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Arming Indonesia: U.S. to sell Apache helicopters

Arming Indonesia: U.S. to sell Apache helicopters

In a first-of-its-kind deal worth about $500 million, the United States has agreed to sell eight new Apache AH-64E attack helicopters and Longbow radars to Indonesia. “Providing Indonesia these world-class heli ...

The fearless Freedom Flotilla sails for occupied West Papua

The fearless Freedom Flotilla sails for occupied West Papua

On August 17th, a group of heroic activists set sail from Cairns, Australia, bound for West Papua in the Freedom Flotilla. Their mission is land on West Papuan soil and use their journey to draw attention to the hum ...

Interview with the late Mako Tabuni, KNPB Chairman
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Interview with the late Mako Tabuni, KNPB Chairman

Mako Tabuni, Chairman of West Papua National Committee talking about position KNPB, and root of conflict in west Papua. He said the best solution for Papua people is referendum. ...

Massive demonstrations across West Papua demanding UN protection

Massive demonstrations across West Papua demanding UN protection

Source: West Papua Media Rallies held across West Papua, Indonesia, and Australia have drawn tens of thousands of people on to the streets calling on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to do more to protect West Papuan ...

Church Leaders Recommend Self-Determination for West Papua

Church Leaders Recommend Self-Determination for West Papua

Papuan Church leaders call for Papua self-determination, the withdrawal of all non-organic troops from Papua, freeing of political prisoners in a meeting with president SBY. ...

Resist State and Corporate Aggression in Papua

Resist State and Corporate Aggression in Papua

The conflict in West Papua has intensified greatly in the last half-year. Violence and aggression towards Papua’s indigenous people and natural environment takes the form of abuses by the state and corporation ...

Calls for neutral probe into West Papua mine deaths
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Calls for neutral probe into West Papua mine deaths

A series of unsolved murders on the private property of one of the world's biggest gold and copper mines has left nine people dead since September. ...

U Don’t Know: West Papua Art By Nobodycorp. Internationale Unlimited

U Don’t Know: West Papua Art By Nobodycorp. Internationale Unlimited

U Don't Know: West Papua Art By Nobodycorp. Internationale Unlimited ...

Indonesia Invites PNG PM To Attend Bali Democracy Forum

Indonesia Invites PNG PM To Attend Bali Democracy Forum

The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has invited PNG Prime Minister, Peter ONeill, to attend the Bali Democracy Forum later this year. The invitation is for Mr ONeill to attend the annual forum to pa ...

An Open Letter To President Yudhoyono

An Open Letter To President Yudhoyono

Sovereign borders are man-made, they are not static, they are dynamic. They are steered by the forces of time. ...

War in West Papua Escalates, Claims Civilian Casualties

War in West Papua Escalates, Claims Civilian Casualties

The Indonesian government has closed off access to the Tingginambut district to both Indonesian and foreign human rights and media observers, and local activists have had to march for days across rugged terrain to ge ...

Indonesia Embezzled $2.2 Billion of “Special Autonomy” Funds from West Papua

Indonesia Embezzled $2.2 Billion of “Special Autonomy” Funds from West Papua

Papuans have long complained that most of those funds have been siphoned off by civilian and military bureaucrats with little money left for improving the plight of Papuans. ...

Winning the Information War in West Papua

Winning the Information War in West Papua

“The Indonesian Government doesn’t want the media to have access — because the Indonesian Government is afraid for the world to know.” ...

Injustice Reigns in West Papua Torture Trial

Injustice Reigns in West Papua Torture Trial

Three soldiers were captured torturing suspected West Papuan separatists, often to death, in videos that widely circulated the web. ...