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Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesia1152009. The book has a special chapter on Papua, separate fromthe one on Indonesia. This publication appeared to present biasby separating Papua from Indonesia and putting West Papuawithin the cluster of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacificgroup. This type of publication could lead to a misinterpretationof Papua that could provoke its secession from Indonesia.However, the Indigenous World 2013 publication has beengreatly improved. The previous misinterpretation of groupingPapua with Australia and New Zealand has been removed.Overexposure of one country%u2019s internal matters while neglectingthose of others may lead to misinterpretations about the motivesof such a publication. It seems that no country in the world isfree from human rights violations, especially in dealing with itsindigenous population.Australian Aborigines, for example, continue to feelmisunderstood by white Australian politics. As Senator RachelSiewert of the Australian Greens Party said, %u201cRacialdiscrimination is embedded in the Australian Constitution andcontinues to be enacted in the laws and policies of our statesand territories.%u201dSimilarly, although the Nordic countries of Norway,Denmark, Sweden, and Finland are among the wealthiest andmost developed countries in the world, they are also facingserious concerns regarding their local indigenous peoples.According to the UN, the Sami people continue to bemarginalized, suffering from serious health concerns, extremepoverty, and hunger.Finally, in the multidimensional crisis in the early part ofIndonesia%u2019s transition to democracy, many respectedinternational academic analysts predicted a gloom and doom