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The president-elect of Indonesia is bad news for indigenous West Papuans
The Indonesian New Boss is bad news for West Papua and other freedom fighters. The people of Indonesia flocked into the election polls on February 15, 2024, to elect their presidential leader after President Joko Widodo reached his term limit as permitted by the Indonesian constitution. Mr. Prabowo Subianto won the election and will be sworn
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Religious leaders and political activists demand dialogue to end violence in West Papua – JP
The Jakarta Post reported that church leaders and political activists are calling for “dialogue” with the Indonesian government to end violence in West Papua. JP reports: A number of religious figures and prominent human rights activists have called for dialogue to end violence in Papua, where incidents of violence continue as a result of conflict
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin must ask Indonesia to open up West Papua
Good afternoon to all our brothers, sisters, and supporters here in America. And hello to our brothers and sisters back home in West Papua Melanesia and to all our brothers and sisters in the Pacific, including Pacific Island leaders all over Oceania. Greetings from America! I’m standing here in front of the US Congressional building
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Massive Land Grab in West Papua by Palm Oil Company and the Indonesian government
World leaders continue to attack Israel over lands they claim Israel is illegally occupying, but they are awfully quiet about the theft of West Papuan lands by the Indonesian government and their foreign partners. An article published by the Jakarta Post a few days ago states: An Indigenous tribe in Indonesia is at risk of
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Indonesia must recognize our right to self-determination
In 2020, a representative of the Indonesian government, in response to the Vanuatu government’s call for a UN fact-finding mission to West Papua, accused Vanuatu and other PIF Island states of interfering in Indonesian domestic issues. She went on to say that Indonesia is the “third largest “democracy” in the world and one of the
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Herman Wainggai Rejected Indonesian Presence in West Papua in front the Indonesian embassy in Washington, D.C.
On Wednesday, December 14, 2022, Mr. Herman Wainggai (CEO of WPHRC, D.C) and friends gathered at the front gate of the Indonesian embassy in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the ‘Declaration of the Independent State of West Melanesia’, and to call on the Indonesian government to respect and recognize West Papuans’ rights to self-determination. Mr. Wainggai
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Indonesian cash silenced Pacific Islands Support for West Papua
A few years ago President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia pledged $1 billion AUD to fight West Papuan efforts in the Pacific Islands. That promise is now a reality in 2022. In 2016, 16 countries used the UNGA to speak of the alarming number of human rights violations in West Papua. They called on the
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