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Papua: Protests after TV journalist beaten by local chief
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 1:09 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Once again, violence has been used in Papua, this time against a television journalist working for the local TV station in South Sorong, TOP TV. Mufriadi who reports on the district of South Sorong was severely beaten by the bupati - district chief - ... More >>
90% of children in Kamoro leave school before completing
Saturday, 10 September 2011, 5:23 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
It is estimated that around 90 percent of children from the Kamoro ethnic group fail to continue their education after completing primary school. There are many reasons for this. More >>
Special Investigation: State terror campaign around Jayapura
Friday, 9 September 2011, 11:52 am | West Papua Media Alerts
A massive upsurge in “mysterious acts of violence” around the Jayapura region of West Papua has many local observers blaming Indonesian security forces. There is a dedicated offensive to “crush separatism” and dissuade Papuan civil society ... More >>
KNPB on the recent acts of violence in Papua
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 4:59 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
According to the KNPB - National Committee for West Papua - the many acts of violence that have been occurring in Papua recently would appear to be part of a scenario designed by certain quarters.' 'This scenario is being promoted by people who want ... More >>
TPN/OPM warned of deadline for return of two weapons
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 4:58 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The executive committee of the Synod of the KINGMI Church in the Land of Papua has responded to the threat issued by the police force in Paniai that failure to hand back two firearms by the end of Wednesday, 7 September would mean that the police ... More >>
Freeport Indonesia Union threatens strike for pay demands
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 11:25 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold's Indonesia mine workers will go on a strike indefinitely from Sept. 15 unless the firm meets their demands on a pay rise, a union official told Reuters on Monday. More >>
Freeport Grasberg Workers Plan Strike Sept. 15, Union Says
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 10:55 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Workers at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX)’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia’s Papua province may hold another strike from Sept. 15 should the company fail to make a new offer on wages increases, a labor union official said. More >>
West Papuans Have Continued To Be Hunted Like Animals
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 10:46 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Even in the recent past West Papuans have continued to be hunted like animals but our resolve has never diminished to win independence and become our own self-governing nation. More >>
Police Deny Torture Claims Following Arrests and Raid
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 10:41 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Police Deny Torture Claims Following Arrests and Raid in Abepura. Jakarta -- Jayapura district police have been accused of torturing 15 witnesses who were initially suspected of being members of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) in a violence related case in Abepura. More >>
Police, unprovoked, shoot man in Merauke
Monday, 5 September 2011, 11:41 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Information has been provided to West Papua Media that in an unprovoked attack, an Indonesian police officer shot a West Papuan teenager on August 30 in Merauke, West Papua. More >>
West Papua: Churches mediate between TPN/OPM and Police/Army
Thursday, 1 September 2011, 2:37 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The churches in Paniai are very concerned about the unsatisfactory situation that has continued in Paniai following an armed skirmish that took place on 17 August, and also about reports that additional troops have been sent to Paniai to search ... More >>
Third Grand Papua Congress to be held this year
Monday, 29 August 2011, 10:57 am | West Papua Media Alerts
A national reconciliation team of the West Papuan people, consisting of a number of organisations that have been outspoken in their views about the problems of the indigenous Papuan people, as well as the policies of the government in Papua, have ... More >>
Seven months and 16 days for Dance Yenu
Monday, 29 August 2011, 10:50 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Dance Yanu has been sentenced to seven months and 16 days by a judge at the Manokwari court after being found guilty of makar (subversion). Reporting the verdict, one of the defence lawyers, Simon Riziard Banundi, said that they were not convinced ... More >>
Papuan peasant killed on the way to his banana garden
Monday, 29 August 2011, 10:48 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Das Komba, 30 years old, left home early in the morning on Friday, 19 August to go to his banana garden, two hundred metres from home to cut down some bunches of bananas for a family celebration. After filling his sack with several bunches he started ... More >>
People of Papua Need Referendum, Not Welfare Measures
Monday, 29 August 2011, 10:45 am | West Papua Media Alerts
After the mass mobilization of the people of Papua on 2nd August 2011, and the conference of the International Lawyers on West Papua (ILWP) in Oxford England, conflicts and various cases of violence continue to occur in Papua. The events attracted reactions ... More >>
Arrival of troops spread panic, say church personnel
Saturday, 27 August 2011, 11:40 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The dispatch of troops by air and land via Nabire has caused panic in Paniai, said a nun working for the Catholic Church in Paniai who did not want her name to be made public. The people from Paniai had just returned home following a firefight between ... More >>
Paniai people call for a halt to deployment of more troops
Saturday, 27 August 2011, 11:38 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Following the armed skirmishes between the Indonesian army and police with a group thought to be the TPN/OPM led by John Magay Yogi, and a number of mysterious shooting incidents, the towns of Enarotali and Madi in Paniai district are full of military ... More >>
Indonesia: Authorities Refuse Prisoner Medical Care
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 3:50 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Papuan political prisoner Kimanus Wenda is in urgent need of medical treatment. He has a tumour in his stomach, and needs to be transferred to a hospital to undergo an operation. Prison authorities have refused to pay for his transport and medical ... More >>
West Papua: Melkianus Bleskadit Sentenced to Two Years
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 3:34 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Melkianus Bleskadit was sentenced yesterday in Manokwari court to two years for his role when the 14-star flag was raised. A day earlier, the prosecutor asked for him to be sentenced to five years. The prosecutor has announced that he will mount an ... More >>
Security Measures Escalate in Papua
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 3:23 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
KNPB, the National Committee for West Papua, is scheduled to announce the results of the meeting organised by ILWP, International Lawyers for West Papua in Oxford, at 9am this morning , at the tomb of Theys Hiyo Eluay. More >>
