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News Indonesia » West Papua » Religion: Indonesia: Renewed Fighting Threatens West Papua Civilians

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/29/indonesia-renewed-fighting-threatens-west-papua-civilians

Published on: Wednesday 28 May 2025

(New York) – An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan separatist armed groups in West Papua has seriously threatened the security of the largely Indigenous population, ...

News Indonesia » West Papua » Religion: Indonesian Imperialism Is Alive – And Brutal – in West Papua

News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2024/04/indonesian-imperialism-is-alive-and-brutal-in-west-papua/

Published on: Thursday 25 April 2024

Supporters of the independence of the West Papua shout slogans during a rally commemorating the 59th anniversary of the failed efforts by Papuan tribal chiefs to declare independence from Dutch ...

News Indonesia » West Papua » Religion: Indonesia’s New Plans for Papua Can’t Hide Its Decades of Failures

News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2022/06/indonesias-new-plans-for-papua-cant-hide-its-decades-of-failures/

Published on: Monday 20 June 2022

Papuan students, with their body and face painted with the colors of the banned separatist ‘Morning Star’ flag, shout slogans during a rally in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 ...

News Indonesia » West Papua » Religion: Fighting threatens indigenous civilians in Indonesia’s West Papua: report

News channel or source: https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/indonesia-fighting-threatening-indigenous-civilians-report/

Published on: Saturday 31 May 2025

Escalating violence in Indonesia’s West Papua region is threatening the security of the largely Indigenous population amid intensified clashes between Indonesian security forces and separatist rebels, ...

News Indonesia » West Papua » Religion: Indonesia’s new government pushes transmigration plan, stirring protests in Papua

News channel or source: https://globalvoices.org/2024/11/27/indonesias-new-government-pushes-transmigration-plan-stirring-protests-in-papua/

Published on: Tuesday 26 November 2024

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, who assumed office on October 20, 2024, has announced the revival of the transmigration program, which encourages citizens to populate the country’s eastern ...

News Indonesia » West Papua » Religion: Does Indonesia have a healthy free press? Not according to West Papua

News channel or source: https://globalvoices.org/2022/05/09/does-indonesia-have-a-healthy-free-press-not-according-to-west-papua/

Published on: Sunday 08 May 2022

For nearly 60 years, West Papua, a region in the easternmost stretches of the Indonesian arhipelago, has been engaged in one of the longest-running independence struggles of any region in the world ...