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 West Irian Jaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West Irian Jaya (Indonesian: Irian Jaya Barat) is a province of Indonesia on the western end of the island of New Guinea.
The split is widely opposed in Papua itself, where it is viewed as a violation of special autonomy laws governing Papua, and as an effort to quell the Papuan separatist movement (see Papua history).
The capital of Irian Jaya Barat is in Manokwari.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Irian_Jaya   (235 words)

  
 Indonesia Diving Irian Jaya Papua Raja Ampat
Papua Diving (former Irian Diving) is an eco-tourism SCUBA diving operation located near Sorong, Indonesia, on the far western end of the island of New Guinea.
Papua Diving is a Dutch owned and managed company, while almost all the rest of the staff are indigenous Papuan people.
Papua is one of the wildest and least explored dive areas in the world.
www.papua-diving.com   (531 words)

  
 Flora and Fauna - YAT Lodging House, Manokwari Papua Barat Indonesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Papua Barat lies to the East of the Wallace line, which cuts through Indonesia between Kalimantan and Sulawesi, and separates the Asian and Australian biogeographical zones.
The plant species diversity in Papua Barat is one of the highest in the world, including an estimated 2700 orchid species.
In addition, Papua Barat is the home of countless invertebrates and reptiles, including large butterflies and the smaller (‘only’ 3 m long) relative of the Komodo-varan.
n.domaindlx.com /bolivarbg/florafaunae.html   (220 words)

  
 SABDA.org / PUBLIKASI / Doa 40 Hari / 2003 / Papua Barat (Irian Jaya)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tahun 1999 Presiden Indonesia, Abdurrachman Wahid, mengganti nama Irian Jaya menjadi Papua Barat.
Papua Barat memiliki etnis asli sama dengan orang-orang di Papua Timur, (Papua New Guinea/PNG) dan juga sama dengan orang-orang Malenesia lainnya di Pasifik.
Papua Barat adalah suatu tempat yang spektakuler dengan beragam keindahan; lereng- lereng gunung yang curam dan hutan-hutan lebat dengan satwa yang unik di dunia.
www.sabda.org /publikasi/40hari/2003/04   (630 words)

  
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Hal ini = membuktikan bahwa secara faktual tidak terdapat raja dikepulauan Raja = Ampat.=20 =20 Rakyat Papua Barat pernah mengenal seorang pemimpin armada laut asal = Biak bernama Kurabesi, yang menurut Kamma, pernah melakukan penjelajahan = hingga ke ujung barat Papua Barat.
Persoalan = Papua=20 Barat dianggap - seperti nampak dalam pernyataan Menlu-nya,
Ia mulai dengan membagi wilayah = Papua=20 Barat menjadi dua bagian ke dalam pemerintahan otonomi = (zelfbestuurgebied)=20 Tidore.
www.irja.org /archives/2002.txt   (16525 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Papua (Indonesian province) Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Papua is a province of Indonesia covering most of the western half of New Guinea and nearby smaller islands, sharing its eastern border with Papua New Guinea.
The name West Papua is also in common use, both to distinguish the country from Papua New Guinea and among nationalists who hope to separate from Indonesia and form their own country.
Papua has developed a diversity of separate cultures and languages; there are 253 known languages and over two hundred additional dialects.
www.ipedia.com /papua__indonesian_province_.html   (2268 words)

  
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Berkat Gerakan J= uli 1998 Papua Barat telah menjadi issue yang populer di Indonesia dewasa ini= =2E Di samping sukses yang telah dicapai terdapat duka yang paling dalam bahw= a menurut laporan dari PGI (Persekutuan Gereja Indonesia) lebih dari 140 or= ang dinyatakan hilang dan kebanyakan mayat mereka telah ditemukan terdampar d= i Biak.
Semoga Indonesia akan bersedia untuk merubah sejarah hitam yang ditulisny= a dengan memohon maaf kepada rakyat Papua Barat di kemudian hari.
Perjuangan kemerdekaan Papua Barat tidak pernah a= kan berhenti atau dihentikan oleh kekuatan apapun kecuali ketiga faktor (hak,= budaya dan latarbelakang sejarah) tersebut di atas dihapuskan keseluruhan= nya dari kehidupan manusia bermartabat.
www.irja.org /archives/2001.txt   (17806 words)

