West Papua
"Hai Tanahku Papua" (O My Country, Papua)

Words by: Izaak Samuel Kijne (?)
Music by: Izaak Samuel Kijne
In use: 1961-1963 (regional anthem since 2003)

In 1961 the Netherlands set up a parliament in the colony of Netherlands New Guinea, responsible for preparing the territory for independence by the end of ten years. One thing the council approved was a national anthem to be used, "Hai Tanahku Papua", which had been written by a Dutch missionary back in the 1930s, and the anthem was officially used in the territory until the territory fell under Indonesian government control in 1963. From that time on, the anthem became illegal, however, in 2003 it became the anthem of the Indonesian region.

Special thanks to: Ben Cahoon for informing me of this anthem and for some of this information, and Paweł Ciupak for the MIDI.

See also: Indonesia.