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...inside Australian waters to flee. Instead, the Customs crew thinks, it will try to hide behind large rocks or in mosquito-infested mangroves. The boat's presence is unquestionably illegal. But the foreign fishers have few alternatives. Almost all of them are from Merauke, a village in Indonesia's Irian Jaya, about 145 nautical mi. (270 km) to the northwest. If they can avoid detection, the men could bring home a spectacular catch of shark fin (which can sell for $A200 a kg) and retire. The court houses and lock-ups on Thursday Island and in the Arnhem Land town...
...first time I met Norman Lewis, the great intrepid traveler of our times was rubbing his hands together. He was already well into his 80s, but he was about to depart for a part of Irian Jaya where the last Western visitors-missionaries-had, he said, been eaten. "I can't wait to go and hear more about that great evangelical feast," he said, mixing, as he often did, drollness with real spirit...
...fire to opposition headquarters. The Commercial Farmers? Union was considering a legal challenge to a new presidential decree evicting more than 4,000 white farmers from their land. INDONESIA Mysterious Death The unexplained murder of separatist leader Theys Eluay sparked unrest in the province of Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, as suspicion grew of involvement by the Indonesian military. The chairman of the Papuan Presidium Council was found dead in his crashed car after being kidnapped on his way home. Eluay had recently rejected an Indonesian offer to grant the province a degree of autonomy though not full independence...
...Ihab Khazaal, an Iraqi physician caught by Indonesian police a year ago aboard a leaky boat off Irian Jaya, has come to Jakarta to help the traumatized survivors. "I would never think of going aboard a boat again," says Ihab, who has been granted refugee status by the U.N. and is now waiting for an offer of asylum. In the grimy Jakarta hotel that houses last week's survivors, men still in torn, dirty clothes stand alone or in small groups, staring dazedly at the ground or weeping quietly. Speaking on the hotel's single phone, a woman is rocking...
...island of Java, which is about the size of California, with a population of 100 million Muslims. Stretching east is an archipelago with hundreds of small to medium-sized islands, islands with names like Sumba, Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, Komodo, the legendary Spice Islands, Timor, and the island of Irian Jaya (New Guinea). These areas have mixed populations of Muslims, Christians, and animists. Virtually every inhabited island in Indonesia has its own language and unique history...