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A Plea from Papuan Church leaders
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 4:03 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Dear brothers and sisters We, Papuan Church leaders send you as our partners, our theological statement issued recently as reflection of our faith over the worsening Human Rights situation in Papua. More >>
Jakarta's Plan for Dialogue with Papua
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 10:21 am | West Papua Media Alerts
We welcome the plan for a Jakarta-Papua dialogue that is now being pursued by the Indonesian Government. Peaceful dialogue is the only dignified way to resolve all the political and humanitarian problems that have persisted in Papua to the present ... More >>
Climate Refugees' Plight In Oscar Spotlight
Monday, 28 February 2011, 10:24 am | West Papua Media Alerts
(Onearth.org/Pacific Media Watch): Carteret Islanders have been called the world's first climate refugees. Their homeland, a remote chain of six small islands in the South Pacific, is fast losing ground to rising sea levels. More >>
Social Networks Have Increasing Influence In Fiji
Monday, 28 February 2011, 10:18 am | West Papua Media Alerts
SUVA (Fijivillage.com/Pacific Media Watch): Social networking websites have a growing influence on the population in Fiji and many business houses and organisations are now changing their attitude towards social media and are looking at ways on how to ... More >>
Report of the arrest of John Magai Yogi
Monday, 28 February 2011, 10:14 am | West Papua Media Alerts
Jhon Magai Yogi is the son of General Thadius Magai Yogi, the Comander of the TPN – OPM Dev II Makodam Pemka IV Paniai with its headquarters in Eduda, was arrested yesterday 26 Feb 2011 by security forces TNI/Police after being sent from Enarotoli ... More >>
SBS Radio - Torres Strait Weapon Smuggling Claims
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 9:51 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The police commander of Papua New Guinea's Western Province says high-powered weapons are regularly being smuggled into the country from Australia's Torres Strait in exchange for drugs. More >>
West Papuans Call For Dialogue With Indonesia
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 9:42 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The ramifications of the fast moving events in Libya and the middle east could be felt as far away as Papua in Indonesia, a Sydney Conference has been told. More >>
Wondering If Government Is Serious About Developing Papua
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 9:41 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Papuan people are doubtful about the government's seriousness and commitment in developing the province of Papua and dealing with the deficiencies in a number of spheres. More >>
Kampung Inhabitants Need More Medical Personnel
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 9:39 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
People living in Mosso kampung, district of Muaratami have urged the Health Service to increase the number of medical personnel available to kampung dwellers because it is very inadequate at present. More >>
Papua New Guinea Raises Concerns Over Arms Smuggling
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 9:38 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
(Note: West Papua Media and illegal arms smuggling investigators have long raised this issue with the PNG and Australian governments, however, evidence collected from the ground has implicated INdonesian military sources, not West Papuan opposition ... More >>
Nurses In Papua Take Their Complaints To Governor & ALDP
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 9:36 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Nurses working at the Dok II General Hospital have taken part in a demonstration at the governor's office, complaining that their rights have been ignored. More >>
DAP (Papuan Traditional Council) rejects transmigration
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 9:35 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, has called on the Indonesian government to be more judicious about plans to send yet more transmigrants to Papua. More >>
KNPB Held Solidarity for West Papua Polical Prisoners
Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 10:22 am | West Papua Media Alerts
On February 17, 2011, KNPB has held a solidarity action to demand the release of political prisoners of Buchtar Tabuni Fileb Karma who still detained at the Papua police headquarters. This action takes the form of fund raising as a form of solidarity ... More >>
Indonesia: Widespread impunity in Papua aggravating tensions
Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 10:10 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is seriously concerned by ongoing, widespread human rights violations and violent acts being committed by the Indonesian security forces in the Papuan highlands in Indonesia. Impunity typically accompanies even ... More >>
Kimanus Wenda's Lawyer Says that He Requires Med. Attention
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 2:02 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
Latifa Anum Siregar, the lawyer acting for the prisoner, Kimanus Wenda, has written to the authorities calling for her client to be moved from Nabire Prison to Jayapura in order to receive the medical attention he needs. She said that he is suffering ... More >>
The Peace, Justice and Creativity Secretariat of the Francis
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 1:58 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The Peace, Justice and Creativity Secretariat of the Franciscans in Papua has refuted a statement by the deputy minister of agriculture, Bayu Krinsa Murti, published in Kompas, describing the MIFEE as a Southeast Asian project for the production of foodstuffs. More >>
Stop Silencing Papuans With The Separatist Stigma
Friday, 11 February 2011, 10:52 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The chairman of Commission A of the provincial legislative assembly, the DPRP, Ruben Magai, has called on the police chief to stop using political stigmatisation when conducting operations in Papua. Such statements, he said, result in scaring the indigenous ... More >>
Papuans Urged Not To Stand For Mrp
Friday, 11 February 2011, 9:20 am | West Papua Media Alerts
The legal aid organisation, LP3BH, has called on Papuans not to agree to be nominated for a seat on the MRP (Papuan People's Assembly) in the forthcoming elections. They should also reject the entire nominations process which is now being organised by ... More >>
New unit (UP4B) to be set up in Papua
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 1:31 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
A new unit, UP4B -Unit Percepatan Pembangunan Papua dan Papua Barat - a Unit to Accelerate Development in Papua and West Papua - is to be set up in March this year for the purpose of handling a number of political and human rights problems as well as development ... More >>
JUBI on deplorable human rights situation in West Papua
Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 12:18 pm | West Papua Media Alerts
The National Human Rights Commission [Komnas HAM] in Papua has called on the Indonesian government to take responsibility for a number of human rights violations that have occurred in West Papua. More >>
