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On 22 March, Radio New Zealand reported that Jeffery Bomanak, the chair of the Free Papua Movement (OPM), stated that the group was willing to negotiate with both the Indonesian Government and TPNPB-OPM to secure the safe release of Mehrtens. Bomanak also urged Indonesia not to launch any military operations that could endanger Mehrtens' life. [32]
However, in Washington, D.C. there was a desire for Indonesia to release CIA pilot Allen Pope, [10] and there was a proposal for United Nations trusteeship of West New Guinea, [11] Indonesian President Sukarno said he was willing 'to borrow the hand of the United Nations to transfer the territory to Indonesia', [12] and the National Security ...
Indonesia is regularly accused of human rights abuses, including attacks on OPM-sympathetic civilians and detaining those who raise the Morning Star flag under accusations of treason. [ 35 ] As a result of the transmigration program , which since 1969 has included migration to Papua, about half of inhabitants of Indonesian Papua are migrants ...
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The West Papua National Liberation Army (Indonesian: Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Papua Barat; abbreviated as TPNPB), officially referred to in Indonesia as the Armed Criminal Group (Indonesian: Kelompok Kriminal Bersenjata, [1] abbreviated as KKB), and after 2021, Separatist Terrorist Group (Indonesian: Kelompok Separatis Teroris, abbreviated as KST [2]), is a Western New Guinean insurgent ...
The Indonesia omnibus law protests (previously known as omnibus bill protests and referred colloquially as the omnibus law protests or anti-omnibus law protests; Indonesian: unjuk rasa tolak omnibus law) were a series of demonstrations and civil disorder against Indonesia's Omnibus Law on Job Creation which was passed on 5 October 2020 as well ...
An Italian village in one of the world’s few “blue zones” is offering villas for $1 to Americans who were sent into a tailspin after Donald Trump's decisive presidential election win.
The inauguration of Prabowo Subianto as the 8th president of Indonesia took place on Sunday, 20 October 2024, at the Parliamentary Complex in Jakarta. [1] [2] This inauguration marks the start of the five-year term of Prabowo Subianto as president and Gibran Rakabuming as vice president.