AWPA Update No 1/ 2021
Welcome to our first update in 2021 and a belated happy new year to all.
Since our last update there have been regular clashes and shooting incidents between the Indonesian security forces and armed gangs. The media in Indonesia usually blame the OPM for these attacks but it should be remembered that the mainstream media are quoting official security force spokespeople in reference to these attacks. There are many actors involved in West Papua but the truth will always come out through local media and the people in the territory. However in response to these attacks the security forces undertake military operations leading to human rights abuses, incidents of intimidation and torture of Papuan activists, human rights defenders and cause local people to flee creating internal refugees. The resources of West Papua continue to be exploited by Jakarta and the Papuan people face racism and discrimination on a daily basis.
An audio report from Johnny Blades RNZ Pacific.
Counter claims over Papuan trio killed by Indonesian military
From Dateline Pacific, 23 February 2021
The West Papua Liberation Army says three young men killed by Indonesia's military last week were civilians and died after being tortured. There's a different take on the deaths from Indonesia's military which claims the men were members of the pro-independence Liberation Army.
The deaths, in remote Intan Jaya regency, are the latest in a series of violent attacks in Papua province's rugged interior. Johnny Blades is here to give me the latest about the ongoing conflict.
West Papua group denies army claims over killings
RNZ Pacific 22 Feb. 2021
The West Papua Liberation Army says three young men killed by Indonesia's military last week were civilians and died after being tortured and not shot while escaping. The deaths occurred at a health centre in Sugapa in Papua province. A spokesman for Indonesia's military says the three men were members of an armed group, a euphemism for the West Papua Liberation Army.
He says one of the three had gone to the health centre after fleeing from military officers who suspected he was behind an earlier fatal attack on an Indonesian soldier.
The coffins of three West Papuan men killed by Indonesia's military on 16 February 2021 in Sugapa, Intan Jaya regency. Photo: Supplied
The Papuan had sustained a gunshot wound, and was reportedly visited by two relatives in the clinic before the military came for them. The military says the men were shot trying to escape. But the Liberation Army claims the men were civillians and they died after being beaten and tortured. The Liberation Army has confirmed that it was responsible for the death of an Indonesian soldier in Intan Jaya the previous day, Monday 15 February. It was the latest death in ongoing violent exchanges between the Libration Army's guerilla fighters and Indonesian security forces across several regencies in Papua's remote interior.
In a statement to the high level segment of the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the
West Papua (Papua)
Excellencies, the violent conflict and subsequent human rights violations in West Papua (Papua) has been a concern for the Pacific Island Forum Leaders for over 20 years. In 2016, it become a standing agenda item for Forum Leaders.
Pacific Island Forum Leaders’ focus on West Papua has been squarely on human rights – calling on all parties to protect and uphold the human rights of all residents, and to work to address the root causes of the conflict by peaceful means.
In recent years, the escalation of tension and alleged human rights violations on both sides of the conflict, particularly against innocent civilians, has deepened the collective concerns of the Leaders of the Pacific.
When our Leaders met in Tuvalu two years ago, they welcomed the invitation by the Government of Indonesia for a mission to West Papua by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and strongly encouraged both sides to finalise the timing of the visit. Leaders also called for an evidence-based report on the situation in West Papua to be provided before their next meeting.
We call on distinguished Council Members to encourage all relevant parties to urgently facilitate a mission to West Papua by the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Just like climate change and other pertinent challenges to our Blue Pacific, the COVID-19 pandemic must not hinder our efforts to address critical issues.
Full statement https://www.forumsec.org/2021/03/01/hrc46/
More troops have also been sent to West Papua causing fear in the local population.
Residents of Intan Jaya Regency, Papua, seek safety at the front yard of Bilogai Catholic Church in Intan Jaya following armed conflicts. Jub/.Handout
Jayapura, Jubi – A Papua Legislative councilor from Intan Jaya electoral district, Thomas Sondegau, said the new deployment of security personnel to Intan Jaya would make residents in the regency more scared and worried about their safety. … https://en.jubi.co.id/reduce-security-personnel-in-intan-jaya-councilor/
There has also been talk on dividing the territory into more provinces.
The politics of divide and rule and how Indonesia’s attempt to separate indigenous Papuans is an irrational and unrealistic proposal that will damage the cultural values of kinship and togetherness as Melanesian people, writes Dr Socratez Yoman.
