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  PapuaWeb: Informasi Papua, Indonesia (Irian Jaya, West Papua)
PapuaWeb adalah jaringan informasi untuk kalangan peneliti, konsultan, pemimpin rakyat, kalangan pemerintah, dll yang menaruh perhatian pada Papua, Indonesia.
Universitas Papua, Unversitas Cenderawasih dan Australian National University sebagai pengelola Papuaweb, menerima kontribusi dalam bentuk hasil-hasil penelitian untuk mengembangkan situs ini.
The University of Papua, Cenderawasih University and the Australian National University, the project hosts, welcome contributions of research materials to enhance the resources of this website
www.papuaweb.org   (120 words)

  
  BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Indonesia flashpoints: Papua
Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, has been dogged by secessionist violence ever since Dutch colonial rule formally ended in 1962.
The Dutch colonised Papua in 1828, but unlike the rest of Indonesia, they did not relinquish control of the province until the 1960s.
When the Dutch left, they handed Papua over to the United Nations and then to Jakarta, in a transfer agreement which stipulated that Papuans would be able to decide within six years whether to accept incorporation into Indonesia.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3815909.stm   (466 words)

  
  Papua-Neuguinea
The todays flag of Papua New Guinea was officially introduced on 12th of March in 1971 (by other sources not until the 1st of July in 1971).
Papua New Guinea is orientated in the British Ensign-System.
Papua became colonized by Great Britain at the end of the 19th century and in 1888 was introduced the first flag.
www.flaggenlexikon.de /fpapua.htm   (2561 words)

  
 West Papua Information Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Again, during his visit to Papua in April Internal Affairs Minister Hari Subarno explicitly stated that the central government was not satisfied with the proposal from Papua because the MRP would have the power to cancel decisions made by the DPRP and the Governor.
Furthermore, the general elucidation of Otsus states that Papua Province has boundaries as follows: to the north with the Pacific Ocean, to the south with Maluku Province and the Arafura Sea, to the west with the Provinces of Maluku and North Maluku and to the east with the State of Papua New Guinea.
Article 56 of Otsus states that education is an autonomous competence for Papua Province except that the Central Government shall stipulate the general policy for University-level education and the core curriculum at all levels of education.
www.westpapua.se /news/lsulivan.htm   (6740 words)

  
 Both sides must face it - the Papua problem is not going away - Opinion
Dozens of Indonesian non-government organisations and Papua support groups have been telling the Jakarta elite loudly and clearly, for the past eight years, about "reform", that Papua is being betrayed again, as it was under the Dutch and under Indonesia's Soeharto regime.
Papua is far from Java; Indonesia has trouble focusing on it, but reform will eventually prevail under Yudhoyono.
He said a few years ago that Australia had always supported Papua's incorporation in the Indonesian republic, while Australia's ambassador in Washington, Dennis Richardson, has recently informed the world that "Papua is part of the sovereign territory of Indonesia and always has been".
www.smh.com.au /news/opinion/both-sides-must-face-it--the-papua-problem-is-not-going-away/2006/04/04/1143916523971.html?page=fullpage   (866 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea (09/06)
Papua was administered under the Papua Act until the Japanese invaded the northern parts of the islands in 1941 and began to advance on Port Moresby and civil administration was suspended.
Papua New Guinea's politics are highly competitive with most members elected on a personal and ethnic basis within their constituencies rather than as a result of party affiliation.
Papua New Guinea has an active tuna industry, but much of the catch is made by boats of other nations fishing in Papua New Guinea waters under license.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2797.htm   (4277 words)

  
 The Nature Conservancy in Papua New Guinea - Papua New Guinea:: Features:: Asia Pacific Postcards from the Field ...
Twenty five years of my life were spent as an educator in colleges and universities in Papua New Guinea, a country only known in colonial days as "land of savages and headhunters" and considered of little value to the western commercial world.
Papua New Guinea’s remaining tropical rainforests are the biological storehouse for nearly 5% of the world’s biodiversity.
Given such threats, the spread of the conservation message in Papua New Guinea must be pursued with commitment and vigor before one of the world’s last biological treasures is destroyed.
www.nature.org /wherewework/asiapacific/papuanewguinea/features/art8483.html   (597 words)

