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West Papua Report: October 2011
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 3:13 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
This is the 90th in a series of monthly reports that focus on developments affecting Papuans. This series is produced by the non-profit West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) drawing on media accounts, other NGO assessments, and analysis and reporting from ... More >>
State is Obliged to Protect Striking PT Freeport Workers
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:56 am | West Papua Media Alerts
We fully support the strike by PT Freeport Indonesia workers for better wages and conditions. The government must guarantee legal protection to the workers and protect them against intimidation and threats while they are on strike and conducting negotiations ... More >>
Huge gas reserve discovered in Papua
Monday, 3 October 2011, 5:18 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The government said it had discovered a large potential gas reserves in Papua by one contractor or contractor oil and gas cooperation contracts (KKKS). The amount is 100 million cubic feet per day (MMSCFD). More >>
Four Papuan students acquitted of makar charges
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 5:42 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
According to report received today from the defence team of five Papuan students from UNIPA university, four of the five men have been acquitted by a court in Manokwari and will be released immediately. They had faced the charge of makar - subversion ... More >>
PT Freeport Mine Managers Turn Rabid on Indonesian Strikers
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 5:41 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Government-mediated talks broke off last week and labour relations further soured between Freeport-McMoRan and 8,000 striking Indonesian miners of ICEM affiliate FSP-KEP (SPSI), the Trade Union of Chemical, Energy, and Mine Workers (CEMWU). More >>
Union Makes Move to End Freeport Strike
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 9:39 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Chairman of organisational affairs of the union, Virgo Solossa, said that the decision to write to the top management was taken at a meeting with the bugnegal at the Nemangkawi Institute of Mining in Kuala Kencana today. 'We have drafted the letter and given ... More >>
Reports of Securicor Being Used to Break the Freeport Strike
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 9:31 am | West Papua Media Alerts
http://westpapuamedia.info/2011/09/27/reports-of-securicor-being-used-to-break-the-freeport-strike/ More >>
Papuan Prisoners: Kiamus Wenda in Critical Condition
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 9:18 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Received from Solidaritas Korban Pelanggaran HAM Papua (Solidarity for Victims of Human Rights in Papua) [Translated by TAPOL] More >>
Indonesia: Papua Needs Rights-Based Conflict Resolution
Friday, 23 September 2011, 10:24 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Paris-Jakarta-Bangkok, 21 September 2011. The recent spike in violent incidents in Papua in July and August underscore the urgent need for Jakarta to re-assess its military approach to solve the situation of unrest in the region and to place the ... More >>
Freeport strike: Daily loss of US$8.2m for Indonesian Govt
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 3:15 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The Indonesian government is paying serious attention to the strike by thousands of Freeport employees in Mimika. This is clear from the arrival in Jayapura of the minister for energy and mineral resources as well as the director-general for minerals ... More >>
Nafri/Skyland incidents: Alleged OPM members may be charged
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:26 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Two Papuans who are allegedly members of TPN/OPM and who are facing charges in connection with the burning of a taxi and shootings that occurred in Kampung Nafri as well as at Skyland and were arrested on 31 August, are now at the stage of processing by ... More >>
Indonesia backs Palestine at UN, what about West Papua?
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:23 am | West Papua Media Alerts
As the UN General Assembly begins today (21/9) in New York, Indonesia will be in front line of supporting Palestinian efforts to become a member of the United Nations. Indonesia has been supporting the Palestinian case ever since they declared their ... More >>
Freeport Threatened Us: Strikers
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:15 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Freeport employees on strike over wage increase demands claimed they had been intimidated by PT Freeport’s management, which on Friday reported that the copper and gold mining company was losing an estimated US$19 million per day as a result of the strike. More >>
Freeport will not pay striking workers: CEO
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 5:36 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
PT Freeport Indonesia management has decided not to pay its workers on strike since September 15, the company`s president director and CEO Armando Mahler said. More >>
West Papuan Students Welcoming PNG Independence Day
Monday, 19 September 2011, 5:07 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The celebration of the 36th PNG Independence Day welcomed with dances by the West Papuan Student Association in PNG University today (16/2011) in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. More >>
Violence and torture against Papuan detainees
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 12:01 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
A report has been released following a joint investigation into the mistreatment and torture of a group of 15 Papuans in connection with two criminal incidents that occurred recently in West Papua. The report, published by Papuan church leaders, ... More >>
Would An Independent West Papua Be A Failing State?
Friday, 16 September 2011, 10:02 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Asia-Pacific Journal (Japan Focus) Vol 9, Issue 37 No 1 September 12, 2011 'Would An Independent West Papua Be A Failing State?' David Adam Stott “Where it cuts across the island of New Guinea, the 141st meridian east remains one of colonial ... More >>
Komnas HAM is gathering data about the 15 arrests in Skyline
Thursday, 15 September 2011, 3:33 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Although thirteen of the fifteen Papuans who were arrested on 31 August have since been released, the National Human Rights Commission's (Komnas HAM) Papua branch is continuing to pay serious attention to what happened, said Mathius Murib, deputy ... More >>
Indonesia:Soldiers asked not to be provoked by PapuaKillings
Thursday, 15 September 2011, 3:29 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Several Indonesian military (TNI) soldiers have been killed during their deployment in the conflicting area of Papua. Nevertheless, TNI Chief Admiral Agus Suhartono called on TNI officers not to be provoked to commit human right abuses. More >>
RI, Aussie Special Forces launch joint exercise
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 5:51 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The Indonesian Army Special Forces (Kopassus) is currently conducting a two-week joint training exercise with the Australian Special Operations Command (SOCOMD) in the Thousand Islands regency, north of Jakarta. More >>
