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Breaking the Media Blackout - West Papua, December 1, 2011
Posted: Jan 05, 2012 by westpapumedia with 0 comments
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Fifty years ago on December 1, 1961, West Papuans flew their flag for the first time in preparation for their independence from the Dutch. In 2011, despite ongoing repression, the Morning Star flag was once again flown across the country. The non-violent demonstrations and gatherings, as well as the military crackdown against them, were reported to the world via a network of citizen media journalists. Read more…
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Solidarity Movement for Aceh Punks
Posted: Dec 20, 2011 by emnews with 0 comments
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On Human Rights Day, December 10 2011, 64 music lovers came from as far as Jakarta and West Java to a charity concert in Banda Aceh's Taman Budaya Park. They were detained for being "punks" and "disturbing the peace". This video highlights a solidarity march held for them. Read more…
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Reclaim APUSE: Gorby in Papuan Voices on Human Rights Day
Posted: Dec 14, 2011 by lococonut with 0 comments
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In 2009, Indonesian band Netral used the tunes of Papuan song 'Apuse' for their hit song 'Garuda di Dadaku'. The song was used to motivate the Indonesian national soccer team and its supporters. Many Papuans though were not to happy with the idea. On December 10, 2011, Papuan Voices and Gorby Comen Rasta took back the song and return it to its rightful owner, the people of Papua. Read more…
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Jakarta Ketuk Pintu! (Knock, Knock, Jakarta!)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 by ucu with 1 comments
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The quest to turn Jakarta into a megapolitan has not turned Jakarta into the city of dreams. Its populations face a variety of public service problems on daily basis. Ironically, often the problems are intensified due to lack of transparency and the politicians' vested interests. So what happens when people realise the need for transparency? Read more…
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Watch Papuan Voices on Human Rights Day!
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 by emnews with 1 comments
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Join us for the public screening of the latest work by our Papuan Voices videomakers. Papuan Voices project is a combination of empowerment and production. We collaborate with Papuan video activists to tell their own stories to the world. Tell us if you want to organise your own Papuan Voices screening! Read more…
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Harapan Anak Cendrawasih (The Hope of the Cendrawasih Children)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 by papuanvoicesjayapura with 0 comments
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Primary school children in Arso on the Indonesia-PNG border are keen to study – but teachers rarely come to the local school. The one teacher who does come is only on a short-term contract and gets paid once every six months. When school is out, the kids end up doing hard labour for the local palm plantation to earn money and kill time. Read more…
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Awin Meke (My Mother)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 by papuanvoicesjayapura with 0 comments
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Indigenous Papuan women traders struggle to sell their goods in modern Jayapura. In their first fight, the women won themselves a space to set up shop. However, local city administrators backed out of their promise to support them by opening a competing market, run by non-Papuans, which sells the same goods. Read more…
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Declaration of the Third Papuan People's Congress
Posted: Nov 30, 2011 by westpapumedia with 0 comments
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The full declaration of the Third Papuan People's Congress, read by Fokurus Yaboisembut on the 19th of October 2011, declaring the Independent Nation of West Papua. With English subtitles by traverser11. Read more…
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Mama Yosepha on Papuan Women's Struggle
Posted: Nov 30, 2011 by numbaymedia with 0 comments
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Yosepha Alomang, or more popularly called Mama Yosepha, spoke of her past ordeals dealing with the Indonesian military and of her husband, the deceased former freedom fighter leader Kelly Kwalik. Mama Yosepha She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for her efforts on organizing her community to resist Freeport-McMoRan's mining practices. Read more…
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Indonesia Pressured Us: PEPERA 1969 Testimony
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 by papuanvoicesmerauke with 0 comments
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Witnesses talk about what really happened during West Papua's (supposed) Act of Free Choice (or in Indonesian Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat, PEPERA), in July 1969. The testimonies reject the Indonesian government's claim that the people of Papua willingly voted to be integrated with Indonesia. They say people were intimidated, tricked and even killed during the process. Mama Rosa Tambaib was the woman who read out the PEPERA statement of integration, and Elias Yos Moiwend helped the Indonesian Armed Forces to socialise PEPERA to villagers. Read more…
