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West Papua: Yoman Socrates receives summons over statements made on Police actions
West Papua. Pacific Scoop: Report – Translated by TAPOL Bintang Papua, Jayapura: Yoman Socrates: Church is not subordinate to government or security forces – A summons from the police in… Read more
Papuans yet to make formal decision on rejecting special autonomy status
Posted at 03:25 on 04 August, 2010 UTC No official decision was made at a special sitting of the upper house of the Papua provincial parliament to formally return special… Read more
US scientist in race to learn from Indonesia’s dying glacier
(AFP) JAKARTA — The only glacier in the western Pacific could disappear in less than five years, taking with it vital clues about the earth’s changing climate, a US scientist… Read more
Indonesia’s Last Glaciers
Images of glacier-capped Puncak Jaya, earth’s highest mountain between the Andes and the Himalayas, and an expedition to remove ice cores that may contain clues to climates of the past… Read more
Indonesia’s last glacier will melt within years from Earth Blog
Indonesia’s Puncak Jaya, earth’s highest island peak and the tallest mountain between the Andes and the Himalayas, holds the last glaciers in the tropical Pacific. Ancient ice from such high,… Read more
Indonesia’s last glacier will melt within years
By ROBIN McDOWELL (AP) – 5 days ago JAKARTA, Indonesia — Lonnie Thompson spent years preparing for his expedition to the remote, mist-shrouded mountains of eastern Indonesia, hoping to chronicle… Read more
Papua’s separatist fires burn bright
JAKARTA – Shootings, protests and violent attacks are on the rise in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province, home to a low-level separatist struggle and the operations of US mining giant Freeport… Read more
Police chief in Papua attacks media for painting a bleak picture
Posted at 21:34 on 14 June, 2010 UTC The chief editor of an independent newspaper in Indonesia’s Papua region has denied a claim by Papua’s police commander that journalists covering… Read more
ANALYSIS: West Papuans Hope Obama Will Create Change During Indonesia Visit
Analysis – By West Papua Advocacy Team. SPECIAL FEATURE: West Papua Report June 2010 The West Papua Advocacy Team editorially notes that Papuans are welcoming the June visit of President… Read more
Indonesia troops storm through West Papua village killing seven people
A media watchdog NGO that observes human rights abuses in West Papua has received reports from Puncak Jaya stating that Indonesia troops have stormed through a village killing seven people…. Read more
