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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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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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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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Delegation of Pro-Independent groups from New Caledonia and Tahiti spoke at ‘UN’s Special Committee on Decolonization’
A delegation of members of the independence movement in New Caledonia, a Melanesian group of Islands, and French Polynesia, traditionally known as Tahiti, a group of Polynesian Islands, spoke at the ‘UN Special Committee on Decolonization’. Who are the Kanaks? Kanaks is a term used by the French government to refer to indigenous tribal people
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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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New Year’s Message from our CEO (PNG Pijin with Subtitles)
In his New Year’s message to supporters around the world and back home in West Papua, Mr. Wainggai – speaking in PNG Pijin – urged supporters to speak up against Indonesian colonial oppression and human rights violations, which he said continued unabated in West Papua. As we reported earlier, more than seventy West Papuans have
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Indonesian military murdered 72 West Papuans in 2022 – Rights Group’s Report
A Rights Group in West Papua released a report indicated that the Indonesian government was responsible for the deaths of 72 indigenous West Papuans, a shameful record for a government that lied about its human rights record for decades. And for a world that often infuriated by little things, the government-sanctioned murder of Indigenous West
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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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PNG Police Doing Indonesian Suppression Work in PNG
On December 1, 2022, the West Papuan community in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, gathered to celebrate a day that many West Papuans considered their “Independence Day.“ Unfortunately, the PNG police swept in and prevented them from celebrating. This is disturbing because PNG police are doing what the Indonesian government had been doing to West
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Indonesia urged to account for violence in Papua
RNI – There’s an apparent cover-up of the ongoing violence in West Papua by the Indonesian government, as tensions flared up between the Indonesian police and indigenous people over the murder and mutilation of four indigenous West Papuans by members of the Indonesian Elite Force. Relatives and the ‘Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of
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