Tag: Transmigration
West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura
Just one day after President Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration, a minister announced plans to resume the transmigration programme in eastern Indonesia,...
Papuan academics accuse Indonesia of new ‘indigenous marginalisation’ strategy
Jubi News in Jayapura
Academics at Papuan tertiary institutions have accused Indonesian authorities of a new "indigenous marginalisation" programme through the establishment of the autonomous...
NZ should raise human plight of West Papuans at UN, says...
RNZ Pacific
A New Zealand explorer who trekked in West Papua before Indonesian rule says he is saddened to see what colonisation has done to...