An analysis by Dr Socratez Yoman for the Asia Pacific Report.
There have been large protests in the territory against any new provinces. A Jubi report (February 22, 2021) “Thousands in Dogiyai rally in the street, rejecting new province, new police precinct”
Dogiyai, Jubi – Thousands of people in Dogiyai Regency in Papua, united under Papuan People Solidarity, took to the streets on Monday, Feb. 22, to protest against the government’s plan to create a new province and to establish a new police precinct at the regency level. They came from 11 districts in the regency and gathered in front of Dogiyai Legislative Council to convey their protests. Among the protesters were civil servants, Dogiyai Customary Council leaders, activists from West Papua National Committee (KNPB), students, customary figures, religious figures, and private company workers..... https://en.jubi.co.id/thousands-dogiyai-reject-new-province/
In Jayapura (from Jubi February 9, 2021) Jayapura, Jubi – Hundreds of university students from Lapago Customary Territory gathered on Monday in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, to reject the central government and local administration plan to establish new provinces in Papua Land or West Papua.
Students hailing from Lapago Customary Territory rally in Jayapura on Feb. 8 to reject the plan to form new provinces in their customary area. Jubi/Yance Wenda
Also from Jubi , February 16, 2021
‘It’s genocide’: Many Papuans reject new provinces. Here’s why.
A wave of rejections against Jakarta’s plan to establish new provinces in West Papua has emerged in Papua Land. Papuan students outside their home have also risen to the occasion and rejected the plan. One of the citizens who rejected the plan, Marius Goo, said there were several reasons native Papuans should reject the new provinces. Goo, who is an activist in Meepago customary territory, said it was “genocide” because he accused that the new provinces would bring more non-Papuans to Papua Land, sidelining native Papuans and in a long term, decimating them...... https://en.jubi.co.id/genocide-papua-new-provinces/
The map of Papua Land's customary territories.
Rally in Sorong calls on Jakarta to stop forcing Special Autonomy on Papua Suara Papua – January 13, 2021
Reiner Brabar, Kota Sorong – On Monday January 11, hundreds of protesters from the Papuan People's Front (FRP) who oppose the extension of Special Autonomy (Otsus) held a long-march from Kilometre 9 to the Sorong City Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) carrying a coffin with the message "The late Otsus". Action coordinator Marius Asso said, "The Papuan people in the land of the Cenderawasih have declared that they reject Special Autonomy", referring to the Bird of Paradise as Papuan is known.
According to Asso, 19 years of Special Autonomy in Papua has failed to protect or bring prosperity to indigenous Papuans, thus, he said, the Papuan people are united in rejecting Special Autonomy in Papua. "Jakarta, stop forcing the Papuan people to accept Otsus. We here are asking the people's representatives to convey to the Indonesian president that the Papua people are ready to bury Otsus which is already dead", he said. In addition to this, Asso called on the Sorong City DPRD to pass on their wishes to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in Jakarta. Another protesters, Apey Tarami, asserted that all of the demonstrators at today's action are asking the central government to immediately halt military operations in Papua and immediately withdraw troops from Nduga regency, Intan Jaya, and from throughout the land of Papua. "Papua is not a military operational zone", asserted Tarami.
The action was watched over by hundreds of police officers from the Sorong municipal police. Police attempted to stop the rally at one point but the protesters continued with the action.
The protesters were finally received by the speaker of the Sorong DPRD and after giving speeches and conveying their demands, they dispersed in an orderly fashion.
The FRP made a number of demands of the DPRD including asking Jakarta to stop deliberations on the extension of Special Autonomy and to listen to the statements and demands of the Papuan people through the Papuan People's Petition opposing Special Autonomy, explicitly rejecting the continuation of Special Autonomy in Papua, that the Papuan people strongly condemn any parties that compromise with Jakarta on revisions to the Special Autonomy Law, that the Indonesian government immediately withdraw all organic and non-organic troops from Papua, for a halt to military operation in Nduga and throughout Papua and the closure of foreign investments in the land of Papua.
[Translated by James Balowski. The original title of the article was "Jakarta Stop Paksa Orang Papua Terima Otsus".] Source:
’Important’ for UN to visit West Papua in light of human rights issue: Dutch minister
Jubi News Desk February 4, 2021
Jakarta, Jubi – Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Stef Blok told the Dutch parliament recently that the country considered a visit by United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights to Papua “important”.
