Violent Tactics Backfire In Papua
If the Indonesian police and military thought shooting live ammunition into a mass gathering of…More
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West Papua Faces Security Crackdown
Forty-eight years after Indonesia took over administration of West Papua from the United Nations Temporary…More
Enough, Say West Papuan Workers To Freeport
Perched on the western rim of the Melanesian Pacific, adjacent to independent Papua New Guinea,…More
No Cheersquad For Bashir In Indo
The 3000 police and six balaclava-clad snipers at the South Jakarta District Courtroom last Thursday…More
Double Standards On Death Row
Australian drug-smuggler Andrew Chan has lost his final appeal against a death sentence for his…More
No Beef From Indonesia On Cattle Sanctions
It’s big news in Australia but Indonesian officials have barely flinched at the suggestion of…More
Indonesia Bans Deforestation – Sort Of
You know that something’s not quite right when one of the world’s largest pulp and…More
Back-Room Lobbying Slows Climate Deal
When Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced last May that his country would halt deforestation…More
What We Really Knew About East Timor
In April 2007 I applied to the National Archives of Australia for access to records…More
Information That's Not So Free
"WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism," wrote WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in…More