United Nations General Assembly Resolution A United Nations General Assembly resolution is a decision or declaration voted on by all member states of the United Nations in the United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly. General Assembly resolutions usually require a simple majority ...

491 was adopted on 28 September 1950 for the admission of

Republic of Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

to the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...

. Accordingly to the recommendation by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 86, two days before the 289th UN General Assembly meeting, in which 10 countries voted for the admission of Indonesia meanwhile China abstained from the voting. Indonesia became the 60th member of

until it withdrew in 1965 and established its own intergovernmental organization known as

CONEFO The Conference of the New Emerging Forces (CONEFO) was an intergovernmental organization that existed from 1965 to 1966. CONEFO was an attempt by President Sukarno of Indonesia to create a new bloc of "emerging countries" that would be an alterna ...

, and rejoined in 1966.

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Text of the UNGA Resolutions at undocs.org
* {{United Nations 05/491 1950 in Indonesia Indonesia and the United Nations

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