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On the other hand, Indonesia regarded West New Guinea as an intrinsic part of the country on the basis that Indonesia was the successor state to the Dutch East Indies. Papuans participated in the momentous 1928 Youth Pledge , which is the first proclamation of an "Indonesian identity" which symbolically was attended by numerous ethnic youth ...
Timika, West Papua 4 Killings of alleged OPM members by the Indonesian Army, who were attempting to buy weapons from the soldiers; they were shot, dismembered and their bodies stuffed in sacks and thrown in the Pigapu River, during the Papua conflict. [49] 2022 Southeast Maluku riot 12 November 2022 Kai Besar, Maluku 2
Papua province, the location of the massacre, has seen low-level insurgency since its incorporation into Indonesia. While the rest of the former Dutch East Indies were recognised in 1949 as part of the new country of Indonesia, the Dutch held onto Western New Guinea until handing it to Indonesian administration in 1963. [3]
KNPB = National Committee for West Papua (Indonesian: Komite Nasional Papua Barat) OPM = Free Papua Movement (Indonesian: Organisasi Papua Merdeka) TPNPB = West Papua National Liberation Army (Indonesian: Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Papua Barat) All dates are in Eastern Indonesia Time (WIT; UTC+09:00) unless otherwise noted.
In almost all estimates, under International law the death toll amounts to genocide of the people of West Papua by Indonesia. A Sydney University academic has estimated more than 100,000 Papuans , one sixteenth of the population, have died as a result of government-sponsored violence against West Papuans, [ 28 ] while others had previously ...
West Papua (Indonesian: Papua Barat), formerly Irian Jaya Barat (West Irian), is an Indonesian province located in Indonesia Papua.It covers most of the two western peninsulas of the island of New Guinea: the eastern half of the Bird's Head Peninsula (or Doberai Peninsula) and the whole of the Bomberai Peninsula, along with nearby smaller islands.
Indonesian authorities suspected the Free Papua Movement's militant wing, the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), of responsibility, specifically of Army Tabuni and Egianus Kogoya group. [1] [4] [5] One of the perpetrators of the attack is Yotam Bugiangge, an Indonesian Army (TNI-AD) deserter with the former rank of Private Second ...
The Biak massacre was the killing of West Papuan pro-independence demonstrators on the island of Biak, Papua Province, Indonesia, in 1998.. On the morning of 2 July 1998, unarmed villagers, including Nobel Peace prize nominee and political prisoner Filep Karma raised the West Papuan Morning Star flag at a water tower.