The statement was made on Jan. 12 in response to nine questions from seven political parties in the Netherlands. Seven out of nine questions concerned West Papua in a follow up to a hearing in November last year, in which the Dutch Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives listened to Benny Wenda, a West Papuan exiled leader.
“The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has not yet visited Papua, partly because a visit has become temporarily virtually impossible due to the corona crisis. She does have a standing invitation to visit Indonesia. The Dutch Permanent Representation to the UN discussed this with the cabinet of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Dec. 3. The Netherlands has indicated that it considers a visit by the High Commissioner for Human Rights to Papua important. The Netherlands will again indicate to the Indonesian authorities at the next opportunity that it is important that such a visit takes place as soon as possible,” Blok wrote in the document.
The current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is Michelle Bachelet, a Chilean politician from the Socialist Party of Chile who served as the president of Chile from 2006-2010 and from 2014 to 2018. The other six questions from the Dutch parliament to Minister Stef Blok included issues pertaining to increasing rejection against the continuation of special autonomy funds, the shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani, and the restriction of foreign journalists.
On Nov. 4, Nigel Adams, UK government Minister for Asia at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) who is also a member of parliament from Conservative Party, answered a question from a member of parliament about West Papua.
Adams’s answer was: “The UK supports a visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (ONHCR) to Papua. Officials from the British Embassy have discussed the proposed visit of with the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and continue to encourage the Indonesian Government to agree dates as soon as possible.”
The international pressure on Indonesian government to invite UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit West Papua, a restive region that applies restricted access to foreign journalists, has been increasing especially in December 2019 when 79 countries in African Caribbean Pacific group made a resolution in which the countries “called for an international mission to visit Papua and provide an evidence-based, informed report on the human rights situation there,” reported RNZ Pacific.
Earlier in September 2019, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said her office was “disturbed” by escalating violence in Papua and West Papua in the past two weeks, especially the deaths of some protestors and security forces.
In early December 2020, the Southeast Asian branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern over the conflict in Papua Land. “We are disturbed by escalating violence over the past weeks and months […] and the increased risk of renewed tension and violence,” UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said.
Human rights activists have called on the UN to visit the Papua Land to address the allegation of human rights violations, including alleged judicial killings and alleged gross human rights violations in Paniai Regency.
In February 2018, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein visited Indonesia and raised concerns about human rights violations, among others, in Papua. Zeid, however, was barred a visit to West Papua.
In June 2018, Zeid said that the Indonesian government did not “honor” the promise for him to visit Papua Land. Permanent representative of Indonesia to UN, Hasan Kleib, responded with strong words that the Indonesian did not give access because of Zeid’s failure to “coordinate”.
Kleib confirmed that “my government has indeed invited him personally to visit the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua to have a first-hand information on the ongoing improvements of human rights as well as the existing challenges.”
“In the follow-up, it is deeply regrettable that the staff members of his Regional Office in Bangkok, instead of coordinating the planned visit with the Indonesian authorities, has unilaterally set the dates and areas to visit in Papua and West Papua, while demanding immediate access,” wrote Kleib. Kleib said next time UN High Commissioner wanted to visit Papua, they should “strictly abide by the established working method of the UN, and respect the principles of consent of the host Government in its future engagement.”
Editor: Evi Mariani
West Papua Liberation Movement condemns racist slurs
RNZI 29 January 2021
The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has condemned more racist slurs directed at West Papuans from members of Indonesia's elite.
Two incidents have provoked fresh outrage, with at least one case prompting Indonesian police to make an arrest before public anger spills over. Last month a former head of the Indonesian intelligence agency and special forces, General Hendropriyono, said that West Papuans should be resettled away from their homeland on the island of Manado. He explained that the idea to move two million West Papuans was so Indonesia "could racially separate them from Papuans in PNG, so that they could feel more like Indonesians instead of foreigners". And in the past week, the chairman of a support network for Indonesian President Joko Widodo called a leading West Papuan human rights defender a "monkey". Ambronicus Nababan, who is chair of the Pro Jokowi-Amin Volunteers (Projamin), made the racial remark about Natalius Pigai, a Papuan who is a former chairman of Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission.
The "monkey" epithet is the same slur that triggered mass anti-racism protests across Papua region in 2019. Nababan has now been arrested and charged over the remarks he directed towards Pigai, according to police.
