Tag Archives: Wasior Berdarah

“It’s forest that we can live from, not oil palm”

“A protest was made in 2015, but the government’s response was a permit to release state forest” Jakarta – A civil society coalition took action outside the Environment and Forestry Ministry on Friday (23/03/2018), protesting a permit to release state forest land near the Wosimi River in Naikere and Kuriwamesa subdistricts of Wondama Bay Regency, […]

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Komnas HAM’s National Inquiry Papua Region: President Should Re-examine MIFEE Program

Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission held the testimonial hearing of its National Inquiry for the Papua region in the Law and Human Rights Ministry Regional Office from 26th-28th November 2014. The hearing investigated five cases: PTPN II’s oil palm plantation in Arso, Keerom Regency, PT Nabire Baru and PT Sariwana Unggal Mandiri’s oil palm plantation […]

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Artha Graha’s Sinister Logging Business in Wondama Bay

Indigenous communities in villages in the forested interior of Wondiboi, Naikere and Kuriwamesa Districts in Wondama Bay Regency, still feel traumatised by the ‘Bloody Wasior’ events which took place in 2001. Even now they are unable to forget the murders, the tortures, the freedom usurped, the rapes, the forced disappearances, being forced to flee, the […]

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