Papua Press Agency

BAGUS EKUDANTO, Commander of Police in Papua Province ordered AKBP IMAN SETYAWAN (S.Ik) Head of Police of Yapen Regency to ‘clean’ the West Papuan political movement in Yapen, including the old village of Mantembu in the valley of Mt Wayoi.
On Sunday 2 August the police kidnapped seven people from Mantembu and took them to Jayapura [...]

West Papua is a province of Indonesia on the western end of Papua island. It covers the Bird’s Head (or Doberai) Peninsula and surrounding islands. The province has a population of approximately 800,000, making it one of the least populous of all Indonesian provinces. The capital of West Papua is in Manokwari.
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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 [...]

When Heinrich Harrer finally walked into ‘the stone age’ at Jae-Li-Me after a long period of effort and danger from both the extreme environment and some hostile villages he described it as one of the most striking moments of his travelling life.
In a region which has gone from cannibalism to Rolling Stones t-shirts and hundreds [...]

Colonization of West Papua Indonesia. No data

Sources
Human Rights Watch

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Designer
Philippe Rekacewicz assisted by Cecile Marin, Agnes Stienne, Guilio Frigieri, Riccardo Pravettoni, Laura Margueritte and Marion Lecoquierre.

Appears in
Vital Forest Graphics

Published
2009

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he view of Raja Ampat is similar with the view of Phi Phi Island, Thailand. Phi Phi Island was the place [...]

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GOLD & COPPER PROJECT
Nickelore Limited (ASX:NIO) wishes to advise that it has signed a formal option agreement to acquire up to a 51%
interest in a gold and copper project in Papua Province, Indonesia (”Papua Gold & Copper Project”). The Company
previously announced on 12 August 2009, the signing of a heads of agreement in relation to [...]

And it’s not just the Tar Sands: BP’s petroleum extraction is associated with poverty, militarization and local environmental degradation all around the world. Human Rights Watch details specific problems around BP’s operations in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and in Indonesia. In Alaska BP has been fined for fraud and environmental crimes relating to oil spills. BP [...]