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Live Blog: 2023 December 1 West Papua Independence Day protests and commemorations

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Indonesian Police arrest 4, beat & shoot rubber bullets to disperse Mako Tabuni's assasination commemoration in Jayapura

Indonesian Police arrest 4, beat & shoot rubber bullets to disperse Mako Tabuni’s assasination commemoration in Jayapura

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HRD Analysis on Oksibil-West Papua Armed Conflict

HRD Analysis on Oksibil-West Papua Armed Conflict

by Solidarity for Indigenous Papuans Conflict Background in Oksibil The armed conflict in Oksibil area is the continuation of the struggle for West Papua freedom started in the 1960s and maintained by West Papua people under Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) Free Papua Movement up to date. Oksibil conflict cannot be minimized down to view the conflict from a single spot; it has to be looked at…

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HRD Report: Information on Internally Displaced People in West Papua - Oksibil

HRD Report: Information on Internally Displaced People in West Papua – Oksibil

by Solidarity for Indigenous Papuans Information on Internally Displaced People in West Papua – Oksibil Above: West Papua map showing the active conflict zones in West Papua including the IDPs location. (Source: google map, additional graphics by Solidarity for Indigenous Papuans) General information on internally displaced people in conflict zones in West Papua Since 1st December 2018 West…

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Extension of Special Autonomy Law Number 21 of 2001 for West Papua by Indonesian Parliament: A One-sided Policy implementation

Extension of Special Autonomy Law Number 21 of 2001 for West Papua by Indonesian Parliament: A One-sided Policy implementation

by Solidarity for Indigenous Papuans Facts on the Special Autonomy The much talked about Special Autonomy Law Number 21 of 2001 was officially extended on 15th July 2021 through the Second Amendment Bill to Law Number 21 of 2001 in the Indonesian Parliament. Summary of facts covered as reported by various media outlets are as follows; the extension was finalized and approved for endorsement…

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Permintaan mendesak kepada saksi garis depan dan sumber dari WestPapuaMedia untuk memaksimalkan liputan internasional tentang Darurat Kemanusiaan di Ilaga, Intan Jaya dan Nduga

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Families of TNI victims in Ilaga, Puncak call on Indonesia to stop killing them in open video plea

From WestPapuaMedia sources, translated and edited for clarity by WPM December 23, 2020VIDEO STATEMENT OF ATTITUDE OF COMMUNITY AND FAMILY OF VICTIMS IN ILAGA, PUNCAK DISTRICT https://vimeo.com/494015085 (Subtitling unavailable currently) An impassioned video statement was made yesterday of the family attitude of the victims of Atonius Murib, Arkis Alom, Les Mosip, Wenis Wenda, killed by the…

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Nduga Investigation Team calls for Jokowi to end enforced disappearances and human rights abuses

Nduga Investigation Team calls for Jokowi to end enforced disappearances and human rights abuses

Press Release – Nduga Human Rights Investigation Team December 15, 202 (WPM TRANSLATION and edited for clarity – apologies for delay in publication) HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION CASES ARE BECOMING DEEPLY ENTRANCED IN NDUGA AND THROUGHOUT PAPUAN SOCIETIES Civilians are always the victims of the barrel of the gun, the fate of the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) who continue to die in the IDP camps…

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PRESS CONFERENCE: MORAL CALL FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTH BY CATHOLIC PRIESTS FROM ALL OVER PAPUA

PRESS CONFERENCE: MORAL CALL FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTH BY CATHOLIC PRIESTS FROM ALL OVER PAPUA

on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2020VIOLENCE BREEDS NEW PROBLEMS;DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION IN A DIGNIFIED WAY WIll RESOLVE CONFLICTS IN THE LAND OF PAPUA1. INTRODUCTIONPapuans, Blessed Lands and Peoples. On February 5, 1855, Missionaries Carl Willem Ottow and Johan Gottlob Geissler set foot on the island of Mansinam – Manokwari. The sprinkling of New Change and Civilization…

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Westpapuamedia mulai ulang terbatas dengan pemantauan langsung untuk 1 Desember/Westpapuamedia limited restart with live monitoring for December 1

Saat WestPapuaMedia bersiap untuk kembalinya pada tahun 2021, kami memiliki Pengumuman penting untuk teman-teman yang sebelumnya telah mempercayai kami sebagai saluran untuk pelaporan perlindungan.

