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Silas Papare: A Secret Agent and Bureaucrat in West Irian Who Fought the Dutch

Monday, August 14, 2023

Silas Papare helped the Allies fight against the Japanese in West Irian. He supported Indonesian independence because of conflict with the Netherlands.

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Silas Papare at a public gathering for the liberation of West Irian, June 23, 1955. National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia . tempo : 173222364920.

AFTER circling around Nau Island, Yapen Islands, West Irian, an American seaplane landed in the waters. Silas Papare, a nurse in the area who was fishing, immediately swam towards the plane.

An American soldier on the plane then took his rifle and aimed it at Silas. “I was pulled onto the plane,” said Silas in his diary in the book A Biography of National Heroes Marthin Indey and Silas Papare, published by the Department of

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