We are KNPB activist in Timika, West Papua. Indonesia Police jailed us with no reason. Indonesian police jailed Romario Yatipai, Steven Itlay, Yakonias Womsiwor, Paulus Marsyom, Alfred Marsyom and Yanto Awerkion sinc ...
Violence has again broken out in Indonesia’s troubled province of West Papua, with the Australian-supported counter-terrorism police squad Densus 88 leading the attack. ...
Kelly Kwalik was a West Papuan freedom fighter. He was assassinated by Indonesian police on December 16th, 2009. He waged a resistance movement from the jungles against the Indonesian military and American mining gia ...
Indonesian security forces have arrested several people, including Victor Yeimo, the Chairman of the West Papua National Committee, in West Papua today as demonstrations were held to commemorate the 51st anniversary ...
September 15, 2011. 8,000 of the 22,000 Freeport Indonesia workers went on strike, demanding a wage increase from US$ 3.5 to US$ 7.5 an hour. ...
Freeport McMoRan has suspended operations at its gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia due to fighting among its employees. ...
In view of the fact that there has been no response from Freeport -Indonesia or Freeport McMoran, ‘I, Anthonius Alomang, as executive-director of Lemasa, the Association of Amungme tribal people, herewith warn ...
Responding to reports from the community in Paniai that additional troops are still arriving in Paniai, the deputy chair of the Majelis Rakyat Papua said that this must stop. ...
Around 600 Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers have arrived in Timika, Papua, to help local police guarding areas near PT Freeport Indonesia, where deadly shootings occurred in recent months. ...
Lack of development and basic services, militarization, and exclusion from the mainstream economy have made indigenous Papuans feel deserted and oppressed. ...
Police failed to lift road blockades stopping fuel and food reaching Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold's mining operations in West Papua, after clashes with striking miners and local tribesmen on Friday ...
Unless top leaders from Freeport and Indonesia sit down together to discuss the future of Freeport and security in Papua, the region will become a hotbed of violence and death and foster the rise of a larger scale se ...
Authorities are investigating at least two soldiers in connection with the brutal slaying of two Freeport-Indonesia security men in a mysterious dusk ambush two months ago. ...
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