  
 Himbauan PDP Menjelang HUT Kemerdekaan Papua Barat, 1 December 2002
Kami rakyat Papua memberi tanah ini pada anda untuk diolah demi kesejahteraan anggota transmigrasi itu, bersama keluarganya.
Presidium Dewan Papua dengan ini menyampaikan rasa duka cita, penyesalan serta mengutuk keras tindakan aparat keamanan yang telah memicu timbulnya kerusuhan horisontal yang menelan puluhan korban jiwa penduduk sipil di Wamena-Jayawijaya.
Presidium Dewan Papua menuntut agar Pemerintah Pusat melindungi hak-hak social, politik dasn keamanan bagi setiap manusia yang hidup di tanah Papua tanpa membedakan suku, agama, ras, profesi maupun pandangan politiknya.
www.melanesianews.org /pdp/progress/01dec02.html   (2569 words)

  
 Lismore Regional Gallery: Papua Barat Merdeka - Free West Papua - The Northern Rivers Echo Newspaper, Lismore
The Lismore Regional Gallery is presenting a special exhibition this month entitled Papua Barat Merdeka: Free West Papua, which features a series of photographs by freelance journalist Andrew Kilvert.
The photographs, from the restive Indonesian province of West Papua, were taken over a three-year period during which Kilvert travelled and worked in the province.
West Papua is now effectively a 'no-go' zone for journalists, with Jakarta refusing to grant visas and expelling journalists who do attempt to report the issues.
www.echonews.com /1026/art_news.html   (306 words)

  
 Diving in Papua Barat (Irian Jaya) - Indonesia
During our visit of Papua Barat in the summer of 2003 we headed for the Raja Ampat Islands (sometimes also called Raja Empat Islands), which are on the way of being appointed by UNESCO a World Heritage Site.
Surveys of two teams from Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy in 2001 and 2002 came unanimously to the conclusion that this area is one of the few hotspots of underwater biodiversity in the world.
Papua Barat is the "Wild East" of Indonesia.
www.bodeweb.de /papuaengl.htm   (2105 words)

  
 West Papua Action - UN Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Events in Papua over the past three years have shown that the people's deep sense of betrayal and injustice done, with the apparent acquiescence of the UN, have been and continue to be a source of continual unrest.
There is deep disquiet in Papua about the fact that the murder investigations have been placed in the hands of the military, the very force that many people fear may have been responsible for the crime.
The grave betrayal continues to be a source of unrest and protest in Papua and constitutes a threat to stability and peace in the region of South East Asia.
wpaction.buz.org /unreview   (8543 words)

  
 Indonesia Provinces
Central Papua was supposed to be created on 2003-08-23, but violent protests forced the government to delay the action.
It also gives "Papua Barat" as an alternate name for the region (or geographical unit) named Irian Jaya; however, the province formerly known as Irian Jaya is now named Papua, with no alternate name.
Barat is West, Selatan is South, Tengah is Central, Tenggara is Southeast, Timur is East, and Utara is North.
www.statoids.com /uid.html   (2958 words)

  
 Homepage SDSP
To hear the name "Papua Barat" brings a few very exotic immages to many people: Tropical rainforrests, blue skies, sunshine and the local people and tribes.
New elements that are not in harmony with the wat the Papua people used to live: in harmony with nature.
Papua’s know their own political and social position (and status) had been damaged and weakend due to the arrival of a lot of transmigrants.
www.pz.nl /sdsp/uk_algemeen.html   (475 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Yogyakarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Map of Indonesia showing West Kalimantan province West Kalimantan (Indonesian: Kalimantan Barat) is one of the provinces of Indonesia.
Map showing West Irian Jaya province in Indonesia West Irian Jaya (Indonesian: Irian Jaya Barat) is a province of Indonesia on the western end of the island of New Guinea.
Map showing Papua province in Indonesia Papua is a province of Indonesia comprising part of the western half of the island of New Guinea and nearby islands (see also Western New Guinea).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yogyakarta   (2672 words)

  
 Papua, Press Agency News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pangkalan yang akan disiapkan, sudah jelas harus mampu memenuhi kebutuhan AS untuk melindungi kepentingan mereka dari pantai barat AS sampai ke Diego Garcia, terutama ”halaman belakang”nya yaitu Pasifik.
An FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) investigation team had went by themselves to Papua, interview witnesses freely, brought back necessary evidence to US forensics laboratories, and do a one year investigation to come to its final conclusion that those responsible for the fatal ambush is a Papuan separatist, Antonius Wamang from the OPM.
Meanwhile, Papua human rights activists have accuse Wamang of having links to the Indonesian military and say he was operating without the authorisation of the separatist leadership.
www.westpapua.net /news/04/08/070804-20_senator_as_soroti_papua_barat-5485.html   (13215 words)

