Dewi Anwar Quotes (6 Quotes)

You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, and more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.

The problem with Papua is who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government

We do not want to provoke a frontal confrontation between the students and the military because if that happens, the whole society loses because it would only lead to more anarchical violence.

We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.

Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as too arrogant and too hectoring and beats Indonesia on the head, then I think there's going to be this nationalistic backlash.

I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been complaints that certain personnel in the U.N. seem to favor, for example, the pro-independence groups.