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 General Assembly. General Assembly resolutions usually require a simple majority (50 percent of all votes plus o ...

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 and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Ind ...

to the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

. Accordingly to the recommendation by the

United Nations Security Council Resolution 86 United Nations United Nations Security Council Resolution, Security Council Resolution 86, adopted on September 26, 1950, having found that the Indonesia, Republic of Indonesia was a peace-loving State which fulfilled the conditions laid down in A ...

, 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 effort by President Sukarno of Indonesia to create a new bloc of "emerging countries" that would be an alternative power centre to the United Nations and to the "old-established forces"— ...

, and rejoined in 1966.

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Text of the UNGA Resolutions at undocs.org
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