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, […]
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West Papua, represented by the ULMWP must be at the MSG table
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 […]
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A hard choice, but a simple one
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 […]
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Dutch journo attests to huge West Papuan support for MSG bid
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 […]
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Asia Pacific Greens support West Papua’s MSG membership and self-determination with a new resolution
Asia Pacific Greens support West Papua’s MSG membership and self-determination with a new resolution From Radio Zealand: The 3rd Congress of the Asia Pacific Greens Federation has adopted a resolution on the West Papuan self-determination struggle. The congress was held at the weekend in Silverstream, near New Zealand’s capital, and featured delegates from a range […]
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Research: The Dutch don’t know their own history
This article is originally written dutch and is tranlated with google. Research: The Dutch don’t know their own history Lift media ban Papua a farce Amsterdam, June 3, 2015 – Since last month, foreign journalists allowed to visit the Indonesian province of Papua again. Now it turns out that the lifting of the media ban […]
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Papuans and Jokowi are hostage to Indonesian politics
Indonesian President Joko Widodo recently announced the end of the decades-long restriction on foreign journalists in the provinces of Papua and West Papua, Indonesia’s territories in the island of New Guinea. While the president, popularly called Jokowi, says he is committed to human rights in the Papua provinces, the military and police continue to murder […]
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Resource Extraction in West Papua
West Papua is one of the last great frontier wildernesses. Over 250 distinct indigenous communities live amongst spectacular rainforests, mountains and coral ecosystems. But all is not well on the world’s second largest island. Source: Resource Extraction in West Papua · Maptia
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Photos from the pro MSG rallies and arrests in West Papua on 28th May
On 30th May rallies were held all over West Papua to show support for West Papua joining the subregional Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) through the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP). Up to 82 West Papuans were arrested and many were tortured by the Indonesian authorities. For more information, please see the Free West […]
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Kareni: West Papuan Governors represent Indonesia not Melanesians
A prominent West Papuan independence advocate says the plan by PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill to have governors from Indonesia’s Papuan provinces represented at the Melanesian Spearhead Group is deeply flawed. Read full article and listen to the interview here
