Indonesian People鈥檚 Front for West Papua (FRI-West Papua) spokesperson, Surya Anta was arrested in Jakarta on August 31 and accused of 鈥渟ubversive鈥 acts in relation to his advocacy for West Papua.
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Free West Papua campaigners rallied in several cities on February 12.
The Indonesian government hosted the fifth in Bali on October 29 and 30. It was the latest in a string of oceans-focused summits 鈥 with more on the way, such as the The Economist鈥檚 and the organised by the industry-coalition the World Ocean Council.
New Zealand solidarity activist Maire Leadbeater鈥檚 new book, See No Evil: New Zealand鈥檚 betrayal of the people of West Papua, features a theme also relevant for Australia.聽Both countries were involved in the tragic betrayal of West Papua.
Melbourne researcher into satellite-communication and surveillance Jacob Grech claims Australia is ramping up arms exports to Indonesia at a time when Indonesia is stepping up its militarism in West Papua.
Indonesia has repeatedly fire-bombed a highland village in West Papuam, where indigenous Papuans have lived for thousands of years, the in a July 16 statement.
The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
By Geoffrey B Robinson
Princeton University Press, 2018
429 pages
From October 1965 to mid-1966, one of the worst mass killings of the 20th century took place in Indonesia. Anywhere between 500,000 and more than 1 million people associated with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) were estimated to have been killed and more than 1 million others jailed, some for more than 3 decades, in an anti-leftist purge led by the Indonesian military.
The United Nations has declared May 3 as World Press Freedom Day. But one place where there is still聽no press freedom is Indonesian-occupied West Papua.
Hundreds of refugee families defied a protest ban in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sulawesi on February 21.
They marched from their refugee accommodation to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) with banners and placards that read 鈥淣o one is illegal鈥 鈥淚s there any UNHCR?鈥. A young girl held up a placard, almost as tall as her, that read 鈥淲e are forgotten鈥.
The occupation of West Papua receives little attention in the UK. This is, in no small part, due to Indonesia鈥檚 ban on foreign journalists and its outlawing of West Papuan social movements who try to speak out internationally. However, West Papua has not been forgotten by international corporations, including companies from the UK. For them, Indonesia鈥檚 brutal occupation of West Papua provides lucrative opportunities for profit.
The report below was compiled by the on July 8.
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We have received urgent reports from West Papua that between June 30 and July 6, about 150 West Papuan people were arrested, and many of them tortured, by the Indonesian police for peaceful actions in the Papuan province of Nabire.
鈥淲e have just received聽urgent news聽from West Papua that 200 people have been arrested and 26 tortured by Indonesian police, two days before Indonesia hosts the World Press Freedom Day in Jakarta,鈥 the Free West Papua Campaign said on May 1.
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