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September 22, 2020
By Yanuarius Weya in Jayapura A pastor has been shot dead at the weekend allegedly by the Indonesian military, sparking protests by church groups and a call for an investigation. The pastor, Rev Yeremia Zanambani, was killed on Saturday in the Hitadipa district of Intan Jaya regency, Papua. He was the former chairperson of the ... <a title="Military accused of shooting dead a Papuan pastor – call for inquiry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/military-accused-of-shooting-dead-a-papuan-pastor-call-for-inquiry/" aria-label="Read more about Military accused of shooting dead a Papuan pastor – call for inquiry">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2020
By IndoLeft News/CNN in Jakarta The symbolic handover of money to Indonesia’s Finance Ministry Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) to repay scholarship funds received by human rights lawyer and activist Veronica Koman by the Papuan People’s Solidarity Team was not able to go ahead because the LPDP office was closed yesterday. Initially, several Papua People’s ... <a title="Papua Solidarity returns rights lawyer Veronica Koman’s scholarship grant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/17/papua-solidarity-returns-rights-lawyer-veronica-komans-scholarship-grant/" aria-label="Read more about Papua Solidarity returns rights lawyer Veronica Koman’s scholarship grant">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Human rights activist and lawyer Veronica Koman says the Indonesian government has asked her to return scholarship money amounting to 773 million rupiah (about US$70,000) which she received to undergo her master’s degree in Australia in 2016, reports CNN Indonesia. According to Vero – as she is known – this financial ... <a title="Jakarta asks Papuan rights lawyer Koman to return scholarship money" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/jakarta-asks-papuan-rights-lawyer-koman-to-return-scholarship-money/" aria-label="Read more about Jakarta asks Papuan rights lawyer Koman to return scholarship money">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s instruction for the military and the police to hunt down armed pro-independence rebels accused of being responsible for the 2018 Nduga massacre in Papua has led to a security crisis that has affected civilians in the region, claims the Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua). The ... <a title="President’s order blamed for Nduga rights violations in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/presidents-order-blamed-for-nduga-rights-violations-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about President’s order blamed for Nduga rights violations in Papua">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
COMMENT: By Benny Wenda, chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua For over 50 years, Indonesia has been promising West Papua “autonomy”. Each time, underneath autonomy lies only bullets and killings. As the 2001 Special Autonomy law expires this year, the United Liberation Movement (ULMWP) and all the people of West Papua are ... <a title="Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/benny-wenda-a-referendum-not-autonomy-only-west-papua-solution/" aria-label="Read more about Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Pacific Media Watch A senior Indonesian government official and a New Zealand journalism professor have clashed over differing perspectives on access for journalists and media to the West Papua region. Speaking on a webinar organised by the Jubi newspaper in Jayapura, Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ director of the European affairs Sade Bimantara said Papua was ... <a title="Webinar panel on Papua sharply divided over media ‘black hole’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/webinar-panel-on-papua-sharply-divided-over-media-black-hole/" aria-label="Read more about Webinar panel on Papua sharply divided over media ‘black hole’">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A Papuan church leader and advocate for social justice has penned an open letter to the Indonesian government calling for justice and an end to racism to enable a genuine self-determination process for the Melanesian region. “The problem of Papua has become increasingly complex and severe because the root of the ... <a title="Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/open-letter-to-jakarta-papuan-self-determination-isnt-special-autonomy-v2/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta A court in East Kalimantan found seven Papuans guilty of treason in separate trials today for their involvement in antiracism protests in Jayapura, Papua, in 2019, despite calls from human rights defenders for authorities to drop all charges against them. The Balikpapan District Court sentenced Buchtar Tabuni, an executive of pro-Papuan ... <a title="Seven Papuan protesters jailed for treason amid drop charges call" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/seven-papuan-protesters-jailed-for-treason-amid-drop-charges-call/" aria-label="Read more about Seven Papuan protesters jailed for treason amid drop charges call">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2020
By Evi Mariani in Jakarta The giant wave of the United States’ #BlackLivesMatter campaign has now swept across Indonesia. A number of groups have begun to discuss racism in the country and have touched upon a rarely discussed topic – racism against Papuans. For a long time, racism against Indonesians of Chinese descent, also called ... <a title="Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/14/call-for-chinese-indonesians-to-support-papuanlivesmatter/" aria-label="Read more about Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Indonesian police in West Papua say four prisoners isolated for suspected covid-19 infection have escaped from Bhayangkara Police Hospital and are still at large. A number of prisoners, including Papuan independence activists, had recently been transferred to the hospital in Papua’s capital Jayapura. The escaped prisoners broke down the bars in their hospital room windows ... <a title="Police hunt four covid-suspect Papuan prisoners after escape from hospital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/police-hunt-four-covid-suspect-papuan-prisoners-after-escape-from-hospital/" aria-label="Read more about Police hunt four covid-suspect Papuan prisoners after escape from hospital">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2020
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta As the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while being arrested in the United States, sparks a global outcry, Indonesian rights advocates and young people have stepped forward to remind fellow citizens that racism has long been an issue at home as well. The scene of Floyd ... <a title="‘#PapuanLivesMatter’: George Floyd’s death exposes double standards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/06/papuanlivesmatter-george-floyds-death-exposes-double-standards/" aria-label="Read more about ‘#PapuanLivesMatter’: George Floyd’s death exposes double standards">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie in Jakarta A panel of judges at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by civil society groups against the Indonesian government’s decision to impose an internet blackout during weeks of protests in Papua and West Papua provinces last year, declaring that such a move violated ... <a title="Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/jokowi-violates-the-law-for-banning-internet-in-papua-court-rules/" aria-label="Read more about Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules">Read more</a>
