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April 6, 2006

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Jakarta Post - April 6, 2006

Abdul Khalik and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Indonesia may end up breaking its own laws if it keeps trying to secure the return of 42 Papuan asylum…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Associated Press - April 6, 2006

Indonesian importers have called for a boycott of Australian goods as anger grows over Canberra's decision to grant temporary visas to 42 Papuan…

Australian Associated Press - April 6, 2006

Parliamentarians, union leaders and academics have been included on an Indonesian government list of prominent Australians supporting Papuan…

April 4, 2006

West Papua ›› Human Rights & Justice
The Australian - April 4, 2006

Michael Davis – The leader of a group of Papuan refugees granted interim asylum in Australia fears a genocide similar to East Timor if the…

April 2, 2006

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
Associated Press - April 2, 2006

Canberra – Prime Minister John Howard assured Indonesia Sunday that he does not support the separatist movement in Papua after an Australian…

Australian Associated Press - April 2, 2006

Jane Bunce – An Australian Anglican minister says at least 10 people have disappeared in military reprisals since a violent demonstration in Papua…

April 1, 2006

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
Agence France Presse - April 1, 2006

Jakarta – Indonesia has described as "tasteless" a caricature in an Australian newspaper depicting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as a dog.…

March 31, 2006

Jakarta Post - March 31, 2006

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A recent graduate of Cendrawasih University in Papua was shot Tuesday evening by two unidentified assailants, in…

March 30, 2006

Australian Associated Press - March 30, 2006

Lloyd Jones, East Awin, Papua New Guinea – At the age of five, Donatus Kaenop was carried through the jungle and across the border into Papua New…

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
Australian Associated Press - March 30, 2006

One of Indonesia's biggest-selling newspapers has depicted John Howard and Alexander Downer as a pair of sex-crazed dingoes, dragging media…

March 29, 2006

Green Left Weekly - March 29, 2006

Kerryn Williams – After police attacked a protest outside the Cendrawasih University in the West Papuan capital Jayapura on March 16, several…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Green Left Weekly - March 29, 2006

Sarah Stephen – On March 23, the immigration department announced that 42 of the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who arrived in Australia on January…

March 28, 2006

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
Agence France Presse - March 28, 2006

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Fears that Canberra is stoking support for Papua to break away from Indonesia sparked Jakarta's strong reaction last…

March 27, 2006

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
Reuters - March 27, 2006

Canberra – Australia tried to soothe ties with Indonesia on Monday after granting asylum to 42 boat people from the country's troubled Papua…

Melbourne Age - March 27, 2006

Andra Jackson – An anglican minister from Victoria witnessed a confrontation in West Papua between protesters and Indonesian police, who fired…

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
Melbourne Age - March 27, 2006

Damian Kingsbury – Australia's decision to grant 42 West Papuan asylum seekers temporary protection has put the relationship with Indonesia under…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
The Australian - March 27, 2006

Harold Crouch – Indonesians have reacted with outrage at the Australian decision to grant temporary protection visas to 42 of the 43 Papuans who…

The Australian - March 27, 2006

Greg Roberts, Kiunga, Papua New Guinea – Muslim extremists from The Philippines and elsewhere are claimed to be setting up bases in Papua with the…

March 26, 2006

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
TAPOL - March 26, 2006

Tony Blair MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA

26 March 2006

Dear Prime Minister,

Your visit to…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Melbourne Age - March 26, 2006

Tom Hyland – It's unlikely that Alexander Downer believes what he says about the new row that has erupted between Australia and Indonesia over 42…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
The Australian - March 26, 2006

Carmel Egan – Relying on nothing more than the word of a good friend and their faith in God, the West Papuan 43 turned their dugout canoe south…

March 25, 2006

West Papua ›› Church & Religion
Jakarta Post - March 25, 2006

Jakarta – The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) has responded angrily to a government official's allegation that churches have…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
The Australian - March 25, 2006

Greg Sheridan – Is there another boat on the way? This is the question now in Australia-Indonesia relations after the granting of temporary…

The Australian - March 25, 2006

Sian Powell, Jakarta – Hiding in a tattered hut in West Papua's dense jungle and existing on food brought by sympathetic villagers, university…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
The Australian - March 25, 2006

Sian Powell, Jakarta – Indonesian security forces continued to hunt for students in hiding in Papua's jungles yesterday.

While Jakarta…

West Papua ›› Analysis & Opinion
Jakarta Post - March 25, 2006

Jakarta – Although disillusioned and even threatened with losing its relevance, the Papuan People's Assembly (MRP) remains the best available…

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
Australian Associated Press - March 25, 2006

Sydney – The Australian government must take the issue of Papua's right to self-determination to the United Nations, the Greens say.

