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View all search resultsThe Elementary and Secondary Education Ministry kicked off a school renovation program on Tuesday across 39 schools in two regions of Southwest Papua, in a move to strengthen equal access to education in the easternmost part of the country.
Driven by land and resource grabs masked as counterterrorism operations, the escalation of military operations in Poso and Papua are willfully exposing Indonesian citizens to a brutal campaign of violence and forced displacement.
Police said the clashes also caused extensive property damage, with 177 houses, 63 traditional honai homes, eight shophouses, a school building and a village office set on fire. The conflicting groups also torched 48 cars and 43 motorcycles.
Senior minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra insisted that the government had never ordered a ban on screenings of the Papua documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast), maintaining its commitment to freedom of expression while rejecting the film’s allegations of state-driven “modern colonialism”.
Produced by WatchDoc alongside several environmental and legal advocacy groups, Pesta Babi explores deforestation and land conversion in Papua linked to the government’s expanding food estate and energy transition programs, which have been designated National Strategic Projects (PSN) under President Prabowo Subianto’s administration.
As the government intensifies its food estate ambitions in Papua, a staggering 58-to-1 military-to-insurgent ratio reveals a development strategy that prioritizes industrial expansion over the basic human rights and ancestral lands of the indigenous population.
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