AWPA November -14 December 2020 update
A snapshot of events
Commemorating 1st December
Fifty-nine years after the Morning Star flag was flown for the first time officially beside the Dutch Tricolor West Papuans and their supporters around the world commemorated the first official flying of the Morning Star flag in 1961. In Indonesia itself, courageous West Papuans and their Indonesian supporters also held rallies to commemorate the historical event. Its tragic that 57 years after Indonesia took over administration of West Papua in 1963, the human rights situation in West Papua continuous to deteriorate with ongoing human rights abuses, extra-judicial killings, military operations and the jailing of political prisoners.
UN raises concerns
In a media statement (30 November) the UN raised concerns about killings in the provinces of Papua and West Papua
“We are disturbed by escalating violence over the past weeks and months in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua and the increased risk of renewed tension and violence”, Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said in a statement.
UN Geneva/Violaine Martin Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson with the UN human rights office, OHCHR (file photo).
AWPA also wrote to Foreign Minister Marise Payne concerning the situation in West Papua.
AWPA thanks the Inner West Council in Sydney for supporting the raising of the Morning Star Flag on its Leichhardt Town Hall on the 1st December for the eleventh year in a row .
Outside the Leichhardt Town Hall, Sydney on December 1. Photos: Peter Boyle
Supporters of West Papua's struggle for self-determination took part in a Morning Star flag-raising ceremony at Leichhardt Town Hall organised by the Australia West Papua Association. Every December 1, West Papuan people brave brutal repression by the Indonesian occupation forces to raise their national flag on their own land. So, all around the world on that day, the flag is raised in solidarity. More GLW photos from FBNew ‘Provisional Government’
A press release from the ULMWP on the 1st December,.
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) begins forming a new ‘Provisional Government’ in West Papua today (Tuesday December 1). The announcement marks an intensification of the struggle against Indonesia’s colonisation of the territory, ongoing since 1963. The new government-in-waiting aims to mobilise the people of West Papua to achieve a referendum on independence, after which it will take control of the territory and organise democratic elections. Indonesian repression currently renders elections impossible.
No surprise in Jakarta’s response with the Indonesian Foreign Minister summoning the British Ambassador to clarify his government’s position on the formation of the Provisional Government.
Although the announcement of a provisional government came as a surprise to some members of the movement, there is bound to be discussions by all parties involved
In Melbourne on the 1st December a number of activists climbed on the roof of the Indonesian consulate and unfurled a banner and the Morning Star flag.
An AsiaPacific Report (6 Dec. ) “Jakarta ‘regrets’ Morning Star flag protest at Melbourne consulate after video goes viral” at
Hansard - Senate 1/12/2020 Parliament of Australia
Extract
Senateon 1/12/2020
Item ADJOURNMENT - Human Rights, Climate Change: Pacific Islands, Pauga, Mr Talalelei
Speaker : Rice, Sen Janet
“Today is the 59th anniversary of the first raising of West Papua's symbol of independence, the Morning Star flag. The Australian Greens have long advocated for West Papuan independence. It was the former Australian Greens leader Richard Di Natale who in 2012 launched Australia's chapter of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua. When the Indonesian President visited here last year we took the opportunity to raise the issue of human rights in West Papua with him. So today we support the people of West Papua; we call on the Indonesian government to withdraw its combat troops from West Papua and to allow the UN Human Rights Commissioner to visit West Papua.
We are incredibly concerned at the likelihood of violence by Indonesian police, military and militias against protesters who are marking this day today. This concern is particularly important for us here in Australia because we have provided training and support to Indonesian police. When Indonesian police commit brutalities and human rights violations in West Papua, that is of real concern to us here as Australians. We must examine whether we are enabling these violations and take serious, urgent action if we are. This is, again, something that I'll be seeking further information on. We must not, as Australians, be enabling human rights abuses in West Papua.”
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansards/db4b8baa-2cf5-40f1-a3cb-08b7c4af69af/&sid=0268
December 1 rallies in Yogyakarta, Jakarta call for self-determination
Arah Juang – December 2, 2020
Protester holds poster opposing 1969 plebiscite during rally in Jakarta – December 1, 2020 (Tirto)
Protest actions took place in several cities around Indonesia on December 1 including in Jakarta, Yogyakarta (Central Java), Ternate (North Maluku) and Sinjai (South Sulawesi). The actions were launched to commemorate West Papua Independence Day.