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Upper Bengoh Under Water
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 by jleongmy with 3 comments
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Upper Bengoh Under Water highlights the plight of four villages that will soon be submerged under water by the Bengoh Dam in Sarawak, Malaysia. These villagers will have to leave their homes, farmland and orchards - and yet, during the recent State Elections, they did not voice their objections at the ballot box against the government's resettlement plans. We take Bengoh as a case study to find out why rural Sarawak in general did not vote against the ruling coalition. Read more…
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Occupy Sydney Protest
Posted: Nov 15, 2011 by JamieMUA with 0 comments
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Activists, union members and community groups marched from Sydney's Town Hall to Martin Place to protest against corporate greed, world poverty and economic slavery. Read more…
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30 Minutes After the Congress
Posted: Nov 12, 2011 by numbaymedia with 0 comments
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New footage of the brutal police and military attack on the Third Papuan People's Congress in Jayapura on October 19, 2011. This mobile phone footage shows security forces rounding up Congress participants, the gunfire, and the large number of armed plain-clothes officers. The footage also shows the brutal assault on President-elect, Forkorus Yaboisembut, as he was dragged on to a sports field along with other participants. The video was shot by an unnamed video activist. Read more…
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Sights and Sounds from the Freeport Dispute
Posted: Nov 04, 2011 by lococonut with 1 comments
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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 transparency", the international trade union says the dispute "has nothing to do with" West Papua politics, and a worker recorded in his video testimony that the walk-out was something "important" and worth keeping. Read more…
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Striking Freeport Workers Attract Global Support
Posted: Nov 02, 2011 by emnews with 0 comments
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Dick Blin, Information and Campaigns Officer of the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM), talks about the Freeport strike in West Papua, ICEM's role and where the negotiation between the workers and the company is progressing. Read more…
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"Release Indonesian minors from Australian jails!"
Posted: Oct 26, 2011 by yerry with 0 comments
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Lawyers from the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) and activists rallied outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on 24 October 2011, calling for the release of more than 50 Indonesian juveniles in Australian adult prisons. The children were arrested for crewing people smuggling vessels. EngageMedia talked to Feby Yonesta of YLBHI about the fate of the children. Read more…
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Eyewitness View of Attack on the Papuan People's Congress
Posted: Oct 22, 2011 by numbaymedia with 0 comments
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This is raw footage of Wednesday's attack by the Indonesian military and police on the Third Papuan People's Congress in Jayapura. The footage shows people dancing, soldiers closing in, and gun shots. The video was shot by several observers. The last sequence was shot while the camera person was hiding from gunfire. Police have now confirmed that five people were killed in the attack - human rights groups say it was more. Read more…
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Everyone Leads the Movement: Fay's Occupy Jakarta Speech
Posted: Oct 21, 2011 by occupyjakarta with 2 comments
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The global Occupy movement spread to Indonesia as dozens of people participated in a peaceful Occupy Jakarta protest in front of the Jakarta Stock Exchange complex. Writer and activist Hilmar 'Fay' Farid pumped up the crowd with his speech. Read more…
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Third Papuan People's Congress Under Attack
Posted: Oct 20, 2011 by numbaymedia with 0 comments
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TNI soldiers and police officers closed in to the Papuan People's Congress on October 19, 2011 in Jayapura. At 3.30pm Jayapura time, they fired warning shots and arrested hundreds of the attendees after the congress declared independence from Indonesia. The video is a compilation of cellphone shot footages received by the West Papua Media Alert. Read more…
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I Am Not Moving: Occupy Wall Street Movie
Posted: Oct 17, 2011 by emnews with 0 comments
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Critical comments by President Obama and Secretary Clinton on what was happening in the world, particularly in the Middle East. Ironically, what they claim the governments did in those countries are the exact same things they are doing to the Wall Street protestors. Read more…
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