Papua Press Agency

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) continues to receive reports of violence being wrought by soldiers and police against civilians in remote West Papuan villages. In the latest case a joint operation responded to an illegal flag raising by the banned Free Papua Movement with indiscriminate violence against civilians. Soldiers have reportedly burned [...]

by Damien Kingsbury
As we learned from foreign minister Stephen Smith last night, there is now an agreement between the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for Indonesia’s to accept asylum seekers bound for Australia. Move over John Howard’s “Pacific Solution”, and make way for Rudd’s “Indonesia Solution”.
Rudd will take considerable satisfaction [...]

In the innocence of childhood
I saw  pictures
Of fathers and children
Much like me and my dad
Of women with bilums
Like grandma and mum
Why do they flee
When the land is theirs?
In the innocence of childhood
I saw  dark haired  strangers
In photos  all in green
Bearing tools of war
With a man just like
My uncle Jimmy
Laying dead at  their feet
Why did they [...]

The Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
Press Release 19 October 2009
It is to be hoped that Prime Minister Rudd will also raise the issue of West Papua on his trip to Indonesia for the inauguration of the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday. Joe Collins of AWPA said “although the issue of [...]

The Indonesian embassy in Papua New Guinea has denied that West Papuan refugees who are repatriated to Indonesia will be in danger at the hands of the security forces when they return.
Indonesia’s government is planning a mass repatriation of about 400 Moresby-based refugees next month, having offered to fund any West Papuans who want to [...]

By John M. Gorrindo
Indonesian Correspondent
Papuan Fault Lines: Part III:  Perilous Path to Special Autonomy
In the wake of World War II’s ashes Indonesia rose like a Phoenix, blazing forth in the vanguard of the new world order that emerged. It established itself as the first major colony to throw off its age-old yoke of servitude and [...]

Cepos, 18 Oktober 2008 08:22:21
JAYAPURA-Dari 147 narapidana (Napi) Lembaga Pemasyarakatan (LP) Abepura yang masuk dalam Daftar Pencarian Orang (DPO), 10 diantaranya telah ditangkap. Ke-10 Napi tersebut kini ditempatkan ruang isolasi sebagai sanksi dan bentuk penanganan agar tidak keluar lagi dari LP.
“Kami konsisten dengan aturan yang ada, memang ada ruang khusus untuk mereka yang menjadi DPO [...]