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The Free Papua Movement or Free Papua Organization (Indonesian: Organisasi Papua Merdeka, OPM) is a name given to a separatist movement that aims to separate West Papua from Indonesia and establish an independent state in the region.
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.
July 2009: OPM members hoisted the flag of West Papua in the village of Jugum. Afterwards more than thirty houses were burned by the Indonesian army. [29] 16 December 2009: Free Papua Movement (OPM) leader Kelly Kwalik was shot by Indonesian police during a raid in Timika and died in Timika Hospital. [30]
In 2019, the government budgeted special autonomy funds for Papua Province amounting to IDR 5.85 trillion and West Papua Province IDR 2.51 trillion [2] To accelerate development, the government also disbursed an Additional Infrastructure Fund (DTI) of Rp. 2.82 trillion for Papua and Rp. 1.44 trillion for West Papua in 2019. So that the total ...
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Given the island is alternatively named Papua, the region is also called West Papua (Indonesian: Papua Barat). [6] It is one of the seven geographical units of Indonesia in ISO 3166-2:ID . Lying to the west of Papua New Guinea and geographically a part of the Australian continent , the territory is almost entirely in the Southern Hemisphere and ...
The districts of Papua (as now reduced by the reorganisation of July 2022, which separated twenty regencies previously part of Papua Province into three new provinces of Central Papua, Highland Papua and South Papua) and their respective regencies are as follows (as of December 2019).
The Coalition aims to raise the issue of West Papua in Oceania's regional organisations. It is seeking observer status for West Papua at the Melanesian Spearhead Group, [40] which it was granted in 2015, [41] and has announced it would request the Papua New Guinean government to bring up the question of West Papua at the Pacific Islands Forum. [42]