United Nations General Assembly Resolution 491 (V)

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 491 was adopted on 28 September 1950 for the admission of Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations. 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.

UN General Assembly Resolution 491
Indonesia in the 50s
Date	28 September 1950
Code	A/RES/491 (Document)
Subject	Admission of Indonesia to the United Nations
Result	Adopted

Indonesia became the 60th member of United Nations until it withdrew in 1965 and established its own intergovernmental organization known as CONEFO, and rejoined in 1966.

See also

• Indonesia and the United Nations
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 86

References

• Text of the UNGA Resolutions at undocs.org
• Redfern, William (2010), Sukarno's Guided Democracy and the Takeovers of Foreign Companies in Indonesia in the 1960s (PDF), Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States: University of Michigan