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Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Indonesia: Police Head must investigate excessive use of force by Nabire police
The Indonesian authorities should discipline and bring to justice those involved if the force used is found to have been excessive and to have contravened the principles of necessity and proportionality. They should also put in place measures and training to ensure that future policing operations comply with international standards.

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Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/08/05/papua-situation-calls-‘flexibility’-exminister.html
Flexible policy implementation in the field is required to handle tension in Papua, a natural resources-rich province plagued by decades of separatist movement, a former minister says.

Former defense minister Juwono Sudarsono said that a cross-cultural approach should be taken into account in dealing with security problems in the easternmost province.
50 Members Of U.S. Congress Call Upon Obama Administration To Make West Papua One Of Its Highest Priorities
The Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, Rep. Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, and Chairman Donald M. Payne of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health have spearheaded an effort in Congress calling upon President Obama to "make West Papua one of the highest priorities of the Administration."
Pacific Islands Forum And West Papua
The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has sent the letter below to Prime Minister John Key on the eve of his departure for the Pacific Island Forum in Vanuatu. IHRC has also written to all Heads of Government urging them to engage with the crisis in West Papua by playing the role of regional peace broker.
Police embedded to help secure Freeport employees | The Jakarta Post
The authorities have increased security measures at mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia by slipping a police officer into each of the buses transporting company employees between work and home.

The measures, which are supported by 1,700 army and police personnel, have been adopted in
the wake of repeated shooting incidents along the road from Timika to Tembagapura.
ICG: Govt must recognize Papua beyond money terms | The Jakarta Post
Ahead of an audit of Papua’s special autonomy regional development fund, an NGO has urged the government to recognize that the root of problems causing resentment among Papuans is in fact a political, not an economic issue, an NGO says.

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Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Papuas special autonomy to be evaluated comprehensively
But before making the evaluation, the government would determine its parameters, he said here on Saturday.
"In 2011 we will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the implementation of Papua`s special autonomy which was granted nine years ago. The parameters of the evaluation are now being prepared," he said at a discussion on the implementation of special autonomy in Indonesia.

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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Papuan Struggle Enters New Phase
Protest in Papua is nothing new. Since Suharto was overthrown more than twelve years ago, every week there are demonstrations in Jayapura and in other cities of Indonesia’s restive Pacific periphery. There is no freedom of expression in West Papua. Students go onto the street and the police either or arrest or beat them. Often they do both, filling the jails with political prisoners whose only crime is nonviolent protest. But this time things seem different. Students are not the only ones demonstrating. They are joined by church pastors and NGO workers normally reluctant to get involved in mass action. Papuans talk about a new feeling in the movement. Even the various competing civil resistance groups – the Papuan Presidium Council (PDP), West Papua National Authority (WPNA), and the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation

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Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Civil.Ge | Sokhumi Welcomes ICJ Kosovo Ruling
Officials in Sokhumi claim the ruling will add weight to the Abkhaz arguments.
waz.euobserver.com / EU ready to mediate in dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton personally picked up the phone to deliver the message to Serbian president Boris Tadic and Kosovan prime minister Hashim Thaci. The EU is willing to facilitate the talks, she told them.
Bosnia's Serbs may seek to take lead from Kosovo
SUPPORTERS AND opponents of Kosovo’s independence have dug in their heels after the International Court of Justice ruled that its status was legal, while the leader of Bosnia’s Serbs suggested the verdict could encourage a bid for sovereignty by his region.

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Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Gempa 72 SR Terjadi di PNG
Jayapura (ANTARA News) - Gempa berkekuatan 7,2 skala Richter (SR) terjadi, Minggu malam, pukul 20.04 WIB, berpusat pada 503 kilometer Timur Laut Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG).

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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Correspondent's diary: Cursed by plenty
Paying a covert visit to Papua's fighters in the forest

Online Petitions on West Papua

noreply@blogger.com (papuapost) — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:01:32 PST

Resolve the West Papuan Crisis - Online Petition We, the undersigned, call on the Australian Government to support West Papua in its fight Independence and oppose the genocide of the...

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BBC Articles on West Papua

noreply@blogger.com (papuapost) — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:54:14 PST

Guernsey - Features - Spotlight on West Papua Spotlight on West Papua Ex-political prisoner Benny Wanda and Richard Samuelson from the Free West Papua Organisation were in Guernsey during...

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Reuters Articles on West Papua

noreply@blogger.com (papuapost) — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:49:22 PST

Quake injures 6 people in Indonesia's West Papua ... the strong quake, shallow at only 35 km (21.7 miles) deep, at an epicentre at 8 km (5 miles) north of the coastal town of Manokwari in West...

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Behind Irian Jaya's name change

noreply@blogger.com (papuapost) — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:36:28 PST

By regional analyst Nicholas Nugent The Indonesian province of Irian Jaya has been given a set of unprecedented autonomy measures, which officially came into effect on 1 January 2002. Under the...

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Documents

noreply@blogger.com (papuapost) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:20:16 PST

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What sort of society do West Papuans wish to have after an Indonesian withdrawal?

noreply@blogger.com (papuapost) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:24:16 PST

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Introduction to Tribal Democracy Web Blog

noreply@blogger.com (papuapost) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:31:21 PST

This is the first page of Tribal Democracy Web blog being prepared by Koteka Tribal Assembly in West Papua. The purpose of this blog is to gather inputs from around the world on the ideas being...

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