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Kontras condemns police shooting of Freeport workers
Kontras, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence has condemned the shooting of Freeport workers who were seeking negotiations with the management of the company. Since the...
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Three hundred Freeport workers ordered home
Bintang Papua, 14 October 2011Freeport orders 300 workers to ‘go home’ Timika: Reports that workers at Freeport have intimidated and threatened other workers for refusing to take part in...
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DAP chairman calls for the withdrawal of police and army from around Freeport
JUBI, 13 October 2011In connection with the shooting dead of Petrus Ayamiseba who worked at the catering department for workers at Freeport, the Dewan Adat Papua has declared that it is essential to...
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Journalist covering events around Freeport is beaten and injured
JUBI, 13 October 2011Dozens of journalists demonstrated in Manokwari to protest against the beating of a colleague, Duma Tato Sanda, a journalist working for Cahaya Papua, who was beaten up by workers...
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DPRP members say police and army chiefs should be held responsible for...
Bintang Papua, 25 October 2011 [Abridged in translation by TAPOL] Jayapura: A member of the Provincial Legislative Assembly of Papua, the DPRP, had called for the Chief of Police in Papua and Commander...
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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS FROM THE FREEPORT DISPUTE
by Lococonut via our partners at EngageMedia.org A snippet of footage and chatters around the Freeport strike in West Papua. The Freeport workers’ union says it is a matter of simple “revenue...
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DPRP member criticises the absence of teachers and medics in Papua
JUBI 26 March 2012A member of the Papuan legislative assembly, the DPRP, said it was very regrettable that teachers and health personnel rarely go to the more isolated parts of West Papua. Kenius...
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Don’t blame OPM for mysterious shootings, says DPRP member
JUBI, 18 April, 2012 There have been a number of shootings in Papua in recent months but mystery surrounds the problem of who is responsible.Ruben Magay, the chairman of Commission A of DPRP, the...
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DPRP member warns: Continued detention of Tabuni could strengthen...
Bintang Papua, 8 June, 2012 Weynand Watory, a member of Commission A of the DPRP, said that the arrest of Buchtar Tabuni and his two colleagues would do nothing to help resolve the conflict in Papua....
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Report on the US ambassador’s meetings with various government agencies and...
(via Tapol) The following is a summary of two lengthy reports in Bintang Papua on 7 and 8 November about the visit earlier this month of the US ambassador Scot Marciel, to West Papua: ——- DPRP Meetings...
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