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West Papua: Medical staff take their complaints to the DPRP
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 3:45 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The secretary of the provincial administration of Papua has been reported to the police by nurses and midwives who work at the hospital for his deceitful actions towards the medical staff and for conveying false information to the public. He had ... More >>
Indonesia: Brutal attack against journalist Banjir Ambarita
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 3:43 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention ... More >>
West Papua: Nurses arrests violate human rights
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 3:40 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
KontraS Papua, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, is convinced that the detention of five nurses by the police in Papua is a violation of their human rights. KontraS Papua member, Olga Helena Hamadi said that the police should ... More >>
Demonstrations Monday in support of the detained nurses
Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 1:43 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The promise by the chief of police to release the five detained nurses has not yet been kept, even though there were reports last Wednesday that they were going to be released following a meeting between the Papuan legislative assembly, the DPRP, ... More >>
Dialogue needed to solve problems at hospital in Jayapura
Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 1:24 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The problems surrounding the moves to uphold the rights of members of the medical profession - nurses, midwives and assistant medical personnel - at the DokII Hospital in Jayapura have intensified and have now led to their criminalisation. Eight nurses ... More >>
Indonesians have to go home says West Papuan leader
Friday, 18 March 2011, 4:01 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
“We Papuans don’t need Wiki-leaks of US Embassy cables to tell us Indonesian governments are rotten to the core” says West Papua independence leader Herman Wainggai. More >>
Medical personnel arrested in Jayapura for 'inciting strike
Friday, 18 March 2011, 10:50 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Eight nurses and midwives have been arrested in Jayapura for their involvement in a strike that resulting in a halt to services at the general hospital in Jayapura. They face charges of inciting their colleagues to take part in a strike. More >>
More reports about arrest of medical personnel in Jayapura
Friday, 18 March 2011, 10:43 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The National Union of Indonesian Nurses has called on the police in the province of Papua to release the eight nurses who work at the Jayapura Dok II General Hospital. The chairman of the organisation, Marthen Sagrim, said that failure to release the ... More >>
Deadline of 22 March for DPRP to return OTSUS
Friday, 18 March 2011, 10:35 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Several hundred people attended a demonstration in Jayapura on Tuesday 8 March, mostly from the Central Highlands Students Association, urging the provincial legislative assembly, the DPRP, to convene a special session to declare that OTSUS (the special ... More >>
Jay Griffiths is author of Wild: An Elemental Journey
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 4:09 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
In West Papua, singing is a way of life, and the means by which people greet, flirt and protest. And, as Jay Griffiths reports, it is used as a potent form of communication around the world. More >>
Indonesia Could Lift Media Restrictions In Papua
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 2:12 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The Indonesian government says it will consider lifting restrictions banning journalists from the troubled province of Papua. More >>
Members of new MRP urged to resign
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 2:10 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The chairman of the West Papua Forum of Democracy (FORDEM), Salmon Yumame, has declared that the leaders of the MRP - Majelis Rakyat Papua - Papuan People's Assembly - failed to have the courage to acknowledge to the public the mistakes made by the MRP in ... More >>
Jakarta-Papua dialogue needs third-party mediation
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 2:09 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The leaders of a number of churches in Papua have called on the central government to hold a dialogue with indigenous Papuans, stressing that it should be mediated by a neutral third party and held without conditions. More >>
Sokrates Yoman launches book titled 'OPM'
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 2:08 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The Rev. Sokratez Sofyan Yoman has launched a new book titled: Otonomi, Pemekaran dan Merdeka [OPM] - Autonomy, Division and Independence. The 136-page book bears a sub-title: 'Time to Speak the Truth in the Land of Papua'. More >>
Comprehending West Papua
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 2:08 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
"We are Melanesian, not Indonesian!" and "Free Filip Karma!" chanted a group of West Papuans from around Australia - some refugees, some studying in Australia on scholarships -- who had gathered in front of the Indonesian embassy in Maroubra, Sydney, on February ... More >>
Demonstration rejects MRP and criticises GKI Synod
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 10:16 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Several hundred people took part in a demonstration outside the offices of the governor of Papua and the Papua provincial legislative assembly office criticising the position taken by one of the chairmen of the Synod of the GKI church in Papua, the Rev. Yemina ... More >>
The Papuan leader, Socratez Sofyan Yoman
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 10:14 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The Papuan leader, Socratez Sofyan Yoman, the leader of the Alliance of Baptist churches in Papua, is reported to have expressed his lack of confidence in a new unit that is to be created by the government to resolve a range of problems in Papua. More >>
Journalist Stabbed In Indonesia: Banjir Ambarita
Monday, 7 March 2011, 9:32 am | West Papua Media Alerts
In The Early Hours Of 3 March, Journalist Banjir Ambarita Was Stabbed In The Indonesian Province Of Papua. He Is Currently In Intensive Care, Recovering After An Operation. He Is At Risk Of Further Attacks And Intimidation. More >>
Police Chief Resigns in Wake of Oral Sex Scandal
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 12:13 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Jayapura Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Imam Setiawan resigned on Tuesday in the wake of criticism over a recent scandal in which three of his officers forced a female detainee to perform oral sex on them. More >>
Paniai Regional OPM Commander arrested, according to police
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 12:11 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
John Magai Yogi who is said to be the commander of the TPN/OPM in the district of Paniai and who has for some time been on the police 'Wanted' list, has been arrested by the police in Nabire. He was arrested along with one of his men named Usak Gawe. More >>
