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Freeport: DAP Chairman calls for Police and Army Withdrawal
Monday, 17 October 2011, 11:10 am | West Papua Media Alerts
http://westpapuamedia.info/2011/10/16/dap-chairman-calls-for-the-withdrawal-of-police-and-army-from-around-freeport/ More >>
LP3BP: The Papuan People's Right to Self Determination
Monday, 17 October 2011, 11:02 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The Institute for Research, Recognition and Development of Legal Aid, in Manokwari was set up on 12 October 1996 in order to provide judicial services to Papuan people who are lacking in social, economic and political capacity. It was set up by NGO ... More >>
AWPA calls on US government to investigate killing at Freepo
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:38 am | West Papua Media Alerts
AWPA has written to the US Ambassador in Canberra (letter below) asking that the US Government investigate the killing of Petrus Ayamiseba to see if Freeport management is using the security forces and its own security staff to intimidate workers to ... More >>
President Calls for Justice On Killing of Freeport Protester
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:25 am | West Papua Media Alerts
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono demanded that punishments be handed down to police and other law enforcers who fired shots that killed one protester and injured several others in a PT Freeport Indonesia demonstration in Papua on Tuesday, the presidential ... More >>
Indonesia Freeport Workers Blockade Mine
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:23 am | West Papua Media Alerts
More than 1,000 workers on strike at a giant Indonesian mine owned by US company Freeport McMoRan blocked the only road to the facility Wednesday, days after a deadly clash with police. More >>
Indonesian Police open fire on student dormitory in Jayapura
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 2:58 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Plain clothes Indonesian police agents in Jayapura opened fire late on October 12 outside a student dormitory, in another violent act of security force intimidation before the Third Papuan People's Congress starts on October 16. More >>
Freeport Workers Want Replacement of Papuan Police Officials
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 11:38 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The Freeport worker coalition has urged National Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo to replace top police officials in Papua. A spokesman for the Workers Coalition of Freeport Indonesia, Dorus Wakum, said that Papua Police Chief Insp. Gen. Bikman Tobing ... More >>
Demonstration in support of ILWP fails to reach destination
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 11:36 am | West Papua Media Alerts
A demonstration organised by KNPB, the West Papua National Committee, in support of the ILWP, the International Lawyers for West Papua, was unable to reach its intended destination, the office of the DPRP, and the governor's office. More >>
Papua:Government & UN should accept Third Congress Decisions
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 11:34 am | West Papua Media Alerts
DAP chairman says Third Congress decisions should be accepted by the government and UN members More >>
People's Liberation Party chronology of Freeport shooting
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 4:51 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The People's Liberation Party (PPR) reports that a person was shot dead by security forces during a clash with thousands of PT Freeport Indonesia employees at the Gorong-Gorong bus terminal in Timika, West Papua, on the morning of Monday October 10. More >>
Papua: Kontras condemns police shooting of Freeport workers
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 9:46 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Kontras, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence has condemned the shooting of Freeport workers who were seeking negotiations with the management of the company. Since the commencement of the strike on 15 September there has been ... More >>
West Papua: Greens concerned over escalation of conflict
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 9:42 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Greens’ spokesperson for West Papua, Senator Richard Di Natale, has expressed his deep concern for those involved in the violent clashes at the Grasberg mine site in West Papua, where ongoing pay disputes have led to one protester being killed ... More >>
Thousands expected to attend Third Papuan People’s Congress
Monday, 10 October 2011, 11:51 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The Third Papuan People’s Congress is due to commence in a week’s time. According to Selpius Bobii, chairman of the organising committee and Forkorus, Yaboisembut, chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, a number of international personalities ... More >>
Papuan provincial assembly’s recommendations on Freeport
Monday, 10 October 2011, 11:48 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The efforts being made by the DPRP (the Papuan provincial legislative assembly) to persuade the CEO of Freeport Indonesia to attend a meeting between the trade union, the SPSI, and related organisations, have apparently failed. More >>
West Papuans : Where Is Democracy And Safety?
Friday, 7 October 2011, 3:27 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Today at 8 am Washington time, I received an email about many West Papuans coming from different places to attend the West Papua National Authority meeting will be held on 8-10 th October 2011 in the capital city of West Papua and West Papuan Peoples ... More >>
Reuters: Freeport Union Extends Strike for Another Month
Friday, 7 October 2011, 2:25 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Union workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc’s extended their strike at a massive Indonesian gold and copper mine on Thursday for a second month, the longest strike in the country’s mining industry. More >>
“Deal with the rectification of history first”
Friday, 7 October 2011, 2:22 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
JAYAPURA – The claim made by the Committee for the Third Papuan People’s Congress (scheduled for 16–19 October) that they already have the support of the government has received a pessimistic response from a member of the DPRP, the Papuan Provincial ... More >>
A security force of 4,000 for Third Papuan People's Congress
Friday, 7 October 2011, 2:17 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Jayapura: The Third Papuan People's Congress [KRP] which is due to take place from 16 - 19 October will be provided with a security force of four thousand Papuans, according to the chairman of the KRP committee, Selpius Bobii, when he handed over ... More >>
Primary Schools in Rural Papua: They Need Our Support
Friday, 7 October 2011, 2:13 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
http://ecosocrights.blogspot.com/2011/10/sekolah-dasar-di-pedalaman-papua-mereka.html#more A high school teacher in District Maybrat, West Papua Province, was forced to stop the lessons that had just begun. Severe headache suddenly attacked him, after he ... More >>
Freeport-Indonesia wages the lowest in the world
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 3:48 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Thousands of workers from Freeport Indonesia have been on strike since 15 September demanding higher wages and better personal welfare, bearing in mind the great risks that their work involves. The wages they currently receive are far from adequate ... More >>
