Papua Press Agency

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 time bomb.
“We do not want to see Indonesia separated,” said the Head of Research and Development of the Justice and Human Rights Department Hafid [...]

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 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 [...]

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 statement to the Jakarta Globe, confirmed details of the attack, saying shots were fired at a security convoy near East Levee’s Kali Kopi area at about [...]

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 Indonesia’s restive West Papua province Wednesday, the latest in a series of shootouts that have rocked the area since July.
Wednesday’s attack comes one day after about [...]

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 near Mantembu village after Indonesian Police shot at stomach and foot.
Our informan in Serui said, Indonesian Police very brutal on attach. Many residents of local [...]

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 – PNG border, Wutung Village of New Guinea Island.
Some of the PNG Armed Forces also helping the TRPB fighters by providing logistics and shelters, in the [...]

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 – PNG border, Wutung Village of New Guinea Island.
Some of the PNG Armed Forces also helping the TRPB fighters by providing logistics and shelters, in the [...]

The chief of police in Puncak Jaya has warned an OPM (Organisasi Papua Merdeka, Free Papua Organisation) unit that if it fails to return four weapons seized during a raid last week within three weeks, special action will be taken.

Sejumlah pesan berturut-turut dikirimkan dari lapangan (Posko Exodus Mahasiswa Papua) di Taman Pahlawan Papua Barat bahwa telah terjadi sejumlah intimidasi dan penangkapan atas Aktivis Seblom Sambom, sejumlah mahasiswa lainnya berada dalam ancaman karena selalu diincam dan diteror dengan berbagai cara.
Cara-cara yang sementara ini digunakan adalah dengan mengirim mobil-mobil berkaca gelap, taksi-taksi yang tujuanya tidak jelas, [...]

Cenderawasih Pos, 28 October 2008
Abridged in translation, TAPOL
The chairman of the committee in Jayapura for International Parliamentarians for West Papua, Buchtar Tabuni, the chairmman of Dewan Adat Papua, (DAP) Forkosus Yoiboisembut and DAP secretary general Leonard Imbiri have responded to summons for interrogation by the police, assisted by lawyers from ALDP, Latifah Anum Siregar, [...]