Government pledges assurance to investors to realize plans for petrochemical
(26-8-2013) Industry Minister has pledged government help for investors in order to realize plans to build a massive petrochemical complex in West Papua. The Minister met with senior managers of German industrial giant Ferrostaal, which, together with Indonesia’s Chandra Asri, plans to build a US$2 bln petrochemical facility in Bintuni Bay, West Papua, but is […]
Indonesia arrests over 100 Papuans in Sorong
RadioANZ More than 100 indigenous activists were arrested by Indonesian police at the weekend in the West Papua city of Sorong. The police took in 106 activists from the West Papua National Committee, or KNPB, for their involvement in an inauguration of its local governing body last week. The KNPB is a pro-independence West Papuan […]
Indonesian police under fire over arrest of Papuan students, racial abuse
July 21, 2016, By Ryan Dagur in in Jakarta Indonesian Church officials and activists have accused police in Yogyakarta of racism and using excessive force after six Papuan students were arrested for singing Papuan songs in their college dormitory. “Police officers must be fair. They must protect Papuan people too,” Father Paulus Christian Siswantoko, executive […]
Journalist Faces Defamation Probe for Comparing Indonesia’s Treatment of West Papua with Myanmar’s Rohingya
Indonesian police in East Java are investigating a veteran journalist for comparing former President Megawati Sukarnoputri to Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi in a Facebook post. On September 3, 2017, journalist and documentary filmmaker Dandhy Dwi Laksono wrote on Facebook that Megawati and Suu Kyi are alike in many ways, noting that both are former opposition leaders who now head the ruling […]
Papuan students in Yogyakarta attacked by Indonesian police and militia
Reported by AMP Yogyakarta 18th July 2016 Indonesian police and civilian reactionary groups stormed a boarding house for Papuan students in Yogyakarta on Friday. The State-Owned Papuan Dormotory at Kusumanegara Road, Kamasan I was besieged in the early morning of 15th July when mobile brigades (Brimob) of special forces officers forced their way through the […]
WPRA Express Deep Condolences for Families and Friends of Churches Bombings in Surabaya
WPRA Blames NKRI Playing with Jihadists for Financial GainsFrom the Central Headquarters of the West Papua Revolutionary Army (WPRA), Lt Gen. WPRA Amunggut Tabi, on behalf of Gen. TRWP Mathias Wenda Expresses Deep Condolences to Families, Friends and Relatives Killed by Inhuman Bombers in colonial town of Surabaya, Indonesia. Strongly Condemns Indonesian Terrorists as Barbaric and non-human, as being nurtured and kept grow […]
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