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Herman Wainggai in Hawaii to attend the FestPac Hawaii
The ‘Execute Director’ of West Papua Human Rights Center, Mr. Herman Wainggai, is currently in Hawaii to attend the Festival of Pacific Arts, which is set to open on June 6th, 2024, at the University of Hawaii, Oahu. The event will go from June 6th to June 16th. According to their website: The Festival of
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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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The Guardian: Australia ignores West Papua because of fear of China
A Guardian report indicated that Australia fears China’s expansion and aggression in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and is willing to turn a blind eye to the human rights violations that are going on in West Papua. The Australia defense force has been training Indonesian military as a buffer against Chinese expansion and aggression. As
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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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The Indonesian government’s statement at the UNSC and UNGA
Our hearts go out to the victims and their families in Gaza and the families of those who were brutally murdered in southern Israel. This conflict demonstrates one thing: some people are more important than others. For the murder of children of other ethnic groups, the world doesn’t care. This is not to say that
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Message to the Melanesian Spearhead Group
Good morning the government of the United States of America. Good morning to the Indonesian government in Jakarta. Everyone knows our country our Melanesian nation of West Papua is still under the dictatorship of the Indonesian government. And in this day and age, it is unacceptable to subjugate people in 2023 against international law. Today,
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Mr. Paiki and Robaha presented ‘Washington Solution’ to Indonesian representatives
In Port Numbay, West Papua, yesterday (August 15), indigenous people gathered to remember the New York Agreement, and how that agreement affected our indigenous people for the past six decades. Leading the meeting were Mr. Septinus Paiki and Pilipus Robaha. Some West Papuan Representatives of the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency also attended. Mr. Paiki and
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The Washington Solution
A lasting solution to West Papua-Indonesian conflict By Herman Wainggai and the ‘West Papuan Human Rights Center’ Introduction It has been 54 years since the election of 1969, which gave Indonesia legal cover to occupyWest Papua in spite of the fact that 99.9% of the indigenous people did not vote in support ofthe occupation of
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Today in 1962, powerbrokers of the UN signed the New York Agreement on West Papua without our consent
1962: The New York Agreement The New York Agreement (NYA) was the most cruel agreement ever perpetrated on our indigenous West Papuan people. It is the basis of the sham referendum of the 1969 ‘Act of Free Choice’ election and the very reason West Papua is being occupied by Indonesia today. Today, we look back
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