The Liberation Movement's leader Benny Wenda said that since Indonesian troops invaded Papua in 1963, Jakarta's elites had made clear their racist plans to destroy Melanesian West Papuans as a distinct people.
In response to Hendropriyono's remarks, Wenda noted it as a viewpoint with currency among elements of Indonesia's leadership. "This is racial ethnic cleansing, a genocidal fantasy at the highest levels of the Indonesian state," Wenda said. He said the remarks stood in a long tradition.
"When Indonesia invaded our land, General Ali Moertopo said the Papuan people should be transferred to the moon," Wenda said in the statement.
Wenda said racism has been at the heart of Indonesia's settler colonial project in West Papua. He said this was why the Liberation Movement established a provisional government for a prospective independent West Papua in December last year. Wenda is its interim president. "My people rose up against this racism and colonisation in 2019. Thousands of students returned from the rest of Indonesia in an exodus from racism, dozens were killed by Indonesia, and hundreds arrested. "The Indonesian state punished those who spoke out with over 100 years of collective prison time. The killers and racists in the army, police and state-backed militias were allowed to go free.”
Meanwhile, UCA News reports that Nababan apologised to Pigai. He said he didn't intend to make racist remarks against Papuan people but only wanted to criticise Pigai's reported opposition to a Covid-19 vaccine. In the case ofd the retired Indonesian general has also recently spoken out against alleged use of missionaries and churches in efforts to liberate Papua from Indonesia. However Hendropriyono’s comments about removing West Papuans from their homeland have met with outrage not just in Papua but in other parts of the Pacific.
KNPB activist denied proper medical treatment in police detention: Lawyer
Jubi News Desk February 11, West Papua No. 1 News Portal | Jubi
Jayapura, Jubi – Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua) Director Emanuel Gobay, said that Merauke Police had denied 13 activists from the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) their right to health after the institute received a report that one of the detainees was critically ill. He said the family of Kristian Yandum informed him that Yandum was in Merauke Navy Hospital but they claimed he did not get proper treatment. Gobay said Yandum was allegedly beaten by the police officer when they arrested him along with 12 other KNPB activists on Dec. 13 last year. “Yandum’s family saw him in the hospital in a weak condition. He got oxygen tube attached to him but no IV drip,” said Gobay to Jubi on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Gobay claimed the Merauke Police did not bring Yandum to the hospital fast enough. He said Yandum had been ill in Merauke Police detention center for days. Gobay said some other detained KNPB activists were also injured but did not get any treatment.
“Looking at the condition of the detainees, we had asked the police officers to fulfill the detainees’ right to health, in line with article 58 of the Criminal Procedure Law,” he said. On Jan. 13, LBH Papua sent a letter to the police to move Yandum to a health facility. “But they took time responding to our request,” he said. The police responded on Feb. 8, when they took Yandum to the Navy hospital at night. The last time the family checked on Feb. 11, Yandum was still in the emergency ward of the hospital. Gobay said Merauke Police also sent a letter to the lawyers, saying that Yandum was scheduled for an X-Ray examination on Feb. 10.One of the KNPB leaders at the headquarters, Marpo Wetipo, told Jubi that torture, being sick in detention center, and even death were the consequences of the activists who were facing “colonial administration”. “This is proof of colonialism. The proof that a systematic killing is happening. KNPB is fighting against this violent system with peace,” he said. Wetipo said Indonesian government should have been ashamed of themselves that they fought peaceful fighting with violence, considering Indonesia had ratified several covenants on human rights. Coalition of Law and Human Rights Enforcers Papua released a report made available to Jubi on Feb. 11. The coalition claimed that the National Police’s Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel came to the office of KNPB Almasuh chapter in Merauke Regency on Dec. 13, riding two cars.
Indonesia’s Papuan bishops urge a future of hope for their people
Vatican News 27 February 2021 By Robin Gomes
The bishops of the neighbouring provinces of Papua and West Papua recently met to analyze the situation and problems affecting their people. The region is plagued by violence fueled by an armed struggle for independence. The Catholic bishops of Indonesia’s easternmost Provinces of West Papua and Papua are urging a “better future” from the country’s authorities for their people in a territory torn by decades of struggle between Indonesian forces and separatist groups.
