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TAPOL are recruiting for a six-month paid internship to work alongside us on our West Papua programme. If you speak Indonesian, have good communications skills and want to learn more about campaigning and advocacy, read on!
Komnas HAM and the Ministry of Law and Human Rights have responded to a civil society initiative on Papuan political prisoners, and plan to take action to recommend clemency or remissions.TAPOL translations of three articles published by KBR68H.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the "New York Agreement" (September 1962) which led to Indonesian annexation of West Papua, WPAT offers a reflection regarding that agreement's implications for West Papua, authored by Dr. John Saltford.
This article from KOMISI, a group of students from Intan Jaya in West Papua recounts how the Freeport mining company, through its subsidiaries, established exploration activities in remote Intan Jaya regency over twenty years ago with the help of a western missionary.
By tomorrow, 1 December 2012, the Indonesian people are due to pay the UK government £27 million. Of this, £20 million is for arms sales to past dictator General Suharto.
Writing for Inside Indonesia, Bobby Anderson describes the reality of daily life for rural Papuans, for whom the Indonesian government - for better or worse - is almost entirely absent.