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Exiled leader Benny Wenda presents smuggled petition to decolonisation committee but chair says Indonesian takeover of province is not on its agenda.
The UN’s decolonisation committee will not accept a petition signed by 1.8 million West Papuans calling for independence, saying West Papua’s (...)
Free West Papua Campaign has responded to Australia’s election to the United Nations Human Rights Committee by calling on the Australian government to cease supporting Indonesia’s brutal occupation of West Papua.
In a Facebook statement , FWPC said: “It has to break with the tradition of (...)
Exclusive: Document outlawed by Indonesia was ‘smuggled from one end of Papua to the other’ and signed by 70% of the population.
A petition banned by the Indonesian government, but bearing the signatures of 1.8 million West Papuans – more than 70% of the contested province’s population – has been (...)
JAYAPURA, SUARAPAPUA.com- Chairman of West Papua National Command (KNPB) Victor Yeimo asserted that the Indonesian government and its administration up to now prefer to save road projects in Papua land rather than save the lives of Papuans.
Victor F. Yeimo, ketua umum KNPB Pusat. (IST - SP) (...)
Press Release released yesterday during the World Indigenous Day.
Press Release
Indigenous people from Nakias Tagaepe and Ihalik villages, Wambon Tekamerob Indigenous Community, SKP KAMe, Sawit Watch, Yayasan PUSAKA, Papuan Voices, Belantara Papua, SKPKC Fransiskan Papua, Garda Papua, Suara (...)
The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) is a vast mega-project, a plan for over a million hectares of plantations and industrialised agriculture that threatens the people and environment across the southern part of West Papua. Indonesian and foreign companies have each claimed (...)
After two years occupying the Presidential Palace, Joko Widodo (“Jokowi”) has not been able to meet his promises to engage meaningfully with the people of Papua. Early on in his presidency he made a trip to Papua and released political prisoners but since then he has prioritised infrastructure (...)
How Papua’s Yerisiam people are fighting against palm oil expansion and protecting their last sacred sago forest.
‘The roof was woven by women. We only spent two days to finish it,’ Fitri Yoweni said while chewing betel nut.
After twenty years, the Yerisiam tribe finally decided to rebuild their (...)
Why have Jokowi’s promises to open up Indonesia’s “forbidden island” to journalists and rights monitors flunked?
On 20 December 2016, the Legal Aid Foundation for Indonesia Press (LBH Pers) staged a press conference. It highlighted censorship by The Indonesia Ministry of Information and (...)
Indonesia’s neo-colonial stranglehold on West Papua has seen massacres, media blackouts and widespread human rights abuses.
A coalition of activists and church groups have called on Indonesia to end the widespread, yet little known violence and oppression in West Papua and to allow (...)
Indonesian colonial police arrested 221 people on 1 December in three different cities, with 203 people arrested in Jakarta, four in Sentani, West Papua, and 14 people in the central Java city of Yogyakarta.
In Jakarta, a peaceful demonstration commemorating the anniversary of the birth of the (...)
Joint Statement 1 December 2016 Solidarity with the West Papua’s people struggle for self-determination We, the undersigned organisations, express our support to the struggle of the people of West Papua for self-determination. 1 December marks the West Papua’s Independence Day for Papuans (...)
TeleSUR spoke to Benny Wenda, an exiled West Papuan leader who explained his people’s ongoing struggle for independence against Indonesia and their plans for the future.
While today marks Papua New Guinea’s Independence from Australia, West Papua, a province on the same island continues its (...)
East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) conducted an exclusive interview with Zely Ariane of the #PapuaItuKita on creative ways they are raising issues involving West Papua in Indonesia.
What is #PapuaItuKita?
We established #PapuaItuKita (We Are Papua, PIK) in December 2015, not as (...)
Many of us were surprised but pleased when Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced early this month that the decades-long restriction on foreign journalists in Papua would be lifted.
Access to Papua for international press and observers has been a longstanding issue. It was not only raised (...)
Indonesian President Joko Widodo made his second presidential visit to Papua on 9th and 10th May. In Jayapura he made two small but welcome gestures, pardoning five long-term political prisoners and announcing that there would be no more restrictions on foreign journalists reporting from Papua. (...)
A 2-year-old girl chews on an areca nut, while a drunken man slumbers by the roadside that morning. A group of children walks to school barefooted in a village where proper housing is scarce, as are health care facilities and school buildings, and where infants are undernourished.
This is the (...)
In a move that will irk officials in Jakarta, a group of activists have spoken about the human rights situation in the West Papua and Papua provinces at the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights. Three activists, two of whom are Indonesian, were guest speakers at the committee’s (...)
This is a statement made by Zely Ariane, Coordinator for National Papua Solidarity (NAPAS), in a hearing on situation in West Papua organised by Subcommittee on Human Rights of European Parliament, in Brussels 23rd January 2014.
I speak on behalf of Indonesian civil society living outside (...)
Indigenous Papuans still fight for self-determination, more than 40 years after Indonesia acquired the territory in a sham ballot.
Indonesia officially acquired West Papua in 1969, after a sham ballot on independence in which only a handful of the local population were allowed to vote.
The (...)
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