Seek the common good
Representatives of the five dioceses of the two provinces recently came together for a 3-day meeting to discuss several problems affecting the Papuan people and their land, AsiaNews reported. Among the issues they focused on were the territory’s special autonomy law (UU Otsus), new job and development opportunities, and improving education, which now represents an emergency that must be tackled right away. The Catholic Church in West Papua and Papua consists of the single ecclesiastical metropolitan province of Merauke, which includes the Archdiocese of Merauke and the suffragan dioceses of Jayapura, Agats, Timika and Manokwari-Sorong. The see of Timika is currently vacant. In a press release on 25 Feb., at the end of their meeting, the Church leaders appealed to the country’s national and local leaders, urging them to focus on the common good of the people. According to them, peace can only be achieved through dialogue and an end to the armed struggle by separatist groups.
Struggle for independence
Indonesia’s military and security forces are pitted against local pro-independence armed groups who are pushing for “a referendum on self-determination”.
The bishops urged both sides to adopt “an approach based on love and non-violence”, inviting them to realize the “importance of peaceful dialogue”. Instead of discussing the further implementation of the special autonomy that has been in place for 20 years and which expires in 2021, they want to see the parties “get back to work together.”
Indigenous residents of West Papua and are Papua ethnically similar. The two provinces became part of Indonesia controversially in the 1960s, despite the former Dutch colony declaring independence in 1961. Since then, a separatist movement has been simmering in Papua, with sporadic violence. People have been complaining of discrimination and rights abuses at the hands of Indonesian authorities.
The prospects for peace are still conditioned by the armed struggle, which has led over the years to extrajudicial killings and violence on both sides. The civilians have suffered the most, forced to flee and seek refuge wherever they can, even inside churches.
Economic development and education
The bishops of the two Papuan provinces are stressing the need for creating a future of hope for their people through opportunities for economic development through jobs and encouraging local businesses and enterprises. The bishops complain that local businesses are owned by on-Papuan migrants from other provinces. “Regency officials,” they said, “should instead create opportunities for indigenous people, giving them the necessary skills and means.”
Another emergency, they said, is education which has been negatively impacted recently by the coronavirus pandemic. With school absenteeism normally high, the pandemic has exacerbated the situation, making illiteracy a serious problem. “When the bases of primary education are inadequate, one cannot hope to achieve anything better from high school or universities,” the bishops said. (Source: AsiaNews)
Lay Papuans turn against Indonesian Church deal with palm oil firm
By Ryan Dagur, 18 February 2021
Activists stage protest against Archbishop of Merauke signing deal with palm oil firm “at expense of environment” Together with several colleagues, Papuan Catholic activist Melvin Waine stood in front of Good Shepherd Parish Church in Abepura, Papua province, on Jan. 31. There was a box in front of them and they were holding up posters appealing for donations. “One thousand rupiah for Bishop Mandagi,” the posters said, referring to Archbishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi of Merauke. However, their effort was not in support of the bishop; it was a sarcastic stunt criticising Archbishop Mandagi.
The local Church is set to receive billions of rupiah after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a controversial palm oil company, PT Tunas Sawa Erma, part of the Korindo Group. The funds raised will be presented to the Diocese of Merauke. “The archbishop shouldn’t be cooperating with this firm. It’s scandalous that the Church conspires with a company that has brought suffering to Papua,” Waine told UCA News. He said they collected 882,000 rupiah (US$63) from supporters who attended Sunday Mass in Abepura Parish and two other parishes. “We will continue this at other churches every Sunday. We are also preparing to collect online,” he said. Their aim, he said, was for the archdiocese to cancel the MoU, signed on Jan. 5, in which the company committed to providing 2.4 billion rupiah, which is given in stages over three years. The company will also give the archdiocese operational cost 20 million rupiah a month for three years. Archbishop Mandagi has said the archdiocese needs to raise money, including from palm oil companies, to fund services including the construction of a minor seminary. He said the Church still expects the company to adopt environmentally sustainable practices.
However, for Waine, what the archbishop has done has aided the destruction of Papua’s forests, which the Korindo Group, a joint Indonesian and South Korean venture, has been accused of doing.
“It would be better for the money to have been collected from the people rather than companies that are clearly bringing suffering to Papuans,” Waine said. Petrus Supardi, another layman, said that “Archbishop Mandagi has rubbed salt in the wounds of Papuans.” “How do you set up a seminary, an educational centre for future church leaders, by collaborating with companies that destroy Papua’s natural forests?” he asked.
