By Max Lane

Executive Summary

[Earlier this year, New Matilda sent British journalist Michael Gillard into West Papua, one of the most dangerous regions on earth for reporters.

By Max Lane, Singapore

Executive summary

Washington, D.C.

By Jarryd de Haan

Indonesia failed to address past human rights violations. The rights to freedom of expression, of peaceful assembly and of association continued to be arbitrarily restricted.

Victims of serious human rights violations committed during the Indonesian occupation (1975-1999) continued to demand justice and reparations.

By Max Lane

Executive summary

Victims of serious human rights violations committed during the Indonesian occupation (1975-1999) continued to demand justice and reparations.

Broad and vaguely worded laws were used to arbitrarily restrict the rights to freedom of expression, of peaceful assembly and of association.

By Max Lane

By Max Lane

Executive summary

Impunity persisted for gross human rights violations committed during the Indonesian occupation (1975-1999).

Security forces faced allegations of human rights violations, including the use of unnecessary or excessive force.

By Max Lane

Executive summary

By Max Lane

Executive summary

By Max Lane

Executive summary

Ross Tapsell, guest contributor – Over the weekend Indonesia's President, Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo, promised to give foreign journalists full access to Papua – the home of a decades-long se

By Made Supriatma

Police

Made Supriatma – In his meeting with TNI elites, President Joko Widodo reportedly agreed to a proposal to expand the army's territorial command in West Papua.

By Camellia Webb-Gannon and Jim Elmslie

Introduction

By Max Lane

Executive summary

By Max Lane

Executive summary

Degeneration of the vanguard from the anti-dictatorship period

By Max Lane

Executive summary

Contents

David Adam Stott – Compared to its Asian neighbors, Indonesia was late to join the so-called third wave of democratization that began in southern Europe in the 1970s.

By Ian Wilson

Executive summary

Jennifer Robinson – As the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) prepares to consider West Papua's application for membership, it is important for member states to consider international law

Head of state: Jose Maria Vasconcelos (Taur Matan Ruak, replaced Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta in May)
Head of government: Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

Head of state and government: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Competitive, credible, and fair local elections in Jakarta and the province of West Kalimantan in 2012 underscored the ongoing transition from decades of authoritarian rule in Indonesia

Leonie Tanggahma – For more than 50 years, the Morning Star Flag has been the symbol of West Papua's unity and its quest for Freedom and Justice.

Philip Jacobson – There has been talk of an arms deal between the United States and Indonesia. Reportedly on the table are eight Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters.

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Gerry Van Klinken – There is bitter irony here. Even for the winning side, this bloody outcome was not optimal.

Australia's invasion of East Timor (yes, really) [1] in December 1941, is widely assumed to have been made in order to expel Japanese forces from the territory.

Overview

Chronology of the Congress

A. Opening of the Third Papuan Congress

The Third Papuan Congress was held from 17 October and attended by Papuans from across the territory of Papua.

David Adam Stott – "Where it cuts across the island of New Guinea, the 141st meridian east remains one of colonial cartography's more arbitrary yet effective of boundaries."1

Fien Jarangga & Galuh Wandita – Papuan women have been suffering terrible violence both outside and inside their homes for the past 40 years, and for most of that time, they've suff

1. Introduction