Australian
West Papua Association (AWPA) Focus on West Papua, a community forum
Sydney Uni-24 April. Every day more and more people are finding out
about West Papua. Freedom is coming.
Thank you Australia Association of Pacific Studies, Sydney University, for the opportunity to discuss Activism: Independence for West Papua and to hear ongoing support of Vanuatu government through honourable MP Ralph Regenvanu. #Merdeka
Ronny Kareni, (West Papua community, Victoria)
Melkias Okoka (3CR Community Radio, Victoria, West Papua community, Victoria) Camellia Webb-Gannon (West Papua Project, University of Sydney)
Thank you Australia Association of Pacific Studies, Sydney University, for the opportunity to discuss Activism: Independence for West Papua and to hear ongoing support of Vanuatu government through honourable MP Ralph Regenvanu. #Merdeka
Ronny Kareni, (West Papua community, Victoria)
Melkias Okoka (3CR Community Radio, Victoria, West Papua community, Victoria) Camellia Webb-Gannon (West Papua Project, University of Sydney)
West Papua, located
on the western half of the island of New Guinea, was wrested from Dutch
administration by the Indonesian state and military in 1962. The
predominantly Melanesian and Christian West Papuans, who had been
prepared by the Dutch for independent nation-statehood, have
vociferously opposed Indonesian occupation ever since.
During the Cold War, Indonesia was backed by the USA, Australia and the United Nations in strengthening its hold on West Papua through an illegitimate referendum - the so-called Act of Free Choice - in which less than one percent of West Papua's population was coerced by threats of violence to vote for integration with Indonesia. Since 1962, successive Indonesian regimes have been carrying out crimes against humanity in their efforts to suppress West Papuan independence aspirations - current estimates of West Papuans killed during the occupation range between 100,000 and 500,000. Many West Papuan cultures and lands are threatened by extensive mining, oil palm planting, migration from other parts of Indonesia, and deforestation. Indigenous West Papuans are a minority in their own land. The West Papua Project was founded in 2000 by a group of academics at the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies deeply concerned at the lack of academic or political attention given to the West Papuan conflict. The goal of the West Papua Project is to promote peaceful dialogue between West Papuans and Indonesians as well as conflict transformation to bring about peace with justice in the region.
http://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/focus-on-west-papua-community-forum.html
During the Cold War, Indonesia was backed by the USA, Australia and the United Nations in strengthening its hold on West Papua through an illegitimate referendum - the so-called Act of Free Choice - in which less than one percent of West Papua's population was coerced by threats of violence to vote for integration with Indonesia. Since 1962, successive Indonesian regimes have been carrying out crimes against humanity in their efforts to suppress West Papuan independence aspirations - current estimates of West Papuans killed during the occupation range between 100,000 and 500,000. Many West Papuan cultures and lands are threatened by extensive mining, oil palm planting, migration from other parts of Indonesia, and deforestation. Indigenous West Papuans are a minority in their own land. The West Papua Project was founded in 2000 by a group of academics at the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies deeply concerned at the lack of academic or political attention given to the West Papuan conflict. The goal of the West Papua Project is to promote peaceful dialogue between West Papuans and Indonesians as well as conflict transformation to bring about peace with justice in the region.
http://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/focus-on-west-papua-community-forum.html
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