  
 An Introduction to Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of the rugged tropical island of New Guinea(which it shares with the Indonesian territory of Irian Jaya) as well as numerous smaller islands and atolls in the Pacific.
The central part of the island rises into a wide ridge of mountains known as the Highlands, a territory that is so densely forested and topographically forbidding that the island's local peoples remained isolated from each other for millennia.
Papua New Guinea's climate is tropical, as one would expect in a country located just south of the Equator.
www.geographia.com /papua-newguinea   (262 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea travel guide - Wikitravel
Papua New Guinea is an island nation in Australasia.
Papua New Guinea (known popularly as 'PNG') - the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (which is the second largest island in the world) - was divided between Germany ('German New Guinea') and Great Britain ('British Papua') in 1884.
Papua was owned by England but administered by Australia - and thus a colony of a colony - until Australian independence, when in 1906 it became an Australian colony.
wikitravel.org /en/Papua_New_Guinea   (2565 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea
The flag of PNG was introduced with Papua New Guinea Government Gazette Extraordinary, Nr.
In particular, the Papua New Guinea National Flag does not affect the use of the Red or Blue Ensign, which will continue to be flown as heretofore on ships.
Except for the official and personal purposes of the Administrator and for Commonwealth purposes, the National Flag may be flown or used alone, in the same manner that the Australian National Flag has been used to date.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/pg.html   (1145 words)

  
 Destination Biak - Papua
Papua Provice (Irian Jaya, former Netherland New Guinea) is a hot, humid island rising from the sea with some of the most impenetrable jungles in the world and yet also has snow caps covering 5.000 meter - high mountain peaks, towering over glacier lakes.
Papua islands Indonesia’s largest and easternmost province and covers the western half of the world’s second largest island.
The flatter coastal regions of Papua, however, were visited as early as the 7th century by traders from Sriwijaya.
destinationbiak.net /wapnase/biak/papua   (719 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is a federal multiparty parliamentary democracy.
The ECP met with some initial success, but in May the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court ruled that immunity of AFP officers from prosecution in local courts, which had been a condition of the ECP, was unconstitutional.
A government reservation to the 1951 convention regarding the issuance of travel documents restricted the travel of some persons from the Indonesian province of Papua living in a refugee camp in the western part of the country.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61623.htm   (4963 words)

  
 Papua - The Wire - October2002 - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
So far, the authorities have not carried out an investigation into the shooting of the 15-year-old girl, the whereabouts of her younger brother, the death in custody of Daniel Yairus Ramar, or any of the other reports of human rights violations which took place in Wasior.
The pattern is a familiar one in Papua, where allegations of human rights violations are rarely investigated.
The failure to hold accountable perpetrators of human rights violations is not unique to Papua, but reflects the situation throughout Indonesia.
web.amnesty.org /web/wire.nsf/October2002/Papua   (525 words)

  
 Giving New Lease of Life to Papua New Guinea's HIV Patients
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (12 January 2003) - In mid-2002, Papua New Guinea became the fourth country in the Asian and Pacific region - after Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar - to be recognized as having a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic.
WHO has recommended that Papua New Guinea be placed in the group of countries given priority for increased access to anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs through the International Treatment Access Coalition (ITAC).
"Papua New Guinea is hoping for future financing for AIDS programs from the Global Fund, which could help in the replication of this scheme and in ensuring its sustainability," says Robert Siy, Jr.
www.adb.org /Media/Articles/2004/4076_Papua_New_Guinea_HIV_Patients/default.asp   (1025 words)

  
 Papua Adventures - Introduction to West Papua
West Papua forms the western half of the large island widely known as New Guinea.
To experience West Papua is to embark on a voyage into one of humanity's deepest mysteries.
West Papua is home to the most ethnologically primitive cultures on Earth.
www.papua-adventures.com /introduction.html   (414 words)

  
 Papua
The Papua Campaign made clear that U.S. Army units committed to combat in the summer of 1942 were insufficiently trained, equipped, led, and supported in comparison to an enemy that had been fighting for five years.
Readings on the Papua Campaign are generally broad in scope but few in number.
The most exhaustive treatment of the campaign remains Samuel Milner, Victory in Papua (1957), a volume in the series United States Army in World War II.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/papua/papua.htm   (6328 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Asia : Papua New Guinea
The government of Papua New Guinea should immediately investigate police killings of up to three schoolchildren and the injuring of roughly two dozen others in Enga province on October 31, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Papua New Guinea government must act to stop the police from engaging in brutal beatings, rape and torture of arrestees, many of who are children, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has not yet acceded to the Mine Ban Treaty despite some indications of support.
www.hrw.org /asia/papuanewguinea.php   (1266 words)

  
 Papua Adventure Tours and Travel
It became part of Indonesia in 1963 when it was acquired from the Dutch and is Indonesia’s largest Province.
PAPUA is the other name for Irian Jaya and it is administratively dedicated by Indonesian Government in year 2002 for the indigenous people in the island.
To travel around remote places in Papua mostly by air transport, from Jayapura to Wamena by regular flights of Merpati or Trigana air, while Missionary flights can also be chartered to and from remote villages.
www.papuaadventure.com /index.htm   (283 words)

