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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
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
Papuan human rights group calls for justice over Kelly Kwalik
THE LACK of any firm evidence of the involvement of “General” Kelly Kwalik in a series of recent terrorist actions in Timika, West Papua, has led the Network of Human… Read more
Three Books on Papua to be Banned
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:The government still thinks it is necessary to ban books considered dangerous to the nation’s unity. Certain books could form the wrong collective conscious and trigger a separatist… Read more
SLAINED LEADER WILL SPUR RESISTANCE TO INDONESIAN OCCUPATION AND HEIGHTEN CALL FOR FREEPORT MINE CLOSURE WPNCL CLAIMED
WEST PAPUA NATIONAL COALITION FOR LIBERATION P.O. Box 1571, Port Vila, Republic of Vanuatu, ph: + 678 40808; +61414247468; +6785616733 E-mail: morningstar@vanuatu.com.vu, awulkeweng@yahoo.com, rexruma@hotmail.com For immediate release 17 December, 2009… Read more
Indonesia: Police and soldiers burn houses and destroy resources in Papua’s Bolakme district
Dear friends, 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… Read more
Military Officer Hurt As Ambushes Continue Near Freeport Mine in Papua
Unknown assailants shot and injured a senior military officer in the latest ambush near US-based Freeport McMoRan’s gold and copper mining concession in troubled Papua on Wednesday. Freeport, in a… Read more
Violence plagues Indonesia’s restive province
By Peter Gelling – GlobalPost JAKARTA, Indonesia — Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a military convoy traveling along a road leading to the American-owned Freeport-McMoran Gold and Copper mine in… Read more
Yawan Wayeni Shot Dead By Indonesian Police in Serui
Serui, [opeem] – A member of TPN/OPM region Serui, Yawan Wayeni (39) shot dead by Indonesian Police of Yapen Island at 4.00 A.M, Monday morning. His body found at garden… Read more
TRPB Commander in Chief, Gen. TRPB Mathias Wenda that the war between TRPB and the Indonesian TNI still continues today
SPMNews received further call from TRPB Commander in Chief, Gen. TRPB Mathias Wenda that the war between TRPB and the Indonesian TNI still continues today at the West Papua –… Read more
