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, by MOTE Linda
The mining company PT Freeport Indonesia lies at the heart of oppression, dispossession, kidnapping, murder, marginalisation, exploitation, and impoverishment – all occurring atop natural wealth rightfully belonging to the Papuan people themselves. PT. Freeport Indonesia must be shut down. (…)
, by MOTE Linda
In our family’s economic life, we are facing great threats due to the National Strategic Project (PSN). Our main livelihoods have been completely displaced without a trace. “How can we plant cassava, taro, petatas, bananas, vegetables, fruits, and sago seeds if the forest is cleared?” complained (…)
, by ULIM Aida
Aida Ulim, Jayapura — The Women’s Coalition for the Defence of Human Rights in the Land of Papua held a silent action at the Cenderawasih University Monument in Abepura, Jayapura city, Papua province, on Maret 8. The action was held to commemorate International Women’s Day (IWD) and took up the (…)
, by Amnesty International Indonesia, JUBI
Jayapura — The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation or TPNPB-OPM has announced that all schools in Papua, especially in armed conflict areas, should go on strike for as long as the Indonesian Military (TNI) and Indonesian Police (Polri) use them as military posts.
The (…)
, by CNN Indonesia
Jakarta - The government plans to provide pardons or amnesty for around 44 thousand prisoners. One of the categories of prisoners who will receive amnesty are political prisoners related to Papua.
Human Rights Minister Natalius Pigai’s plan to provide amnesty for Papuan political prisoners (…)
, by BALOWSKI James, KELEN Theo
Theo Kelen, Jayapura — The Indonesian government is considered to not be serious about resolving the armed conflict in Papua. An approach of peaceful dialogue must continue to be encouraged as an effort to resolve the conflict in Papua, but the government has ignored this.
Commission for (…)
, by JUBI
Jayapura — Indonesian Human Rights Watch (Imparsial) says that military operations in the land of Papua only sacrifice civilians and create massive internal displacement.
According to Imparsial, large numbers of civilians from the villages of Bumbakon, Mimin, Oksop, Alutbakon, Oktumi, Atenor (…)
, by BALOWSKI James, ULIM Aida
Aida Ulim, Jayapura — The South Papua Student Concern Front held a free speech forum on Monday October 7 in Jayapura city, Papua, rejecting investment and deforestation of customary forests the Animha region of South Papua that the government want to transform into sugar cane and rice (…)
, by BALOWSKI James, CNBC Indonesia
Jakarta — Indigenous peoples from the Awyu tribe in South Papua and the Moi Sigin tribe from Southwest Papua along with environmental activists handed over a petition of support for the Awyu and Moi tribes containing 253,823 signatures to the Supreme Court (MA) on Monday June 22.
They also (…)
, by PABIKA Agus, Suara Papua
ULMWP thanks Papuan people for consistently supporting Victor Yeimo’s release
Jayapura — In his remarks welcoming Papua activist Victor Yeimo’s release from prison on Saturday September 23, United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Secretary Markus Haluk expressed his appreciation and (…)
, by Suara Papua
Jayapura - West Papua National Committee (KNPB) spokesperson Ones Suhuniap is asking Jayapura city police chief (Kapolresta) Senior Commissioner Victor Makbun to stop creating a commotion in the media about a planned thanksgiving meeting to welcome the release of Victor Yeimo.
According to (…)
, by CNN Indonesia
The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry has spoken out over allegations that the Indonesian delegation at the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders Summit in Port Vila tried to bribe and intimidate a Radio New Zealand (RNZ) journalist in late August.
Foreign Affairs Ministry Asia-Pacific (…)
, by LOKOBAL Onoy
Wamena — The Republic of Indonesia delegation who are taking part in the 22nd Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders Summit (KTT) in Port Vila, the capital city of Vanuatu, staged a “walk out” during a session on Wednesday August 23.
The reason for the walk out is not yet known but it (…)
, by EARLE Learo
This week, Indonesians commemorate their independence from Dutch colonialism, on August 17, 1945. West Papuans also commemorate their six-decade-long struggle for independence this week on August 15. This date marks 61 years since the Papuan people were betrayed by the international community on (…)
, by WIRYONO Singgih
Jakarta — The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has recorded that as of December 2022 as many as 60,642 civilians have been displaced — and 732 of these have died — as a consequence of the armed conflict between the TNI (Indonesian military) and the Free Papua (…)
Kupang — Papuan students from the Human Rights and Democracy Forum Alliance (Formasi) held a protest action in front of the Kupang Widya Mandira Catholic University campus in the Old City sub-district of Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), on Thursday December 1.
The scores of students, who (…)
, by GERRARD Douglas
Indonesia’s planned Trans-Papua highway will facilitate easier exploitation of West Papua’s resources by the occupying Indonesian regime – and more violence against the West Papuan people who resist it.
n September of last year, labourers returning to work on the Trans-Papua highway found that (…)
, by CNN Indonesia
Jakarta — The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation (TPNPB-OPM) has rejected peace talks with the government if it is only mediated by National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM). They are also asking President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to be prepared to sit down with them at (…)
Jakarta — Activist Haris Azhar has spoken out about the decision by police to declare him a suspect on charges of alleged defamation against Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.
Azhar says that he can indeed be physically imprisoned, but the truth (…)
, by SUHUNIAP Ones
The West Papua National Committee’s (KNPB) position with regard to the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) at the moment is one of obedience to organisational decisions.
The KNPB views the ULMWP as an inter-organisational coordinating body which supports the international (…)
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