Further information on UA: 212/11 Index: ASA 21/019/2011 Indonesia Date: 11 July 2011 Date: 14 January 2011

In recent weeks, highly regarded West Papuan non-governmental and religious organizations which promote respect for human rights have spoken out forcefully regarding the deteriorating h

Organizations based in more than a dozen countries today issued a statement of support for West Papuan organizations appealing for justice and human rights.

Congressman Faleomavaega announced today that the West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) has named him the 2011 recipient of the John Rumbiak Human Rights Defenders Award.

Ref: TG ASA 21/2011.029. Index: ASA 21/020/2011

Jakarta/Brussels – Indonesia should put the passage of a controversial intelligence bill on hold until there is a more comprehensive assessment of its security needs.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-121-2011

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Declaration on peace In Papua

With thanks to Almighty God,

The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urge the military to make open to the public the upcoming trial in a ca

Nick Chesterfied – Confirmed reports emerged on Sunday from Puncak Jaya, West Papua, that over 600 Indonesian Army (TNI) troops have been conducting daily full combat operations since J

Index: ASA 21/018/2011

UA: 212/11 Index: ASA 21/017/2011

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-120-2011

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AHRC-STM-083-2011 – A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, June 26, 2011

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-117-2011

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AI Index: ASA 21/015/2011

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-115-2011

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Indonesia's support for an international convention on domestic workers must be followed by the enactment of a domestic workers' law in Indonesia, Amnesty International said today.

Yones Douw, a human rights activist in the Indonesian province of Papua, was beaten by military officers on 15 June and has been denied medical treatment.

Indonesia has often failed to successfully prosecute crimes targeting religious minorities, exacerbating a culture of violent persecution.

June 16, 2011

Jakarta/Brussels – Five years after the first post-conflict elections in Aceh brought former guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, GAM) to power, local elections s

Index: ASA 21/012/2011

AWPA has written to the Pacific Islands Forum leaders urging them to discuss the human rights situation in West Papua at their summit in Auckland in September (letter below).

Indonesia's election to the Human Rights Council should be an impetus for rights reform at home.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Merdeka Palace
Jakarta, Indonesia

Via facsimile, email

Dear President Yudhoyono,

Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
PO Box 28, Spit Junction
Sydney, Australia 2088

7 June 2011

Re West Papua and Pacific Islands Forum

The Indonesian government must end the use of caning as a form of punishment and repeal the laws that allow it in Aceh province, Amnesty International said today after at least 21 peopl

Dear comrades,

To all components of West Papuan society,
inside and outside of the Land of Papua

Liberation greetings,

Today, May 1, 2011, We the people of West Papua mediated by the West Papua National Committee [KNPB] give our statement that:

In the aftermath of the bloody tragedy that began on April 13 2011, the people of Dogiyai Regency have fled their homes.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-079-2011

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AI Index: ASA 21/010/2011

"Together for the History of the Star of the East"

A statement from Amnesty International, KontraS, Imparsial, Elsam, Setara Institute, ICRP, HRWG, ANBTI, ILRC and Wahid Institute.

AWPA is encouraged by the statement from the Chairman of the MSG meeting, Ratu Inoke Kubuabol that "The Melanesia Spearhead Group feels for their brothers and sisters in West Papua".

The Indonesian parliament with the government plans to ratify the State Intelligence Bill draft to become the Law of Intelligence in 2011.

The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP
Minister for Foreign Affairs
PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

In an open letter to the leaders of the MSG, AWPA calls on the MSG to give full membership to the Melanesian people of West Papua.

Following a series of violent incidents against religious minorities, including the Ahmadiyah community, two regional administrations in Indonesia had issued local decrees banning the A

UA: 77/11 Index: ASA 21/008/2011 Indonesia Date: 16 March 2011

Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
PO Box 28, Spit Junction, Sydney, Australia 2088
Ph/fax 61.2.99601698 email: bunyip@bigpond.net.au

UA: 53/11 Index: ASA 21/004/2011. Indonesia Date: 03 March 2011

West Papuan solidarity groups met in Sydney on the 26 February to discuss issues of concern in relation to West Papua including the deteriorating human rights situation.

Dear brothers and sisters

Jakarta – We welcome the plan for a Jakarta-Papua dialogue that is now being pursued by the Indonesian Government.