What the records say
- When
- Dec 1949 – Jul 1962
- Kind
- Territorial claim
- Coordinates
- 4.00° S, 138.00° E
- Region
- 5
- Claim resolution
- 13
- Claim violence
- 0
- Significance
- 7
- Significance index
- 2
- Significance state1
- 4
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West New Guinea dispute
International conflict
The West New Guinea dispute (1950–1962), also known as the West Irian dispute, was a diplomatic and political conflict between the Netherlands and Indonesia over the territory of Dutch New Guinea. While the Netherlands had ceded sovereignty over most of the Dutch East Indies to Indonesia on 27 December 1949 following an independence struggle, it retained control over its colony on the western half of New Guinea.
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The source
- ICOW Territorial Claims 1816–2001Issue Correlates of WarCorrelates of War: free use with citation