Rangga D. Fadillah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 03/29/2012 9:13 AM
Private oil and gas company PT Duta Firza will team up with Korea-based LG International to set up a petrochemical complex with a total investment of US$3 billion near the Tangguh gas field in West Papua. Read more…
Bintang Papua, 28 March 2012
While the Australian government is keen to hear about the present situation in West Papua and is hoping to get inputs from a number of sources, in believes in principle that Papua should continue to be a part of Indonesia. Read more…
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 03/26/2012 12:10 PM | Archipelago
An army officer died on Sunday in Skamto, Jayapura, after he was stabbed by an unidentified man.
Antara news agency reported that the incident had taken place at 5:20 p.m. local time when Pfc. M. Ikhsan, with the Yon 751 BS platoon, called out in front of his guard post. Suddenly, a car stopped and someone from the car stabbed him in the chest. Read more…
The Jakarta Post
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The raging conflict in Syria and Iran’s nuclear program dispute have
been the world’s headlines for some time. One side of both of these
two issues has been dominated by “Western powers” with the United
Nations being used as a battleground for major powers to either
reinforce or justify their actions. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
spoke with The Jakarta Post’s Novan Iman Santosa and Yohanna Ririhena
on these issues and what role Indonesia can play in resolving
international crises. Read more…
JUBI 21 March 2012
The chief of police in Jayapura has declared that the demonstration organised by the National Committee for West Papua (KNPB) on 20 March was in violation of the regulations in force. Read more…
The Jakarta Post, Friday, March 16, 2012
Linda Yulisman, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The government plans to build a petrochemical industrial estate in
West Papua next year to help meet rising demand for petroleum-based
products and reduce dependency on imports, officials say. Read more…
The Jakarta Globe
Friday, March 16, 2012
Erwida Maulia
New York-based Human Rights Watch has condemned the Indonesian
government for allowing the conviction of five Papuan independence
activists on Friday, saying the convictions went against
constitutional freedom of expression. Read more…
March 15, 2012
Canberra, Australia. Indonesian ministers said Thursday they were comfortable with a planned increase in US troops in northern Australia seen as an attempt to contain China and hoped to join in training exercises focused on disaster relief. Read more…
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Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Indonesia`s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said Indonesia and Australia are key to stability in the region, in view of their significant roles at various international forums. Read more…
The New York Times, March 13, 2012
By FRANK JACOBS
You probably don’t think much about the border between Indonesia and
Papua New Guinea. And when you do, you might not think much of it. It
looks so straightforward and simple: following the 141st meridian
east, it neatly splits the island of New Guinea [1] in two almost
equal halves. The western half is part of Indonesia, while the eastern
half forms the bulk of the independent state of Papua New Guinea,
which also consists of the Bismarck Archipelago [2] and several
smaller islands. Read more…
March 12, 2012
Timika. The Indonesian subsidiary of US mining giant McMoRan said on Monday it had resumed operations after a two-week suspension caused by fighting among workers. Read more…
On the morning of 8th February 2012, local people from kampung Tablasupa, near to the Papuan capital Jayapura, burned a drilling rig belonging to the mining company PT Tablasupa Nikel Mining. The action was connected to an ongoing conflict between local people and the company, which plans to mine nickel on 9629 hectares of land, and is currently carrying out exploration activities. Although the company has been given a permit by the local Jayapura Bupati’s office, the people of Tablasupa feel that their rights as the holders of customary rights over the land have not been respected. Read more…
Seeing their forest destroyed, Arso Villagers Burn Five Logging Camps
Annoyed by hearing the sound of chainsaws almost every day, and in
addition the reports of villagers who regularly enter the forest telling
of finding loggers’ camps there, around 20 people from Arso, both young
and old, agreed to check the forest for themselves. Read more…
Bintang Papua, 8 March 2012
Jayapura: In Papua, the Indonesin army, the TNI, always uses the welfare approach towards the Papuan people, including armed civilians who continue to create disturbances in Puncak Jaya and other places in Papua. Read more…
JUBI, 5 March 2012
Bearing in mind the continual terrorising of defence lawyers during the makar (treason) trial [now under way in Jayapura] and of human rights activists as well as journalists covering the trial, the central executive of GARDA-P , the Movement for People’s Democracy has called upon the security forces to put an end to all of their attempts to silence these people. Read more…
The Jakarta Post, Friday, March 9, 2012
PT Freeport Indonesia is denying some of the claims made in the eye-opening documentary Alkinemokiye (From Struggle Dawns a New Hope) about large strikes by company workers last year. Read more…
NEWARK, N.J. — Days before U.S. Rep. Donald Payne died of cancer, it wasn’t the phone calls of encouragement from presidents that cheered him. It was when a Washington hospital orderly recognized the New Jersey congressman as the only U.S. official to visit his village in the African nation of Eritrea. Read more…
(P.S. 10.03.2012)
Armed groups roaming the areas around Puncak Jaya, killed an Indonesian soldier, First Pvt. La Ode, then shot a bystander named Pemerina Morip, 40, who has chest injuries. Since January this year, two people have died in shootings in Puncak Jaya. A resident, named Kismavorit, 27 was gunned down by an unidentified man on Jan. 20. On Jan. 28, First Brig. Sukarno from the Papua police’s Mobile Brigade was also shot dead in another location in Puncak Jaya.
The dangerous armed group in Puncak Jaya is believed to be the military wing of Free West Papua Organization. (wpu)
An Indonesian soldier was shot by armed men who are highly likely part of Free West Papua Organization (OPM) in Mulia, Puncak Jaya District, Papua Province, on Thursday (08/03) morning. Read more…
Source: Bam’s Blog
NORMAN — New Guinea-inspired cuisine and beer will be offered at a tasting party from 6:30 to 8 tonight at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua. Read more…
Jakarta Globe, March 08, 2012
A soldier is in critical condition after being shot during a firefight in Mulia, Papua, Indonesian Military (TNI) officials said.
“I’ve just received a report that one of our soldiers, First Pvt. La Ode, has been shot and has been admitted to Mulia Hospital,” Erwin Syafitri, the commander of the Cendrawasih Military Command, which oversees military operations in Papua, said in Jayapura on Thursday. Read more…
Jakarta Globe, March 07, 2012
Indonesia will force foreign firms to sell down stakes in mines by the 10th year of production, with domestic ownership to be at least 51 percent, in a move likely to hurt existing miners and scare off potential investors.
The new rule is the latest government move to extract greater domestic profit from the vast mineral wealth in the world’s top exporter of thermal coal and tin. Read more…
Muhamad Al Azhari | March 06, 2012 , Jakarta Globe
Freeport Indonesia is in a race against time to build a massive new underground mining facility, ahead of the 2017 depletion of surface resources at its Papua mine site, its new chief executive said on Tuesday. Read more…
Nethy Dharma Somba, The Jakarta Post, Jayapura | Fri, 03/02/2012 3:58 PM
American mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia (PT FI) has donated Rp 58 billion (US$6.38 million) to the Timika-based Human Rights and Anti-Violence Foundation (Yahamak) to fund its programs. Read more…
