- Human Rights Update West Papua: 2nd Quarter 2020
- Press Release from the Papuan Council of Churches - Racism and Injustice in West Papua
- Merdeka Secretariat's Solidarity Month for West Papua
- NTB Regional Police allegedly forced a student to make false video statement about West Papua
- #MakeWestPapuaSafe aims to stop foreign government support for Indonesian police
- Sign ETAN's Petition: Free West Papua Political Prisoners
- Update on trials and detentions after anti-racism riots in West Papua
- Press Release - #PapuanLivesMatter: West Papua Network and United Evangelical Mission urge the Indonesian government to end racism against indigenous Papuans
- #MakeWestPapuaSafe Campaign organizes webinar about Balikpapan 7 with Sarah Thompson
- Pusaka Press Release: Urging the State and Corporations to Protect and Respect Environmental Human Rights Defenders in Papua
- Update on trial against 23 defendants in Fakfak arrested during 1st December Commemorations and accused of treason and criminal conspiracy
- TAPOL regrets Court sentencing of ‘Balikpapan Seven’ political prisoners
Press Release from the Papuan Council of Churches - Racism and Injustice in West Papua
NTB Regional Police allegedly forced a student to make false video statement about West Papua
#MakeWestPapuaSafe aims to stop foreign government support for Indonesian policeÂÂÂÂÂÂ
Sign ETAN's Petition: Free West Papua Political Prisoners
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) is calling for the immediate release of political prisoners in Indonesia. Sign the petition HERE. Recently, Indonesian prosecutors demanded sentences of five to 17 years for seven high-profile West Papuan political prisoners detained in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan (Borneo). These activists were arrested during a wave of protest triggered by recorded incidents of racist police violence last year. Tens of thousands joined an uprising against racism and for self-determination for West Papua. SIGN HERE
Update on trials and detentions after anti-racism riots in West Papua
This article provides an overview of the trials related to Papua-wide anti-racism protests between late August and late September 2019 as well as the subsequent wave of criminalisation against human rights defenders and political activists. The seven Papuan activists tried in Kalimantan were sentenced to ten and eleven months imprisonment. International human rights observers, as well as Papuan civil society members, raised serious concerns regarding the trial after the public prosecutor had sought sentences of up to 17 years imprisonment for the defendants. Meanwhile, the majority of trials concerning the anti-racism protests have been closed and the defendants were released. Several court cases against protesters who were during unrests in the towns of Oksibil, Wamena, Sorong and Waena continue.
Read morePress Release - #PapuanLivesMatter: West Papua Network and United Evangelical Mission urge the Indonesian government to end racism against indigenous Papuans
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#MakeWestPapuaSafe Campaign organizes webinar about Balikpapan 7 with Sarah Thompson
On 15 June 2020, the case of the seven activists on trial for treason was discussed in a webinar organised by #makewestpapuasafe. Sarah Thompson talked about the #Black Lives Matter and the importance to understand the campaign as a global movement. She explained that the situations of racism against Afro-Americans in the United States and Papuans in Indonesia are only two pieces of a larger puzzle to succeed in the global struggle for freedom and equality for black people. “Here [in the US], we are struggling for our lives, saying no to police brutality, saying no to voters’ oppression saying no to unjust incarceration. Yet, we know that none of us are free in the US until all of us are free, and that means until West Papua is free, we will continue to march, we will continue to speak out, we will continue to bring our humanity to the system and say there is no longer ‘us’ vs ‘them’, it’s all of us or none. And we choose all of us.”
The Pusaka Bentala Rakyat Foundation has documented the situation in Papua from April 2020 to the present, June 2020, and has uncovered cases of violence, arrests, destruction of property, internal displacement, intimidation and death threats experienced by indigenous peoples and Environmental Human Rights Defenders, namely: the Moskona indigenous people in the Regency of Teluk Bintuni (April 2020), Aifat indigenous people in Maybrat Regency (April May 2020), Environmental Human Rights Defenders in Kampung Ikana, Kais Darat, South Sorong Regency (June 2020), and in Kali Kao, Jair District, Boven Digoel Regency (June 2020), Papua Province. Some cases involve recurring violence against Environmental Human Rights Defenders.
Update on trial against 23 defendants in Fakfak arrested during 1st December Commemorations and accused of treason and criminal conspiracy
TAPOL regrets the sentencing of seven West Papuan political prisoners today in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan province. The Seven were arrested in early September 2019 and accused of being the masterminds behind the ‘West Papua Uprising’, mass anti-racism protests in August and September last year. Prosecutors demanded that harsh prison sentences should be handed to the Seven, which has caused a rise in tensions in recent weeks in West Papua. However, judges took a different view and displayed more leniency
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