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August marked one year since the racist attacks on West Papuan students in Surabaya that sparked a new West Papuan uprising. More than 100,000 people rose up against the racist violence and for West Papuan self-determination. In addition to several rallies in Jakarta, Papuans demonstrated (...)
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo must change the government’s approach in resolving the Papua problem. At the start of his first term in office, Widodo managed to offer a new hope in efforts to find a dignified solution in Papua. He granted amnesty to Papuan political prisoners and guaranteed the (...)
Jakarta – The public prosecutor has demanded that six Papuan activists each be sentenced to one year and five months in jail. The prosecutor said that the six defendants had been proven to have violated Article 106 of the Criminal Code (KUHP) in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph 1 of KUHP 1 (...)
In response to the crackdown on activists and protesters in West Papua, which has followed this attack, regional left organisations have issued the following joint statement. On August 17, Indonesian Independence Day, armed Indonesian police, soldiers and radical Islamic militia stormed a (...)
Jakarta — Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) spokesperson Surya Anta was arrested by police in Jakarta overnight.
After being taken to the Metro Jaya regional police headquarters (Mapolda), Anta was then transferred to the Mobile Brigade headquarters (Mako Brimob) in Kelapa Dua, (...)
Seven Papuan students and Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-West Papua) spokesperson Surya Anta were arrested by the Jakarta Police on Friday and Saturday and are currently being detained at the National Police’s Mobile Brigade (Mako Brimob) detention center in Depok, West Java. (...)
On Saturday, August 31, 2019 around 20.30, Surya Anta was arrested by plain-clothed police officers at Plaza Indonesia, Jakarta. He was then taken to Polda Metro Jaya (Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Regional Police).
One of the officers mentioned that Anta was accused of subversive act in (...)
In Indonesian West Papua, oil palm developments are routinely designed and implemented without the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous landowners.
With some 11.9 million hectares of oil palm plantations, Indonesia is the world’s top palm oil producer. As available arable land grows (...)
There is a certain part of me that does not want to write this. I fear letting other Papuans hear this would damage them the way knowing it did me.
Parts of it I am sure Papuans know, as I remember from being in a city surrounded by non-Papuans. It appears in the disdain in using drunkards as (...)
The Papua office of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI Papua) and the Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) have condemned the recent racist abuse of Papuan students in Surabaya, East Java, and have called on people to stop all racist behavior in the country.
“End all racist behavior, (...)
Around Aug. 17 every year, Indonesians brim with nationalism. This year, one of the nationalism-evoking events was the launch of Bumi Manusia, a film by Hanung Bramantyo adapted from Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s legendary novel of the same title, about a love story between a young Javanese hero (...)
Papuan students on Java Island have repeatedly become the target of intimidation by Islamist and nationalist groups as armed conflict between security forces and separatist groups in Papua escalates.
In the latest incident on Friday afternoon, scores of security forces along with civil (...)
50 years since the so-called Act of Free Choice, an independent West Papua is closer but still elusive.
This year marks 50 years since West Papua was officially incorporated into Indonesia via 1969’s ironically named Act of Free Choice, whereby less than 1 percent of Papuans were forced to vote (...)
KBR - July 19, 2019
Siti Sadida Hafsyah, Jakarta — Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) researcher Cahyo Pamungkas says that the Trans Papua Highway has yet to bring any benefits to the Papuan people.
“The benefits for indigenous people can’t be seen yet. So people ask who exactly is the road (...)
Independent human rights monitors are reporting that thousands of people have been displaced and healthcare facilities burned as a result of Indonesian military operations in Nduga, West Papua, according to the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) .
Indonesian military and Free (...)
US mining giant Freeport finally reaches terms on the state-forced divestment of the Grasberg mine, a $3.8 billion deal President Joko Widodo characterized as an ’historic moment’
It’s done. After two years of often fraught negotiations – and a last-minute environmental hiccup – the government and (...)
Indonesia’s easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua still suffer from a persisting separatist stigma and the government’s security-centered approach to addressing grievances in the region. Civil society movements including the dominant lay Moslem movement Nahdlatul Ulama, emphasize a (...)
A group of protesters from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) have demanded that West Papua be free from Indonesian colonialism.
The protesters gathered at the Pandang Istana Park at the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta to (...)
Indonesia is driving towards the Papua New Guinea border because of a recent discovery of huge mineral deposits in the Star Mountain regency just at the back of Tabubil Ok Tedi mine.
“Reportedly, there is gold, copper, coal, and thorium – a safer radioactive chemical than uranium,” says (...)
United Liberation Movement for West Papua chairperson Benny Wenda, whose website was one of several hacked.
The United Nations has declared May 3 as World Press Freedom Day. But one place where there is still no press freedom is Indonesian-occupied West Papua.
Local journalists are arrested (...)
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