Sumber di Papua Barat – jika Anda belum dihubungi, WestPapuaMedia memulai kembali operasi dalam kapasitas terbatas mulai Kamis 26 November mendatang, menjelang mobilisasi kebebasan 1 Desember.…

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#WestPapuaUprising: We need your help to hold Indonesia to account, now.

#WestPapuaUprising: We need your help to hold Indonesia to account, now.

September 5, 2019

As many people have noticed, WestPapuaMedia has not been publishing our original content for some time at this site (though we have continued to conduct fixing and production for many stories in the international media in this time). This is partly due to the forced shutdown of our crew after massive security costs and operations keeping our clandestine crew safe, thanks to…

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WestPapuaMedia site to go offline until our improved return: Archived on the Wayback Machine

WestPapuaMedia site to go offline until our improved return: Archived on the Wayback Machine

WPM Editorial Statement October 29, 2018Hello readers: As you know, West Papua Media has suspended publishing on our main site for a while now, due to a difficult ethical decision around the unsustainable safety costs for our clandestine journalists, that we faced without little support.   In the meantime, key personnel have been working on the Project FiveArm Secure Crisis Journalism Tool, and…

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JUBI: The turtle population in Kaimana, West Papua Province is almost extinc Plastic waste threaten turtles ecosystem – IST Sorong, Jubi – The Pacific Aquatic Resources Research Center (P2SP2) of Papua University confirmed that the turtle population in Kaimana, West Papua province is almost extinct.

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JUBI: After shooting incident, Freeport workers continue plan to strike The protest action of PT. FI workers in front of Mimika Court on Thursday (April 20th) afternoon – IST Jakarta, Jubi – Two of the five victims of Thursday shooting incident in front of the Mimika Court, Mimika Regency, Papua April 20th 2017 who had been treated at Mimika General Hospital were allowed to go… via After the shooting incident, Freeport workers continue the plan to strike — West Papua No.1 News Portal

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WestPapuaMedia still needs your help for behind the scenes hard work despite publishing break. Also looking for extra folks to help with editorial.

WestPapuaMedia still needs your help for behind the scenes hard work despite publishing break. Also looking for extra folks to help with editorial.

Dear Friends of WestPapuaMedia – We have been asked many times recently why we are not publishing and the explanation of course is here: https://westpapuamedia.info/2016/09/22/westpapuamedia-twitter-feed-sticky-post/ But in short, we cannot publish because we cannot ethically provide our crew on the ground with the support needed to keep them safe and in contingency should they come under…

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Call to consolidate support with West Papua's fight for self-determination

Call to consolidate support with West Papua’s fight for self-determination

Commentary By Surya Anta,  published originally in Koran Pembebasan (Translated by James Balowski, Indoleft)  September 5, 2016 Increasingly broad mobilisations by the Papuan people in recent years shows that there must be a new assessment of West Papuan as an entity. An entity that should be, must be, recognised as a nation. Resistance by the Papuan people existed prior to West Papua's…

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​Breaking: ULMWP membership of Melanesian Spearhead Group decision deferred until September in Vanuatu.

Westpapuamedia July 14th, 2016 Victor Yeimo, Chairman, West Papua National Committee, was in attendance inside the MSG meeting, after the United Liberation Movement for West Papua membership decision was deferred due to a legal wording technicality. Contrary to reports by Indonesia, this postponement has been a technical issue due to confusing legal definitions, and not a rejection of the…

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