Article – West Papua Media Alerts

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Article – West Papua Media Alerts

On a recent trip to East Timor, while talking to fishermen on Areia Branca Beach, hanging out with taxi drivers, getting lost cycling in Dili with its new street names, catching up with friends working for the United Nations there, having dinner with … Read more »

Article – West Papua Media Alerts

On a recent trip to East Timor, while talking to fishermen on Areia Branca Beach, hanging out with taxi drivers, getting lost cycling in Dili with its new street names, catching up with friends working for the United Nations there, having dinner with … Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

The appointment and deployment of Major-General Mohammad Erwin Syafitri (former deputy chief of BAIS, Indonesia’s joint strategic intelligence agency) as commander of KODAM XVII Cenderawasih Papua is clear proof that the Land of Papua is still an area of … Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

You are invited to what is perhaps a unique exhibition featuring women of West Papua in their living response to the suppression of human rights and freedom under Indonesian occupation and military brutality over the past fifty years. Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

February 08, 2012 Manokwari. Police in Indonesia’s restive Papua region arrested a Czech tourist Wednesday for taking photos of a pro-independence demonstration, district police said. Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

February 06, 2012 The Jayapura administration is planning to require male residents to undergo circumcision in an effort to cut HIV/AIDS transmission rates in Papua. Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

A police officer from the Mobile Brigade, Brig. Ronald, was killed by unidentified gunmen while on a routine patrol in the area of PT Freeport Indonesia on Tuesday. Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. B. L Tobing said Ronald was on patrol with his team … Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

[This hand-written statement is signed by the five Papuans who went on trial in Jayapura on 30 January 2012, and is translated in full by Carmel Budiardjo, TAPOL] Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

WASHINGTON – The United States called on Indonesia to ensure due process and address grievances in the restive Papua region after a court indicted five activists for treason. The court in Indonesia, a nation which has warming relations with the United … Read more »