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February 1, 2006

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Green Left Weekly - February 1, 2006

Australians protested around the country last week in solidarity with the 43 West Papuan refugees who have been detained by the federal government…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Green Left Weekly - February 1, 2006

Sarah Stephen – Among the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who were transferred to Christmas Island on January 18 are four family groups. They are…

Green Left Weekly - February 1, 2006

Kerryn Williams – The arrival on Australian shores of 43 West Papuan refugees on January 18 has put the spotlight on the long suffering – and…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Green Left Weekly - February 1, 2006

Sarah Stephen – One of the passengers aboard the outrigger canoe that landed on Cape York peninsula on January 18 was a five-year-old child.

January 31, 2006

Sydney Morning Herald - January 31, 2006

Tom Allard – The Indonesian military is using the same tactics of terror in West Papua that were employed during its bloody reign in East Timor,…

West Papua ›› Governance & Public Policy
Financial Times - January 31, 2006

Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – Since his government last year brought about what looks like the end of the separatist conflict in Indonesia's tsunami-…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
The Courier-Mail (Queensland) - January 31, 2006

Greg Poulgrain – Ten US members of Congress have described the arrival on Australian shores by canoe two weeks ago of 43 asylum seekers from West…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
The Australian - January 31, 2006

West Papuan asylum seekers on Christmas Island have told Greens senator Kerry Nettle their families have been terrorised by Indonesian…

January 30, 2006

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Radio Australia - January 30, 2006

Australian refugee advocates say they are alarmed by the Indonesian Government making a direct request to Prime Minister John Howard…

Detik.com - January 30, 2006

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta - Around 25 people from the Papuan Anti-Militarism People's Front (FRPAM) arrived at the offices of the National Human…

Jakarta Post - January 30, 2006

Jayapura – A man was arrested by Jayapura Police officers Saturday, allegedly for hoisting the outlawed Morning Star flag, the symbol…

January 29, 2006

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Melbourne Age - January 29, 2006

Russell Skelton – Australia and Indonesia are headed for a diplomatic crisis over the fate of 43 West Papuan asylum seekers whose claims of…

January 27, 2006

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Radio Australia - January 27, 2006

A group of Papuan asylum seekers being held in immigration detention on Australia's remote Christmas Island is expected to meet their lawyers for…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
TAPOL - January 27, 2006

The Hon John Howard MP
Prime Minister of Australia
C/o Australian High Commission UK
Strand London WC2B 4LA

27 January 2006

January 26, 2006

Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights Press Release - January 26, 2006

Washington, D.C. – The West Papua Advocacy Team at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Center welcomes the initiative of Congressman…

January 25, 2006

ABC Online - January 25, 2006

Reporter: Hamish Fitzsimmons

Peter Cave: A military build-up in the Indonesian province of Papua has heightened tensions between the…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Indonesia Human Rights Committee Press Release - January 25, 2006

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee is calling on the Australian Prime Minister and Immigration Minister to release the 43 West Papuan asylum…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Jakarta Post - January 25, 2006

Ivy Susanti, Jakarta – The Indonesian government urged the group of 43 Papuans seeking asylum in Australia to return home, and pledged that there…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Green Left Weekly - January 25, 2006

Sarah Stephen – On January 18, 43 West Papuans stepped onto Australian soil at Mapoon on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. Amazingly, they…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Melbourne Age - January 25, 2006

Andra Jackson – A Catholic bishop has warned that Indonesian authorities are "trying to get to" the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers on Christmas…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Australia West Papua Association (Sydney) - January 25, 2006

Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
Suite MF 40 Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

January 24, 2006

Jakarta Post - January 24, 2006

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Protesters stormed the Papua legislative council building Monday, demanding Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers be…

January 23, 2006

Jakarta Post - January 23, 2006

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua People's Council (MRP) has formed four teams to gauge public opinion in West Irian Jaya about the…

Detik.com - January 23, 2006

Gunawan Mashar, Makassar - Scores of West Papuan students in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar have also held an…

Detik.com - January 23, 2006

Nova Maulani, Jakarta - A solidarity action over the Freeport tragedy has ended up at the US Embassy. For one-and-a-half hours around 150…

