The Secret Behind West Papua

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Eps 1: The Secret Behind West Papua

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Indonesia's deliberate cover-up of events in West Papua continued as the Papua New Guinea government tried to ignore the more than 10,000 refugees camped inside its border.
Refugees from the area are exiled in Papua New Guinea camps along with people from every region of West Papua.
The name Irian Barat (West Irian) was used during the Indonesian takeover, and persisted after the renaming in the 1970s. the indigenous people refer to their country as West Papua and to themselves as West Papuans.

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While President Joko Widodo has focused on improving the situation in Papua, Watch notes that Papua's rights to freedom of expression and assembly continue to be denied. Indonesian authorities have compiled a secret dossier outlining a strategy to suppress the independence movement. The secret document, the original and translated version of which was leaked to Fairfax Media, is aimed at political leaders, journalists and even students from the University of Papua who live in the troubled province.
John Rumbiak is a West Papuan human rights investigator who has worked tirelessly to expose abuses by the Indonesian military in West Papua. It highlighted a number of violations of the right to freedom of expression and assembly, as well as the use of torture and arbitrary detention.
Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has accused the kidnapping of an essentially local grievance against Freeport McMoRan and recent protests of being used to undermine Indonesia's territorial integrity. However, the Indonesian Government maintains that Papua is an integral part of India and that Indonesia stands by its position regardless of the fraudulent proceedings and is supported by the international community, "says the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in West Papua.
As reprisals and attacks continue, hundreds of students from West Papua have been hiding in schools and living in fear for their lives. The armed liberation struggle in West Papua, with the support of the United Nations and international human rights organisations, has been going on for more than a decade.
West Papua is a part of the island of New Guinea, formerly known as Dutch New Papua, in the Pacific off the west coast of Australia.
After Indonesia's absurd law of free elections, enforced under extreme duress in 1969, West Papua was renamed Irian Jaya and declared an independent state. The Indonesian government banned the petition from Papua and West Papuan provinces, it was blocked online in both countries, and petition leaflets were smuggled from one end of Papua to the other, "Wenda told the Guardian in New York. Dutch colony in 1962, culminating in an agreement that the former Dutch colonies would become independent states or "Indonesian provinces."
Indonesian government for allegedly torturing and imprisoning independence activists in Papua for opposing independence from Indonesia, which had controlled Papua (now Papua and West Papua) since 1963.
Indonesian authorities have already detained Yeimo and he fears he will be arrested again, Wenda said. After 50 years, this has never happened and it is being organized in secret, "Wenda says," but we have to do it.
On one side of the border is independent Papua New Guinea and on the other is the Indonesian province of Papua or West Papua, which independence activists call West Papua. Yeimo is one of a small group of activists calling for West Papua's independence. The Indonesian provinces of Papua and West PNG should form an independent nation without Indonesia, "said a West Papuan independence activist.
An elderly Muyu man declared that if Megawati granted independence to West Papua, she would be rewarded with the power to rule the rest of Indonesia.
He said he was from West Papua, but only certain people could see him as the leader of his people, not as an independent state.
One of these people met him in Holland, where he asked permission to borrow an eagle for 30 years, and his application was granted. In 1969, the promised referendum on independence was held and Indonesia became independent from the Dutch, led by Sukarno, who reneged on his promise not to return the eagle to the people of West Papua. The Indonesians used the next seven years to gain control over every aspect of life in West Papua. He is believed to have been interned at Boven Digoel, but the promise of a series of biscuits for independence was never fulfilled.
The Indonesian military chose only 1,026 elected representatives who cast their votes under duress, and West Papua became a province of Indonesia. Yale Law School found that the Indonesian government committed genocide against West Papuans. After 50 years of Indonesian rule, there is no significant evidence of genocide. The Indonesian military also carried out a series of massacres of indigenous people in Papua and other parts of East Papua.
In addition to banning international media from West Papua, Indonesia carried out countermeasures - intelligence operations to neutralise the international independence movement, neutralise, monitor and harass activists based in Australia and elsewhere.
Foreign visitors to the province have been routinely monitored, and leaked military documents lament the activists "" success "in propagating the idea of West Papua as an independent state in the Western Pacific. Indonesia has worked hard to ensure that exiled Papuan officials are excluded from regional Pacific organizations. The British ambassador in Jakarta even called on him to publicly distance himself from independence efforts. Britain's historic alliance with the Indonesian state stems primarily from its support for the independence movement and its role as a guarantor of international peace and security.