But even before the actions were launched, security forces attempted to thwart them by blocking protesters, breaking up rallies and arresting demonstrators. The following are reports on the actions in Jakarta and Yogyakarta.
Papuan students commemorate December 1 in Surabaya – December 1, 2020 (CNN)
Police arrest 15 at December 1 rally in South Sulawesi, break up protest in Ternate
West Papuans protest against extension of Special Autonomy law – December 1, 2020 (Tirto)
36 arrested after police break up Free Papua rallies in Manokwari, Sorong
By PMC Editor - AsiaPacific Report November 29, 2020
The West Papua regional police (Polda) have arrested 36 people in Manokwari and Sorong city following a demonstration commemorating the anniversary of the West Papua New Guinea National Congress (WPNGNC) at the weekend, reports CNN Indonesia.
West Papua regional police spokesperson Assistant Superintendent Adam Erwindi said that the people arrested on Friday were currently being questioned by police. “The Manokwari Polres [district police] backed up by West Papua Polda Brimob [Mobile Brigade paramilitary police] have secured them and are taking information,” said Erwindi .
Papua special autonomy hearing broken up, 54 arrested for ‘treason’
By Pacific Media Watch - November 20, 2020
Environmental film maker Wensislaus Fatubun handcuffed when Indonesian police arrested Papuan participants in the Merauke consultation. Image: Papuan sources
Indonesian police have arrested 54 participants of a public hearing organised by the Papuan People’s Council (MPR) this week at the Valentine Hotel in Merauke regency in Papua. They were arrested for alleged makar (treason, subversion, rebellion) yet the public hearing was actually discussing evaluating the implementation of Law Number 21/2001 on Special Autonomy (Otsus) in Papua, reports Kompas. Merauke district police chief Assistant Superintendant Untung Suriatna explained the chronology leading up to the arrest of the participants which included those attending the public hearing as well as members of the MPR.
A number of events were held leading up to and around the 1st December including webinar events that people could be involved in as well as flag raising ceremonies. A few examples below.
https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2020/12/leading-up-to-and-around-1st-december.html
West Papuan priests call for dialogue to end violent conflict
2:10 pm on 11 December 2020 Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific Journalist
Catholic priests in West Papua have appealed for reconciliation and dialogue to address ongoing armed violence in their region.
West Papuan Catholic Priests have appealed to Indonesian security forces and Papua's pro-independence guerilla fighters to step back from armed conflict and enter dialogue. Photo: Supplied
A statement has been issued by 147 priests from across the Indonesian-administered provinces of West Papua and Papua. The priests acknowledge an increase in conflict following a massacre of 18 Indonesian road construction workers by the West Papua Liberation Army in Nduga two years ago.
Indonesia deployed extra security forces to Papua in response. Subsequent violent exchanges have caused deaths and injury of civilians, including Papuan church leaders in recent months. The priests said their appeal was firstly directed at Indonesia's police and military and also the pro-independence West Papua guerilla fighters, pleading with them to cease hostilities.
Secondly, they have asked Indonesia's President Joko Widodo and his government to withdraw all non-essential forces from Papua. It is not the first time in recent months that West Papuan church leaders have appealed for a de-escalation of the militarisation that's been underway in their region But it is their most desperate call yet, pointing out that military intervention only exacerbates tensions.
Indonesia's military has engaged in a series of deadly skirmishes with elements of the West Papua Liberation Army in regencies including Puncak Jaya and Intan Jaya this year. The Catholic priests said a military approach would never solve the problems of Papua. "We ask that both parties, who are dignified Human Beings, immediately cease armed violence and open the door to dialogue in dignified dialogue that can be mediated by the State or Neutral and independent Groups." Meanwhile, ongoing conflict has caused mass displacement of various remote village communities in regencies of Papua's rugged interior.
The priests offered to play a role in facilitating dialogue that could begin to address the long-running conflict in West Papua. "This dialogue is not intended to seek out who is wrong and who is right, but rather to find the real truths that lead all parties to justice and peace in life," the priests said. Their statement also called for Indonesian policy makers to consider the devastating impact on indigenous Papuans from unfettered migration to their homeland by people from other parts of Indonesia. They said West Papua should not be considered as vacant land to be filled up, warning of an increasingly strained relationship between migrants and the region's indigenous Melanesians if transmigration was not controlled.
