Okaba

Okaba is a coastal town in Merauke Regency, South Papua, Indonesia.

==History== 250px|thumb|left|Dutch officers in front of their quarters in Okaba, somewhere between 1907 and 1915 The village was established as a government post and a police station in 1907 by the Dutch, not long after the foundation of Merauke in 1902. The goal was to stop Marind-anim headhunting raids in the area. In July 1910, a catholic mission was founded there by the Dutch priest Jos van der Kolk. Although the mission shut down in 1915, it reopened in 1922, under the supervision of a Belgian priest, Peter Vertenten, who had previously worked in Belgian Congo. In August 1943, a small outpost of the Australian army under the command of an infantry sergeant was established there, as part of the defense of Merauke against a possible Japanese invasion. After the Dutch withdrawal from Western New Guinea in 1962, it became part of Indonesia.