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Richard Chauvel, Ikrar Nusa Bhakti, The Papua conflict: Jakarta's perceptions and policies, 2004, ISBN 1-932728-08-2, ISBN 978-1-932728-08-8; J. Budi Hernawan, Papua land of peace: addressing conflict building peace in West Papua, 2005; King, Blair (2006). Peace in Papua: widening a window of opportunity. Council on Foreign Relations.
Workers from Istaka Karya, an Indonesian construction company were constructing a bridge over Yigi river (Indonesian: Kali Yigi) in Yigi district, Nduga Regency.They took work leave at 1 December, as the day has usually been considered unsafe to work, due to activities of Papuan separatists celebrating the declaration of Papuan independence of Free Papua Movement on that day.
Forgotten Bird of Paradise is a 2009 documentary film directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle for independence being fought in the Indonesian region of West Papua. [1] The film was shot undercover, and includes interviews with human rights victims and political prisoners , as well as footage of separatist guerrillas at ...
The Indonesian army issued a rare apology on Monday and said 13 soldiers had been arrested after a video emerged showing a man being tortured by troops in the country's Papua region, where armed ...
The Road to Home is a 2015 feature-length documentary [1] about Benny Wenda, the West Papuan independence leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. [2] Since his escape from an Indonesian prison in 2002, [3] where he was held in isolation and tortured as a political prisoner, [4] Benny has been an unceasing crusader on the international scene, campaigning to bring about an end to the suffering of ...
[1] On 8 September 2021, members of the TPNPB burnt machinery used for the construction of the Trans-Papua Highway . [ 2 ] Five days later, riots broke out in Kiwirok when members of the TPNPB attacked public buildings, including a school and a medical centre, [ 3 ] injuring nine people, one of whom later died. [ 4 ]
1 March 2010: The Australian West Papua Association in Sydney said that the situation in West Papua was deteriorating. Since the previous July there had been fourteen incidents of shootings around the Grasberg mine, Freeport's copper and gold mine. The attacks had killed at least three and injured thirteen. [32]
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.