TAPOL Briefing December 8, 2020
Entrenched militarism, the ‘prosperity’ approach and governance by exception in
West Papua
Introduction
Since the fall of the New Order regime (1966-1998), with one brief period of exception between 1998-2001, the power and authority of the Indonesian security forces in the region of West Papua have remained largely undiminished. We attribute this to two reasons, both of which stem from a failure to implement genuine political reform in West Papua and Indonesia more broadly.
First, the power of the military and police in West Papua has remained unchecked by institutions created by the Special Autonomy Law of 2001. Many parts of the law, which expires in 2021, remain unimplemented, and West Papua’s legislatures, created by the law, have no effective powers to check militarism. We will expand on aspects of the Special Autonomy Law (UU Otsus or Otonomi Khusus) in a forthcoming separate piece.
Second, an important cause of this failure is the lack of a coherent strategy of a so-called ‘prosperity approach’ by the Government towards the region, which was purported to supersede the ‘security approach’ associated with the New Order period, but which has in fact seen the military benefit from direct involvement in development and extraction projects while receiving on- and off-budget funds. ‘Prosperity’ in West Papua has been narrowly conceived of by the central Government in Jakarta in terms of funding projects for which funding is allocated not on a needs-based analysis but is subject to widespread corrupt allocation, and often focussed on roads. This has increased the security forces’ presence in the Central Highlands area, inflaming tensions, and leading to human rights abuses. The economic interests of the military in particular have remained protected and have helped it to preserve its territorial structure - in place since before the New Order period; and this has allowed it to maintain a presence in all provinces of Indonesia and West Papua. Militarization has increased due to its relationship with a system of governance through exceptions, meaning that the Government cannot govern West Papua without resorting to making exceptions to national policies.
We outline some of these exceptions at the end of this briefing note. Throughout we use the term ‘West Papua’ to refer to the territory which is made up of two provinces - Papua and West Papua……….
Papuans Behind Bars
Prisoner Update: Jan 2019 – Sept 2020
Summary
There were 245 new political prisoners between 1 January 2019 and 30 September 2020. While 198 of the political prisoners on record have now been released, 27 remain in prison serving their sentences, seven are currently on trial and another is awaiting trial. There are at least twelve people on the police wanted list. For 2019, the new political prisoners cases can be divided into three categories: those who were arrested at a particular event in January; those who were arrested during the “West Papua Uprising” from August to September; and those who were arrested in the lead up to and during the 1st of December: Commemoration of West Papua Independence Day.
As for the 2020 cases, this update only covers the arrests and detentions up to 30 September 2020.
The list provided at the end of this update also includes the political prisoners from before 2019 who remain in prison, still serving their sentences.
Papua’s cycle of violence Editorial Board The Jakarta Post
Editorial Board The Jakarta Post Jakarta November 4, 2020
Both the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and the local independent Humanitarian Team for Intan Jaya reached a more or less similar conclusion about the cause of the death of a pastor in the Papua highland regency recently. The two confirmed each other’s discovery that military soldiers were behind the torture that claimed the life of respected religious leader Yeremia Zanambani on Sept. 19. Komnas HAM commissioner Choirul Anam provided Monday details of how the acts of violence were perpetrated against Yeremia allegedly to extract information from him about an armed group responsible for the killing of Chief Sgt. Sahlan on Sept. 17. From Choirul’s description, the wounds that caused the pastor to die of profuse blood loss were a display of human cruelty which perhaps is rampantly practiced in Papua despite calls to deal with grievances and dissenting voices there.
In their reports, Komnas HAM and the independent humanitarian team hold Chief Sgt. Alpius Hasim Madi of the newly formed Hitapida district military command (Koramil) accountable for Yeremia’s death. According to the Papua-based independent team’s finding, Alpius was close to Yeremia as the pastor had often given him meals and allowed him to take a bath at his home. Prior to the pastor’s death Alpius and his subordinates had gathered a number of local residents in their search for the people who killed Sahlan and seized his rifle. Intimidation was clearly at play as the soldiers set a three-day deadline for the return of the arms. A witness told the independent team the soldiers
even threatened to bomb their village if they refused to cooperate.
