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Recent events in Papua underscore the fact that there is no solution that is entirely free of risk for Jakarta. Instead, the choice is between separate sets of risks.
On 29 April, Mahfud MD, the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal, and Security Affairs, formally labelled the West Papua (...)
Since 1963, the Indonesian state has occupied West Papua against the will of its people with the full backing of Australia and the US. Despite decades of brutal repression, Papuans are still rising up to demand their national liberation, at home, in Indonesia and internationally. An interview (...)
Catholic priests in Papua have called for an end to violence in Papua and have requested that bishops give more serious attention to the issue for the sake of the safety of religious community members in Indonesia’s eastern-most provinces.
In a statement read out by Papuan Peace Network (JDP) (...)
Jakarta — Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) researcher Arif Nur Fikri has reported the group’s findings on human rights violations throughout 2020.
Kontras found 40 incidents of human rights violations in Papua between January and November 2020.
“Kontras recorded (...)
Jakarta—The fissure in relations between the West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation (TPNPB-OPM) and the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) began to sharpen in 2017.
This was revealed by TPNPB-OPM spokesperson Sebby Sambom after the organisation rejected a (...)
The armed conflict in West Papua’s central highlands continues to deteriorate, costing the lives of innocent civilians. The latest extra-judicial killing was reported from the Papuan regency of Puncak.
According to the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Desk of the Papuan Tabernacle (...)
The Ebamukai Solidarity Team for Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman repaid her scholarship to the Indonesian government on September 16.
Koman has been living in exile in Australia since last year. She has played a critical role in documenting Indonesian human rights abuses against (...)
Toyiban, Manokwari — Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto has approved a program to recruit 1,000 Special Autonomy non-commissioned officers (Bintara Otsus) which was proposed by the West Papua/Kasuari/XVIII Regional Military Command (Kodam).
Kodam Kasuari commander Major General Ali Hamdan Bogra (...)
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 (...)
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