International Crisis Group
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04 August 2010The Indonesian government needs urgently to address discontent in Papua, its easternmost region, and recognise that the root of the problem is political, not economic, according to this report.
The report examines the political fallout from Jakarta’s rejection of a local initiative to require all candidates in district-level elections to be indigenous Papuans. The debate that followed brought to the fore Papuan concerns about being increasingly marginalised by steady in-migration from other parts of Indonesia and unhappiness with implementation of a 2001 autonomy package.
To move forward, the president of Indonesia needs to explore directly with credible Papuan leaders how political autonomy can be expanded, affirmative action policies strengthened, and fears about migration addressed, according to the report.
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August 03, 2010
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Legally the territory is a Dutch colony just as East Timor was a Portuguese colony in 1999. The US drafted agreement signed by the Netherlands was in violation of the UN charter and UN General Assembly resolutions 1514 and 1541.
In other words West Papua is a colony and the human rights of the people is an issue for the United Nations.
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