As in the Intan Jaya case, the use of violence only breeds new violence. On the day when Yeremia was tortured, a group of armed people believed to be part of the West Papua National Liberation Army attacked the preparatory Koramil, killing a soldier. The government also formed an investigation team, which, despite doubts over its credibility, reflected the President’s will to resolve the series of violence plaguing the remote, underdeveloped regency. Now that Komnas HAM, the Papua-based team and the government-sanctioned team have submitted their reports, the ball is in President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s court and follow-up actions are all that the public is waiting for. It may have become a cliché, but Komnas HAM’s recommendation for an end to the security approach in Papua following what has happened in Intan Jaya should not fall on deaf ears this time around. Indonesia has been widely criticized and certain countries have openly campaigned for Papuan independence due to the vicious cycle of violence, which simply is the consequence of the use of an outdated security lens to view Papua problems.
For nearly 60 years, this hard approach, characterized by mass deployment of military and police forces, has not led to long-lasting peace in Papua. Despite the heavy presence of forces, conflicts have continued to occur, killing not only those armed, including young soldiers, but also unarmed civilians. Time to reset and restart the way to settle the Papua issue beyond doubt.
Killing of Intan Jaya pastor part of major shift in security crisis: Report
Budi Sutrisno The Jakarta Post Jakarta December 9, 2020
The intensity of the conflict between the Indonesian Military and the West Papua National Liberation Army has increased following a series of violent incidents at the end of 2019, according to a report.(JP/Hengky Wijaya)
The shooting of Papuan Pastor Yeremia Zanambani is not an independent incident but part of the most recent and most significant shift in the trend of conflicts in Intan Jaya regency since its establishment in 2008, a report has said.
A recent report about the killing of Yeremia titled “Grief from Hitadipa”, written by a team formed by Papua Governor Lukas Enembe about three weeks after the incident occurred in September, stated that Intan Jaya had entered its latest period of conflicts. The report stated that the province had become an armed conflict zone in Papua in the past year due to the presence of two significant security forces, the Indonesian Military (TNI) and the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB). “The shift in conflicts is significant because previously, Intan Jaya regency was never part of the conflict zone between the TNI and the TPNPB,” the report said. Before the security forces entered, the report said, conflicts in Intan Jaya were only been related to communal issues, land ownership issues, clashes among locals and various other disturbances to security and public order by local residents. “When social conflicts such as tribal wars occurred, a conflict resolution based on traditional values was pursued by the warring groups of people to find a middle ground.”
The separation of Intan Jaya from Paniai regency to form a new autonomous region in 2008 correlates with the shift in the conflict trend. The team recorded that from 2014 to 2016, violence involving Mobile Brigade (Brimob) members led to at least one civilian death and 21 injuries.
As tensions were escalating, the Papua Police multiplied troops for security, the report stated. “The tensions have had an impact on the fragility of the civilian government in responding to various dynamics of local security,” the report said. The report explained that the 2017 race had impacted the legitimacy and effectiveness of the local administration, as organic and non-organic troops were deployed to secure the election and its aftermath, resulting in a significantly increased presence of the military and the police. The TPNPB was simultaneously ramping up efforts to expand its territorial units and working toward reunification, the report said.
After the TPNPB Summit in Papua’s Biak Numfor regency in May 2012, the liberation army had 33 territorial units throughout Papua, including in Intan Jaya. Internal consolidation was also strengthened through a meeting on the Reunification and the Declaration of Unity of the TPNPB on Aug. 1, 2019, in Ilaga, Puncak regency, the report said. Since then, it stated, the intensity of the conflict between the TNI and the TPNPB had increased, including in Intan Jaya regency. A series of violent incidents have escalated the conflict since the end of 2019, including the shooting of Indonesian Army soldiers. “Now, Intan Jaya regency has become a new zone for deadly security conflicts.
According to the humanitarian team’s record, the victims in the conflicts between the TNI and the TPNPB were mostly civilians, both Papuans and non-Papuans,” the report stated. The team has thus far documented at least 17 cases of violence perpetrated by either the TNI or the TPNPB, resulting in 17 deaths, including 12 civilians. The team said Yeremia was the 10th civilian victim in Intan Jaya since October 2019. Chairman of the humanitarian team Haris Azhar, who is also the Lokataru Legal and Human Rights Foundation executive director, said many residents in Intan Jaya had left their villages over fear of conflicts as more TNI members had entered the region. He said some residents had fled to the mountains or to other regencies, including Mimika and Nabire. “Just this morning, I received a report from local residents that more soldiers had been deployed.
