Commission investigates abuses in West Papua
Indonesia's National Commission on Human RIghts is currently investigating human rights violations and atrocities in West Papua.
Indonesia's National Commission on Human RIghts is currently investigating human rights violations and atrocities in West Papua.
A group of NGOs is urging the Indonesian government not to permit any more oil palm plantations in West Papua.
A West Papuan man was shot and killed by Indonesian police on August 9, the UN Day for Indigenous Peoples.
Six West Papuans are to be charged with ‘subversion’ after peacefully raising the banned West Papuan independence symbol, the Morning Star flag. The protest took place in the town of Fakfak, which is 550 miles to the west of the capital, Jayapura.
Doctors fear that the number of Papuans living with HIV/AIDS far exceeds the government’s figures.
Indonesia’s foreign minister has defended his government’s policy of restricting access by foreign journalists and human rights monitors to the troubled province of Papua.
Fears are growing about the spread of cholera amongst tribal people in West Papua, Indonesia. Human rights and church workers report that in the last three months, 85 people have died from the disease.
Thirteen Indigenous Papuans were arrested on 13 March in the town of Manokwari, West Papua, for taking part in peaceful demonstrations against the 2007 law banning the display of the Papuan Morning Star flag.