FRWP Open Day on 6 December 2020 featured interviews with the President and the Prime Minister of the new West Papua Transitional Government, with Australian federal Greens Senator Janet Rice, and with Dr Joe Toscano (West Papua Rent Collective). It…
28 October 2020 Dear Minister Payne Further to my letter twelve months ago (19 October 2019) I write to update you on the situation in West Papua, and in Indonesia, in the hope of advancing our long-standing request for the…
On 10 December 2017, the West Papua Womens Office in Docklands launched its exhibition World War II in West Papua, 1942-1945 at the Australian Catholic University Art Gallery in Brunswick St Fitzroy. Former ABC journalist Margaret Coffey compèred an impressive…
WEST PAPUA: Brief overview, 2020 This fully referenced photo-essay, of thirty-six (A4) pages in PDF downloadable form, provides an overview of the West Papuan people and their unique environment, their Dutch colonial history-including the devastating impact of World War II…
On 5 October 2020, the West Papua Womens Office shared stories about founding member Natalie Adadikam, who had died peacefully after a long illness on 28 September 2020. Natalie was a driving force in the office, and worked hard and…
ULMWP Media Statement, 25 September 2020 ULMWP begs UN to discipline Indonesia against waging more war against Papuans, as Jokowi lectures UNGA about his nation’s ‘territorial integrity’ On 19 September 2020, the Indonesian military shot Pastor Jeremia Zanambani as he…
Media Statement, 13 September 2020 West Papua honours UN leader at international summit An international online summit will be held on Sunday 13 September to commemorate the work of Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, 1953-1961—a global champion for the fair treatment…
Professor Amien Rais Address, September 2020 English translation of a measured but explosive address by Javanese Professor Amien Rais, an influential academic and Muslim scholar, central government politician, and one of the political elite that forced President Suharto’s resignation in…
United Liberation Movement for West Papua ~ its mission, activities, achievements was presented by Spokesperson Jacob Rumbiak to the International League of Peoples Struggle Webinar on 28 July 2020 [r-click slides for larger view; scroll down for PDF to download/print]…
West Papua Womens Office in Docklands and Democratic Republic of Congo Community (Victoria) are planting a tree in honour of Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN Secretary-General found dead on 18 September 1961 after a plane-crash near the border of the Democratic…
The West Papua Office in Docklands has adapted quickly to COVID-19 restrictions, and our first Open Day in 2020, on Sunday 19 April, was a ‘webinar’ (online forum) featuring well-informed perspectives on the life of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, and…
ULMWP MEDIA STATEMENT, 1 April 2020 What’s going on in West Papua behind COVID-19? On Tuesday 31 March 2020, a man in a shadowy photo apparently walked out of West Papua’s airport in Sentani, fell over, and died. He isn’t…
ULMWP Media Statement, 14 March 2020 Indonesia pressured to negotiate with United Liberation Movement for West Papua As Defense Minister (and former general) Prabowo Subianto escalates Indonesia’s war against West Papuans, the Jokowi government is under pressure to respond to…
West Papua 1942-2022: the legals, politics, and the only way forward by Jacob Rumbiak is a succinct but comprehensive image-and-text study guide of the West Papuans’ experience of World War II, and as a progressive UN Non-Self-Governing Territory during the…
Two important legal documents by ICJ lawyers: George Lambert (2000) West Papua: real-politik v international law; and Melinda Janki’s (2010) Papua’s right to self-determination under international law, which both analyse and dissect the New York Agreement (1962-1969). George Lambert was…
