Cablegate: U.S. Disdain for West Papua Undiminished
This disgraceful cable from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, is something I truly hoped I would not see. ...

This disgraceful cable from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, is something I truly hoped I would not see. ...
“Mr Speaker, in other words, it was our national policy to sacrifice the lives and future of some 800,000 West Papuan New Guineans to the Indonesian military in exchange, supposedly, for Sukarno and later Suhar ...
‘The reality is grim…’ reads an newly de-classified cable to the Department of State, ‘Now there is no freedom of speech, no freedom of movement, and forceful oppression is the rule ’. ...
The aspiring nation of West Papua has one of the most extensive and pristine stretches of tropical rainforest in the world, home of incredible natural and linguistic diversity. Yet of all the places in the world, few ...