Members of regional parliaments are increasingly alarmed at the continuing violence in the Indonesian Papuan provinces and at the seeming inability of the Indonesian Government to administer these territories without a large military presence. The refusal of permission for journalists and many aid workers to enter the provinces is a growing cause of concern. On Read more
Credible local sources in West Papua have reported that Indonesian troops have razed a village while conducting a massive offensive against National Liberation Army guerrillas of Goliat Tabuni. Undercover local human right sources have claimed that at 1530 local time on December 3, two platoons from the “Coconut” brigade of Gegana Brimob anti-terrorist police, set Read more
An industrial dispute at Freeport, the world’s biggest gold mine in Indonesia’s Papua province, has turned ugly, after a striking worker was shot dead by police. Seven others were critically wounded when officers tried to stop striking workers from going into a facility at the mining complex on Monday. About 8,000 workers have been on Read more
The arrival of Troops in Paniai, by air and land, has caused panic, said a nun who works there. She did not want her name to be made public. A group of armed men launched attacks in the Papua regency of Paniai as Indonesia celebrated its 66th Independence Day. As the hoisting of the flag ceremony Read more