Stand?

Abstract

Pacific Island Countries, such as Vanuatu, the
Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu, have been
supporting the separatist movement in Papua,
Indonesia. There have been suspicions that great
power countries, for example the U.S., are behind
them. The research finds out that the U.S. is
against the idea of separating Papua from
Indonesia because the entailed instability and
insecurity will badly affect its mining business in
Papua, represented by Freeport. However, by
using foreign policy and proxy war framework,
this research manages to explain that there is a
possibility of a proxy war between the U.S. and
China for dominance in the Pacific Islands Region.
They ram Indonesia against Pacific Island
Countries, with the separatism issue of Papua as
the focal point. This research uses a qualitative
method, which is suitable for analyzing social and
political phenomena. The research data is
obtained from secondary data, such as research
reports, articles, and publications about the
separatism movement in Papua