Greens…

March 24, 2006

West Papua ›› Governance & Public Policy
Jakarta Post - March 24, 2006

Jayapura – Papuan community leaders, smarting at the refusal of a minister to meet with them last week, have accused the central government of…

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
Agence France Presse - March 24, 2006

Jakarta – Indonesia has recalled its ambassador to Australia amid a furore over Canberra's decision to grant temporary visas to 42 asylum seekers…

March 23, 2006

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
ABC Radio - March 23, 2006

Peter Cave – Up to 1,200 students are reported to be hiding in the hills around Jayapura, the capital of Indonesia's Papua province, fearful of…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Australian Associated Press - March 23, 2006

Rob Taylor and Heru Rahadi, Jakarta – Australia's decision to grant temporary visas to 42 Papuan asylum seekers is an "unfriendly" act and…

West Papua ›› Chauvinism & Xenophobia
Joint Press Statement - March 23, 2006

We strongly condemn the statement by Syamsir Siregar, the head of BIN (Badan Inteligen Negara - State Intelligence Bureau) and the Defence…

Asia Times - March 23, 2006

John McBeth, Jakarta – The pretext may have been demands for the closure of Freeport Indonesia's Grasberg copper and gold mine, 500 kilometers…

Radio Australia - March 23, 2006

The Uniting Church in Australia has called for dialogue and calm in the Indonesian province of Papua, in the wake of a violent demonstration which…

Associated Press - March 23, 2006

Jakarta – Indonesia's government Thursday threatened legal action against US mining giant Freeport unless the company improved the environmental…

March 22, 2006

West Papua ›› Chauvinism & Xenophobia
Australian Associated Press - March 22, 2006

Rob Taylor, Jakarta – Indonesia's defence minister wants to blacklist Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle from travelling to Papua, saying her…

West Papua ›› Chauvinism & Xenophobia
Detik.com - March 22, 2006

Iqbal Fadil, Jakarta – The accusations by Syamsir Siregar, the head of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN), that local West Papuan non-…

Agence France Presse - March 22, 2006

Jakarta – Indonesia's Papua remained tense with hundreds of students hiding in the jungle to evade a police manhunt, reports said, as the death…

Jakarta Post - March 22, 2006

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Thousands of students are staying away from their dormitories in Abepura, fearing further reprisals after the…

March 21, 2006

Jakarta Post - March 21, 2006

Israr Iskandar, Padang – Like an irresistible piece of chocolate cake, Freeport has become an issue politicians are eager to talk about.

West Papua ›› Chauvinism & Xenophobia
Herald Sun (Melbourne) - March 21, 2006

Rob Taylor in Jakarta – Indonesia's intelligence chief has accused an Australian-backed aid group of being behind clashes in the province of West…

March 20, 2006

West Papua ›› Human Rights & Justice
Asia Pacific Solidarity Coalition Press Release - March 20, 2006

The Asia Pacific Solidarity Coalition (APSOC) demands an independent investigation into the cases of Indonesian police brutality in West Papua…

Detik.com - March 20, 2006

Jakarta – The National Intelligence Agency (BIN) has accused non-government organisations (NGOs) of sponsoring the bloody incident in Abepura,…

Australian Associated Press - March 20, 2006

Deadly clashes in Papua, in which four security officers were killed by demonstrators, were planned as a stepping stone to full independence for…

March 19, 2006

West Papua ›› Police & Law Enforcement
Jakarta Post - March 19, 2006

Jayapura/Jakarta – Heeding public pressure, the National Police moved Sunday to stop retaliatory measures by ordering its Mobile Brigade (Brimob)…

Associated Press - March 19, 2006

Jayapura – Paramilitary police in Papua pulled people from cars Saturday and beat them, an official said, two days after a mob bludgeoned to death…

March 18, 2006

West Papua ›› Human Rights & Justice
Australia West Papua Association (Sydney) - March 18, 2006

Hon Alexander Downer MP
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

18 March 2006

Dear Mr. Downer…

Indonesian Human Rights Committee Press Release - March 18, 2006

A military crackdown is under way in Indonesian controlled West Papua in the wake of the violent end of a Jayapura demonstration against the…

Reuters - March 18, 2006

Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have detained another 11 people in Papua province after three policemen and a soldier died in clashes with…

The Australian - March 18, 2006

Sian Powell, Jakarta – Indonesian paramilitary police beat and kicked Papuan students yesterday in reprisals for the deaths of three policemen and…