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International French Radio, RFI has released this 10 minute report on foreign journalists and media freedom in West Papua and how both are still effectively banned by the Indonesian government.   http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia…/20150705-press-freedom-papua Last year 2 French journalists were jailed by the Indonesian authorities just for reporting in West Papua. If Indonesia has nothing to hide in occupied […]

The situation in the Indonesian province of West Papua is similar to East Timor just before independence, a West Papuan activist has announced at a protest in Darwin. A group of about 60 people have erected a temporary hut embassy outside Parliament House, calling for West Papuan independence from Indonesia.   Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-06/papuan-rotesters-at-parliament-house-in-darwin/6597898

Free West Papua activists evicted After two days of demonstrating outside the parliament building in Northern Territory, Australia. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/08/west-papua-activists-evicted-from-northern-territory-parliament-grounds A group of West Papua activists has been evicted from the grounds of the Northern Territory Parliament House in Darwin after they erected a hut as an “embassy” and spent two days protesting against Indonesian human rights […]

New article from Australia. Please read. West Papuans face ignorance, corruption and racism from Jakarta. Indonesia claims there is “still a lot more land” in West Papua they can take and give to more Javanese transmigrants. Indonesia to divide West Papua into small provinces “for security reasons, to guard this ‘huge area’ against ‘foreign intervention”. […]

News from ABC Australia. West Papua formally recognised by Melanesia group. For the first time a coalition of West Papuan nationalist groups has been given formal diplomatic recognition after being admitted to a regional grouping of Melanesian countries. At its leaders summit in Solomon Islands the Melanesian Spearhead Group has decided to grant the United […]

Read more and take action> http://bit.ly/1KeLonP Thank you very much Amnesty International Australia for posting this and helping to shine a light on the Indoensian brutality in West Papua.

US STATE DEPARTMENT CONDEMNS INDONESIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN WEST PAPUA The US State Department has issued it’s 2014 report on Indonesia condemning it’s human rights violations in West Papua. From AsiaOne “The report mentioned a number of examples, including the 2013 killing of pro-independence campaigners at a prayer service and flag raising ceremony in Sorong, […]

The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) leaders must realise by now that the umbrella organisation, The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has the support of the West Papuan people in its bid for membership of the MSG. In the past month civil society groups in West Papuan have held rallies throughout West Papua in […]

No matter how we slice and dice the issue of West Papuan independence, it always comes down to this: Do the indigenous peoples of a distinct and discrete land mass have the democratic right to self-determination or not? The answer, according to international law and standards, is an unequivocal yes. Even a cursory examination of […]

People of West Papua want to join the MSG! News from New Zealand. Dutch journalist, who has been inside West Papua, attests to huge West Papuan support for MSG bid. Many West Papuan’s arrested by Indonesian security forces for supporting West Papua’s MSG Bid. This is the simple reason why Indonesia is so scared of […]