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View all search resultsSeven Papuan students and Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua spokesperson Surya Anta were arrested by the Jakarta Police on Friday and Saturday and are currently being detained at the National Police's Mobile Brigade detention center in Depok, West Java.
Tensions rose in Jayapura, the provincial capital of Papua, on Friday, as residents, many of whom are believed to be non-indigenous Papuans, took action against Papuan protesters who, the former claimed, had rioted during anti-Jakarta rallies in the city.
Newly declassified United States government files reveal that Washington may have “tolerated” and “abetted” plans by Indonesia’s military to violently thwart Timor Leste’s independence referendum 20 years ago.
Many will no doubt blame the United States or Australia if a Papua exit comes to pass. But seeing the racial abuse against Papuan students and the heightened reactions in Papua, we Indonesians, not just the government, should blame ourselves. We have treated the Papuans the same way we did the people of East Timor.
Jakarta and Dili are to finally start negotiations to delimit their shared maritime boundaries following the conclusion of land border talks, 20 years after Timor Leste's vote for independence from Indonesia.
The deaths of 16 government-linked employees at a remote jungle work camp in early December, marked a dramatic escalation from decades of mostly sporadic skirmishes between poorly armed and disorganised guerrillas and a powerful Indonesian military.
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