This is of course not what they are hoping for. They do not want the presence of soldiers there,” Haris told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday. Haris said his team had submitted an analysis of the report to the Executive Office of the President through its deputy head of politics, legal affairs, defense, security and human rights, Jaleswari Pramodhawardani. The Post contacted Jaleswari and Col. Gusti Nyoman Suriastawa, the spokesperson of the TNI’s Joint Regional Defense Command (Kogabwilhan) III, for comment but neither party extended a reply.
(Note. Lots of images in article).
West Papua: New Online Influence Operation Attempts to Sway Independence Debate
54 arrested at special autonomy hearing released due to lack of evidence
CNN Indonesia – November 20, 2020
Jakarta – Police have released 54 participants of a Papuan People's Council (MRP) public hearing into Special Autonomy in Papua who were arrested for allegedly committing makar (treason, subversion, rebellion). The arrests took place on Tuesday November 17 while the public hearing was being held in Merauke regency, Papua. "The participants have been able to return home since 11 am local time because there is still a lack of evidence", said Papua regional police spokesperson Senior Commissioner Ahmad Musthofa Kamal when sought for confirmation on Thursday November 19. Kamal explained that although the participants had been sent home, police will still be asking them to write a letter declaring that they would not commit makar. "The measures by police who arrested and handcuffed several people including Papuan People's Council member Amatus Ndapitis at a hotel was simply to maintain security and to anticipate something undesirable happening", said Kamal.
Earlier, the Merauke district police said that more than 50 of those arrested at the MRP public hearing had been declared suspects on charges of makar. Kamal however has yet to confirm the suspects' status. Merauke district police chief Assistant Superintendant Untung Suriatna said earlier that the police initially took action because the public hearing failed to pay attention to Covid-19 health protocols. When police moved in however, several MRP members were found trying to discard documents from the meeting which turned out to contain a complete organisational structure [arising out of] a planned referendum.
"They wanted to shout slogans supporting their referendum. After we investigated, the evidence was the existence of their current president, there were also ministers", said Suriatna when contacted by CNN Indonesia on Thursday.
Suriatna believes that these actions can be categorised as makar and disturbing state security and because of this they will be indicted under Article 104 of the Criminal Code (KUHP). He said that the gathering was dangerous because it was planning to disrupt the existing administrative structure in Indonesia.
"Record what I'm saying, this was makar because we have a president, there are regents, there are governors, there are Kapolda [district police chiefs], and there are Pangdam [regional military commanders]. Why were they creating a president and all that, that's makar", he said. (mjjo/arh)
[Translated by James Balowski. The original title of the article was "Kurang Bukti Kasus Makar, Polri Lepas 54 Peserta Rapat MRP".]
Human Rights Lawyers’ Association: Jokowi's Approach to Papua Not Humanistic
Tempo 14 November 2020
Seventeen years later on November 10, 2011, Dortheys 'Theys' Hiyo Eluay, Papuan customary leader, was also shot dead by Kopassus members. "I thought to myself, these incidents don't seem to stop," said Gustaf, 44, from Jayapura during a special interview via video with Tempo last Wednesday, November 4.
The human rights lawyer said the probes into alleged violence by the security forces against the Papuan people went nowhere in spite of clear indications of human rights violations in many cases. The cases were seldom solved or only solved in the court-martial, let alone reached human rights courts. Citing Elsam Papua's report, Gustaf said the number of human rights violations in Papua since its annexation by Indonesia amounted to 749 cases. However, only the Abepura incident that broke out on December 7, 2000, reached the human rights court. "That's just one case and the perpetrators were acquitted by the cassation court in the end," said Gustaf, the chairman of Papuan Human Rights Lawyers' Association.
Gustaf added that the only time the Papuan people enjoyed space to express their opinions was during the era of President Abdurrahman Wahid or Gus Dur. Things went downhill again afterward including during President Joko Widodo's rule. Looking at the fact that President Jokowi has set up the Intan Jaya Joint Fact-Finding Team to resolve the shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani via a political channel, Gustaf feels Jokowi is not serious enough about resolving issues in Papua albeit his record as the president who has made the most visits to Papua. The fact-finding team formed to investigate the case was deemed intended to solve it politically.
To Tempo, Gustaf recounted his experiences of handling alleged human rights violations in his homeland. He pointed out that the exploitation of natural resources had forced the Papuans out of their homes and to become victims of abuse by the security forces. He believes that the government's lack of seriousness has worsened the situation.