  
 HAM PAPUA-Home2
This website is maintained by the Catholic Diocese of Jayapura and the Franciscan Friars in West Papua through the Office of Justice and Peace (Sekretariat Keadilan dan Perdamaian/ SKP) as an effort to accurately portray the human rights situation in West Papua and to publicise it.
This gathering was supposed to be held in Agats, Asmat, but the flight connection difficulty forced to move the venue to the Timika with SKP Agats as the organiser assisted by SKP Timika.
This demand was delivered to the National Commission on Human Rights branch office of Papua (Komda HAM) when PGGP presented the investigative report of the case of Abepura 16 March 2006.
www.hampapua.org /home2.html   (1157 words)

  
 NTM - planting tribal churches : Png - PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Missionaries Jonathan and Melissa Jackson visited a village in Papua New Guinea with a group of mature tribal Christians and saw a vision of the future for the Siar people.
Siar tribe, Papua New Guinea (March 21st): Missionaries Jonathan and Melissa Jackson visited a village with a group of mature tribal Christians and saw a vision of the future for the Siar people.
Missionaries preparing to teach 14 Dinangat students in Papua New Guinea to read and write are asking themselves a lot of questions.
www.ntm.org /png   (254 words)

  
 Case Study
Surek Bordia, head of the Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Technology in Papua, says if all current mining projects remain productive, by the year 2000 the nation could move from 7th to 3rd place in ranking of the largest gold producers in the world.
Bordia said with geological resources of 1,324 tons of gold, Lihir is the world's largest gold deposit outside South Africa.(Ehrlich 41) Other third-world nations also have experience with corporations based in other nations tapping their mining resources.(see BRAGOLD case).
"The Ok Tedt project was exempted by the Papua New Guinea government from its 1978 Protection act because the 1982 Ok Tedt Environmental Study, a company-generated document, was considered to be more environmentally appropriate." (Johnston 89) Initially Ok Tedt was supposed to limit the disposal of useless ore (tailings) to the Ok Tedt river.
www.american.edu /TED/PAPUA.htm   (1693 words)

  
 Papua - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Papua, easternmost province of Indonesia, occupying the western half of the island of New Guinea.
Port Moresby, capital city and biggest population center of Papua New Guinea, located on the southern coast of New Guinea island, on Paga Point...
Japan invaded the island during World War II (1939-1945).
encarta.msn.com /Papua.html   (101 words)

  
 Papua travel guide - Wikitravel
Papua is incredibly diverse and different from the rest of Indonesia (or, for that matter, anywhere else in the world).
Despite of a population of under three million, Papua is home to over 800 languages and has cultures that are technologically still in the Stone Age.
Papua New Guinea - to the east, the eastern half of New Guinea
wikitravel.org /en/Papua   (539 words)

  
 Books Written by and About West Papua and Independence Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
PAPUA MENGGUGAT: Teori Politik Otonomisasi NKRI di Papua Barat!
Saltford concludes that the involvement of the UN during the decolonisation or recolonisation of West Papua was significant.
This paper argues that the handing over of West Papua to Indonesia was a failure of the UN to exercise its own resolutions and the UN Charter in particular.
www.westpapua.net /docs/books   (756 words)

  
 West Papua Action - About Us
West Papua Action is a solidarity and campaigning initiative begun in Co. Laois, and formally launched in January 1996 in Kildare, Ireland.
In 2000, West Papua Action worked with PaVo (The Netherlands) and Tapol (London) to organise the First International Solidarity Meeting in the Netherlands; this was followed by the Second International West Papua Solidarity Meeting in 2001 in Germany, hosted by the Pacific Information Desk.
Membership of West Papua Action, which is valid for one year, will entitled you to receive 4 issues of our newsletter West Papua News.
westpapuaaction.buz.org /about-wpa.htm   (744 words)

  
 WWF - Environmental conservation work in Papua New Guinea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A festival in eastern Papua New Guinea pays tribute to crocodiles of the Sepik River, one of the largest unpolluted rivers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Local communities in Papua New Guinea gathered along the volcanic slopes of Mount Bosavi in the country’s Southern Highlands to celebrate the creation of three new protected areas.
The primary objective of this project is to get the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) to ratify the United Nations (UN) Water Convention as PNG hos...
www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/asia_pacific/where/papua_new_guinea/index.cfm   (201 words)

  
 Papua Lobby
West Papua should be a zone of peace where there is freedom from any form of oppression." AlHamid made his appeal during the symposium and public debate on 'Historical myths and conflict resolution'.
A large delegation from Presidium Dewan Papua en Dewan Adat Papua came from West Papua to participate in the constructive discussions on how historical mistakes contributed to the current situation in West Papua and how the problems might be resolved: first and foremost by paeceful dialogue.
The PDP has very wide support in West Papua and aims to achieve the aspirations of the people of West Papua through peaceful dialogue with all stakeholders and the building of a civil society in West Papua.
www.nieuwsbank.nl /papua-lobby   (486 words)

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