Among the religious themselves, this cooperation is equally controversial.
Father Alexandro Rangga, a Franciscan priest from Papua who is studying in Rome, said he cannot stop thinking that the Church now supports palm oil companies. “The Church must be firm in rejecting palm oil. We already know the impacts and that is always the poor who are the biggest victim,” he said in a recent webinar organised by the Franciscan Commission for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC).
In November, Greenpeace Indonesia and Forensic Architecture reported that Dongin Prabhawa, one of Korindo’s subsidiaries, had destroyed 57,000 hectares of rainforest, based on forest fires captured on NASA satellite imagery between 2011 and 2016. In “Burning Paradise,” a report released in 2016, environmental group Mighty Earth also pointed to Korindo’s systematic and abundant use of fire during land clearing. Sacred Heart Father Anselmus Amo, chairman of Merauke Archdiocese’s JPIC Commission, did not respond to UCA News’ request for comment. However, speaking to local media, he criticised the laymen’s actions and asked them not to doubt the agreement, stating that the archdiocese would not cancel it. “Whether the bishop will accept [the money they collect] is up to the archbishop. The point is we should not think negatively [of the cooperation],” he said, as quoted by the Papua Selatan Pos newspaper. Archbishop Mandagi is currently hospitalised in Ambon, Maluku province, after being diagnosed with COVID-19 on Jan. 29.
Voices grow louder
The protesters also issued a statement last month in which they declared they had lost trust in bishops from Papua and the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference, whom they accused of not caring about Papuan issues.
They added that the Vatican should consider appointing native Papuans, or at least those who understand the situation in Papua, as bishops in Indonesia’s easternmost region. “We need those who care about the local situation, especially regarding human rights violations and environmental damage,” they said. They said that they no longer felt that the Catholic Church offered hope for salvation. Waine, who participated in drawing up the statement, said they represented lay groups from five dioceses in Papua. “We have formulated this call after reflecting together on the recent development of the Church,” he said. “We are forced to do this, so that the Church will return to its mission, to its calling to be the voice of the voiceless.” Marthen Goo from Papua Itu Kita (Papua Is Us), a Jakarta-based advocacy forum, said the opposition is something that the Church must take seriously. “The protestations of this lay group are an expression of despair because they principally see the Church as the last bastion in the face of humanitarian problems that occur,” he said.
The Church must reposition and totally evaluate itself so that it once again is a church of the oppressed. “The Church is better off living in poverty and speaking out for God’s people rather than prioritising money while allowing people to be threatened,” Goo said. Reproduced with permission from La Croix International.
Opinion pieces/reports/media releases etc.
DFAT reply to AWPA letter of the 28 November 2020
Can the Pacific Become a Priority for Indonesian Diplomacy?
https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/can-the-pacific-become-a-priority-for-indonesian-diplomacy/
New report details numerous violations by PT Freeport Indonesia in West Papua
SPECIAL REPORT PT Freeport Indonesia and its tail of violations in Papua: human, labour and environmental rights December 2020
Full report https://www.humanrightspapua.org/images/docs/PT_Freeport_Indo_tail_of_violations_in_Papua_Dec20.pdf
Infrastructure Idols: Portraits and Paradigms of Development under Special Autonomy in Papua
Colonial-type genocide in West Papua: living in constant fear
https://johnmenadue.com/the-colonisation-of-west-papua-living-in-constant-fear-but-who-cares/
Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
by The Gecko Project and Mongabay on 21 January 2021
Papua deforestation highlights eastward shift of Indonesia forest clearing
Villagers in Boven Digoel Regency stand on a deforested area. Courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.
Photo in Jubi article 2 March
Papua’s Morning Star in Australian communities: Notes from a national holiday celebration
‘A cancer at the heart of the UN’: Indonesia’s escalating West Papua conflict
(Note. Lots of images in article).
Australia, UK and UN dragged into information operations targeting West Papua
22 Dec 2020| Ariel Bogle and Albert Zhang Strategist special report
Spatial access to health care: a case study on community health centers in Asmat District, Papua, Indonesia January 2021Journal of Public Health Policy
Want to Keep Papua in Indonesia? Let’s Talk About Racism
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/02/06/want-to-keep-papua-in-indonesia-lets-talk-about-racism/
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