Rt Hon Winston Peters,
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Parliament Buildings,

Wellington 18 March, 2008

Dear Winston Peters,

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The Hon Stephen Smith MP
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Parliament House
Canberra
ACT 2600

17 March 2007

Dear Mr Smith,

"Papuans still are subject to torture, ill-treatment, arbitrary arrests and unfair trials by the Indonesian authorities," said the World Council…

Jayapura – It appears that the police will show not tolerance to those who unfurled the Morning Star flag during a demonstration on grounds of the…

Timika, Papua – Four Australian military attaches arrived at the Mimika district town of Timika on Wednesday for a two-day working visit in…

Jayapura – The controversial issues of using separatist symbols such as the morning star flag on any accessories has become one of…

Indonesian police have arrested 11 people in Papua for raising the Morning Star flag.

Police broke up a rally in the west of the…

Vidhyandika Perkasa, Jakarta – No significant progress has eventuated in Papua as far as sociocultural, political and economic dimensions are…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A women's alliance has called the campaign against HIV/AIDS infection in Papua ineffective, citing the steep rise…

Washington, D.C.

In a letter dated March 5, 2008 to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega, Chairman…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Growing demands for a self-determination referendum show the Papuan people are fed up with corruption caused by the…

Biak – After having meetings with the DPRP, the MRP and the Papuan provisional government, a team from Komnas HAM visited Biak Numfor…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The government will issue an emergency government regulation within the next two months to justify the formation of West…

Jayapura – Two Papuan students detained after a pro-Papuan independence demonstration were released after paying bail to the local…

Jayapura, Papua – Papuan members of the West Papua National Authority gathered Monday to demand the government hold a referendum,…

Adpara, Jayapura – An association of former Papuan fighters urged greater government efforts to publicize a regulation that prohibits…

A series of demonstrations calling for a referendum on Papuan self-determination have been taking place today in several main towns of…

The Papua People's Assembly, the MRP, says it's pursuing dialogue with Jakarta in an effort to stop the proposed formation of a new…

Joe Collins from the Australia West Papua Association said that "Mr. Debus is the 10th Federal Government Minister to visit Indonesia since the…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Two senior campaigners of the Papua Free Movement (OPM) surrendered over the weekend with a statement praising the…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Residents of Papua's Pegunungan Bintang regency on Tuesday voiced their opposition to the proposed formation of a…

Angela Flassy, Jayapura – Two Papuan intellectuals have expressed deep concern over a bill on the formation of four new provinces in Papua, which…

Congress of the United States
Committee on Foreign Affairs
U.S. House of Representatives
Washlngton, DC 20515

Telephone: (202) 225·…

At least 100 people demonstrated Monday in Jayapura, Papua's capital city, to demand the dissolution of the Papuan People's Assembly (MRP), which…

We

1. declared West Papua as 'Land of Peace' on the 5th February 2002.

2. made an appeal to the international community to have 'an…

Joe Collins from the Australia West Papua Association said that AWPA is still concerned about the ties with the Indonesian military that the…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua needs a mediating force to oversee an effective implementation of special autonomy, similar to that in…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papuan People's Assembly (MRP) and the Papuan Legislative Council (DPRP) have rejected a proposal by the House…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Threats and intimidation against rights defenders increased in Papua and West Papua provinces in 2007 while efforts at…

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday gave extraordinary praise for former dictator Suharto's role…

A religious leader in Indonesia's Papua has called for Jakarta lawmakers to consult with Papuans before going ahead with their plan to…

Neles Tebay, Abepura, Papua – Since the fall of Soeharto's regime, Indonesia has apparently begun to move toward democracy. Indonesian citizens…

A London-based Papuan activist has criticised the Governor of Indonesia's Papua for upholding a ban on the Morning Star Flag.

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It may not look very scary to you or me, but to the Government of Indonesia it is a dangerous threat to the "unity of the nation". No, it's not an…

Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu said Wednesday the province would uphold a newly issued government regulation that bans the use of…

Neles Tebay, Abepura, Papua – Papua Province has been the only Indonesian province still rebellious against the Jakarta-based central government…

Jayapura (UCAN) – Religious leaders in Papua have discussed violations of a six-year-old autonomy law for their province and sent recommendations…

American Samoa Congressman Faleomavaega has written to the Indonesian President expressing his disappointment over a recent trip to Papua, and…

Neles Tebay, Abepura, Papua – Papua holds one of the largest areas of forest in the Asia Pacific region. It is also both a home and the grounds…

Congressman Eni F. H. Faleomavaega
Territory of American Samoa
US House of Representatives

Washington, D.C. – In his letter dated…

Angela Maria Flassy, Jayapura, Papua – State prosecutors seized Friday 60 copies of a book they say could divide Papua politically, while critics…

A Papuan human rights campaigner has been formally charged with insulting Indonesia's president in a series of mobile phone SMS text…

Gede Suardana, Denpasar – The United States' stand in refusing to reduce emissions in order to overcome global warming has received a…

Although the 7 December 2000 Abepura case is now closed according to the law, victims of this bloody incident are not satisfied. On Friday this…

Mark Forbes – Papua will ban all log exports from next month, in a radical move to preserve one of the world's largest remaining tracts of…

Jayapura – The case of the hoisting of the Kejora flag on 1 December in Timika is being intensively handled by the Mimika police with back-up from…

Ellie Simmonds – Campaigners showed solidarity with their fellow countrymen by raising the West Papuan flag over Oxford Town Hall.

Exiled…

Indonesia's military is exploiting prejudices against indigenous Papuans so it can remain in the impoverished region, an Australian researcher…

Jakarta – Police released 14 people they arrested after a ceremony to mark the anniversary of West Papua's declaration of independence…

More than 20 people were reportedly arrested in Indonesia's Papua as they raised the outlawed "Morning Star" separatist flag.

A…