By Dr. George J. Aditjondro
(University of Newcastle, Australia)
Ladies and gentlemen,
In respect of the original inhabitants of this country, let me express the following greeting to you:
'Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou korua'
IT is indeed an honour to be invited for the third time to this lovely country of the long white cloud, Aotearoa. Therefore, allow me to express my gratitude to the following friends for organizing this conference and inviting me to speak: Maire Leadbeater and her colleagues from the Indonesian Human Rights Committee (IHRC), Murray Horton and his comrades from Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA), Dr Xin Chen from the New Zealand Asia Institute (NZAI), and my old friends, Dr Tim Behrend and Saut Situmorang from the Indonesian Section of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Auckland.
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