Detik.com - January 23, 2006

Nova Maulani, Jakarta - Flavours of West Papua dominated a demonstration in Jakarta by people from Indonesia's eastern-most province. They were…

Radio Australia - January 23, 2006

Calls are growing for Australia's immigration department to grant immediate protection visas to 43 Papuan asylum seekers who arrived in far north…

Agence France Presse - January 23, 2006

Jakarta – Police in Indonesia's Papua on Monday denied allegations that four students were shot dead in a revenge attack linked to a group of…

Agence France Presse - January 23, 2006

Jakarta – About 200 protesters stormed Parliament in Indonesia's restive Papua province on Monday to demand the withdrawal of troops from the…

January 22, 2006

Jakarta Post - January 22, 2006

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Relatives of a Papuan protester killed by security authorities in Paniai regency two days ago demanded on Saturday…

January 21, 2006

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
ABC News online - January 21, 2006

The Federal Government says it has asked Indonesia for official clarification of reports of a shooting in which one person was killed and two…

Sydney Morning Herald - January 21, 2006

A Papuan man has died and two others are in critical condition after being shot by the Indonesian military yesterday, sparking fears of reprisals…

Sydney Morning Herald - January 21, 2006

Andra Jackson and Mark Forbes, Denpasar – Two West Papua school children were shot dead yesterday by Indonesian soldiers, according to a group…

Jakarta Post - January 21, 2006

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Unidentified security officers opened fire on a group of protesters outside a police station in Paniai regency in…

January 20, 2006

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Australian Coalition of West Papua Support Groups - January 20, 2006

The Australian Coalition of West Papua Support Groups in Australia call on the Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone to allow the 43 West Papuan…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
January 20, 2006

PO Box 15774, Washington, DC 20003

Prime Minister John Howard c/o Embassy of Australia to the United States 1601 Massachusetts Ave, NW…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
ABC News online - January 20, 2006

Australia is being told to expect more asylum seekers to make their way to the country from Papua.

Forty-three Papuan asylum…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Associated Press - January 20, 2006

Sydney – Refugee activists branded the Australian government cruel Friday for flying a group of 43 Indonesian asylum seekers who accused Jakarta…

West Papua ›› Foreign Affairs & Trade
West Papuan People's Representative Office Press Release - January 20, 2006

Port Vila – In the 1960s, the Government of the USA shamefully sold out West Papua as a bribe to Indonesia for its cooperation in halting the…

Agence France Presse - January 20, 2006

Jakarta – Indonesia strongly rejected claims by dozens of refugees who fled eastern Papua for Australia this week that the government was…

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Agence France Presse - January 20, 2006

Sydney – Refugee activists want the Papuan asylum seekers who landed on the north Queensland coast this week to be brought back from Christmas…

January 19, 2006

West Papua ›› Refugees & Asylum Seekers
International Commission of Jurists Australia News Release - January 19, 2006

"The Australian government must respect the rights of the forty West Papuans who have arrived in Cape York. Australia is required to act in…

January 18, 2006

Bloomberge News - January 18, 2006

New York – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. paid Indonesia about US$1 billion since 2004, including for security at the Grasberg mine that…

Asia Times - January 18, 2006

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – The United States and Indonesia have gotten their man in the ambush killings of two Americans in Papua three years ago.…

Jakarta Post - January 18, 2006

Jakarta – The National Police will continue to involve the FBI in resolving the 2002 killings of one Indonesian and two American teachers in…

January 17, 2006

Jakarta Post - January 17, 2006

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Four Timika residents arrested by Papua Police over the killing of two American teachers and their Indonesian…

Jakarta Post - January 17, 2006

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The 2002 killings of an Indonesian and two American teachers in Papua province was caused by local separatist soldiers…

Detik.com - January 17, 2006

Nurfajri Budi Nugroho, Jakarta - Around 40 students from the Papua Students Action Front (FAMP) have demonstrated demanding that…

January 16, 2006

Australia West Papua Association (Sydney) - January 16, 2006

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

16 January 2006

Dear Mr Downer,

January 13, 2006

International Herald Tribune - January 13, 2006

Raymond Bonner, Jakarta – An Indonesian who was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington in connection with the killing of two American…