Why do you feel that the joint fact-finding team (TGPF) is not determined to unravel the shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani?
All the shootings in Papua including the one involving Pastor Zanambani are repeat incidents since Papua's integration to Indonesia. In 2011, the same fate befell Theys Eluay. The military at first denied their wrongdoings but the results of the investigation by our NGO (non-governmental organization) friends pointed to their direction. But they still denied it. Then a more thorough investigation showed Kapassus' involvement. But the result said it did not find human rights violations so the case was only tried by a military tribunal in Surabaya (East Java). Now it's the same story with Pastor Zanambani's killing.
What hasn't been revealed by the Intan Jaya TGPF's investigation?
The investigation by our friends at the church found indications of the Indonesian Military's (TNI) involvement. Then, the result of an independent investigation by the Papuan Human Rights Coalition also pointed to the TNI. And they kept on denying after the TGPF ambiguously declared that the perpetrators were either TNI personnel or unknown armed assailants. At last, the National Human Rights Commission's (Komnas HAM) probe confirmed TNI's involvement and that the perpetrator was the deputy commander of the Hitadipa military subdistrict command (Danramil) based in Intan Jaya. I have to say this is sad because these incidents keep on happening and there is no comprehensive resolution for violence against Papuan people.
Violence against the Papuan people goes on. What are the root causes?
If the government wants to be honest, the crux of the matter is the natural resources. The exploitation of natural resources is mostly carried out through a military approach which led to human rights violations. This has happened repeatedly since the 1969 integration until now. We know the government's plan to exploit natural resources especially gold in the Wabu Block. And then the government sought a military approach again, and again the civilians were the victims in the process. (In a copy of the letter dated July 24, that Tempo received, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe, responding to the request sent by the CEO of Mining Industry Indonesia on February 20, issued a recommendation for a special mining permit to mine in the 40,000 hectares Wabu Block in Intan Jaya which previously was known as the Block B belonging to Freeport Indonesia.)
Was Pastor Zanambani one of those activists advocating the exploitation of gold in Intan Jaya?
We heard that the Pastor often advocated for the victims of abuse including torture by the security forces. He stood up for the people. In the latest incident, the soldiers ordered the people to gather at the church and threatened them. Pastor Zanambani helped the residents and the TNI considered him as inconveniencing the state.
Was Pastor Zanambani deliberately targeted?
Yes, he was targeted for being vocal about the people's rights. That's what Papuan Human Rights Coalition's investigation found. Komnas HAM's findings also indicated a design by the army to eliminate people who they deem as a nuisance.
Was the Pastor terrorized or intimidated before he was murdered?
According to the investigation, there was an incident prior to the murder where an unknown group stole (military) weapons. The soldiers accused the people around the area of being involved in the theft. Then the villagers were rounded up in the churchyard and terrorized by the personnel including the deputy commander of the Hitadipa subdistrict command. He said they would kill anyone who got in the way including Pastor Zanambani. The victim's family said they saw the deputy commander and several of his men head towards the pigsty where the pastor was killed. They said it was the deputy commander named Alpius who pulled the trigger.
Read the Full Interview in Tempo English Magazine
Opinion pieces/reports/media releases etc.
Free Papua Movement’ Intensifies Amid Escalating Violence
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/world/asia/west-papua-independence.html
Palm oil giant Wilmar unfazed as watchdogs cry foul over Papua deforestation
Palm oil giant Korindo accused again of illegally burning Papuan rainforest
Papua sawmill loses legal timber stamp over allegations of permit forgery
How Hawaii Became A Training Ground For The Indonesian Military
https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/12/how-hawaii-became-a-training-ground-for-the-indonesian-military/
1st of December – the day of Papuans’ statehood, remembrance, and mourning
Australia risks alienating friends and deterring no one
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-risks-alienating-friends-and-deterring-no-one/
GLW photos of WP flag raising in Sydney
https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2020/11/solidarity-shown-to-west-papua.html
Media release -West Papuan flag raising in Sydney
https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2020/11/media-release-west-papuan-flag-raising.html
Listen to Enemy of the state from 7am on Apple Podcasts.
https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2020/11/1-four-papuan-civilians-shot-dead-by.html
Not always black or white: Downside of polarizing Papua discourse
Last update
https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2020/11/awpa-october-2020-update.html
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