  
 [Kabar-Irian] [ID] Laporan ELSHAM: Kasus Penembakan Tembagapura, Timika, Papua Barat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Papua, which is the size of California, also has the largest contiguous expanse of tropical rainforest outside of the Amazon and has the largest number of endemic species anywhere on earth.
Since 1967, two years before Papua officially became part of Indonesia, Freeport, in coalition with the Indonesian government, has acquired approximately 2.6 million hectares of land traditionally owned by local tribes without consideration of the locals' rights, the social, economic, political, and cultural consequences, or paying adequate compensation.
The culmination of the first stage of the Zone of Peace process was a conference on peace for Papua, co-sponsored by the governor, police chief and the provincial parliament together with ELSHAM and other civil society groups and held in Jayapura, October 15-16, 2002.
www.kabar-irian.com /pipermail/kabar-irian/2002-October/000030.html   (4742 words)

  
 Irian Jaya - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
Irian Jaya is the western part of New Guinea and shares its eastern border with Papua New Guinea.
Resistance to Indonesian occupation, both from the quasi-military Organisasi Papua Merdeka[?] (OPM, or Free Paupa Movement) and through civil disobediance, has been a recurrent theme since the 1960s to now.
A proposal to split the province into three new provinces: Papua Barat (West Papua), Papua Tengah (Central Papua) and Papua Timur (East Papua) was not ratified.
www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/ir/Irian_Jaya.html   (566 words)

  
 Irian Jaya Diving Indonesia Diving Raja Ampat Raja Empat Sorong Papua Diving Irian Jaya
Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, is the most Eastern province of Indonesia.
The Eastern half of New Guinea is an independent country, Papua New Guinea.
To enter Papua itself, you need a surat jalan which is issued by the local police.
www.papua-diving.com /Travel-help.html   (1520 words)

  
 West Papua Action - Latest News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
West Papua Action was founded in 1996 to campaign and educate in solidarity with the people of West Papua, brutally occupied by Indonesia since 1963.
West Papua was dropped quietly from the United Nations' agenda, and the killings and torture continue to a deafening international silence.
West Papua Action joins with solidarity groups around the world aiming to put West Papua back on the UN agenda, to campaign against human rights abuses in the territory, and to open it up to the scrutiny of the media, non-governmental organisations and politicians.
westpapuaaction.buz.org /latest-news.htm   (9318 words)

  
 Papua Diving-Dive Irian Jaya & Diving Papua Raja Ampat Dive
Raja Ampat Diving Trip at PAPUA BARAT Indonesia.
PAPUA BARAT / IRIAN JAYA - John Roach, for National Geographic News, August 8, 2001: Scuba divers, take note: The waters of the Raja Ampat Islands Papua Diving site off Indonesia's province of Irian Jaya or Papua Barat may replace heralded Palau as the most species-rich sea in the world.
The Irian Papua Barat diving package excludes airfare from your hometown to Sorong vice versa and diving equipments other than those are above mentioned.
www.kapalselam.org /trips61.html   (824 words)

  
 Papua Press Agency @ westpapua.net ©Diary of OPM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Indonesia Commission: Peace and Progress in Papua, Report of an Independent Commission, Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Preventive Action, by Dennis C. Blair, Chair, David L. Phillips, Project Director, 2003.
PAPUA MENGGUGAT: Politik Otonomisasi NKRI di Papua Barat, by Sem Karoba, 30 August 2003.
West Papua Case is morally, democratically and legally justified one.
www.westpapua.net   (794 words)

  
 Inside Indonesia - Digest 90 - West Papua's opinion makers
He calls himself Great Leader of the Papuan Nation (Pemimpin Besar Bangsa Papua, up from Pemimpin Papua Barat, or Pemimpin Rakyat Bangsa Papua), but his influence is greatest in the Sentani area near Jayapura, where he is known as a tribal elder (ondofolo).
This suggests that the West Papuan movement is populist and unorganised enough to be vulnerable to penetration by actors whose loyalties are unclear to say the least.
In 1969 Eluay was among the 1000 delegates to a college that 'voted' for West Papua to become part of Indonesia in the widely criticised UN-supervised 'Act of Free Choice'.
www.insideindonesia.org /digest/dig90.htm   (736 words)

  
 Visit to Papua Barat
Our second visit to Manokwari, Papua Barat and first visit to the Kebar Valley.
We left the Philippines January 8, overnighted in Ujung Pandung, then arrived in Jayapura, West Papua.
While we were traveling Indonesian President Gus Dur renamed the province Papua, which seems to usually be Papua Barat (West Papua) to avoid confusion with Papua New Guinea, the east side of the island.
www.peacemaking.com /indonesia/images/papua.html   (478 words)

  
 West Papua 14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A spokesman for the pro-independence Papua Presidium, Franzalbert Joku, unveiled a peace plan in the Australian city of Melbourne, calling for the deployment of UN peace monitors in the province.
Our trusted resources from Sorong (Bird-head) West Papua reported that the escalation of human rights abuses become real that consi-derable number of civilians were killed, tortured and disappeared as a consequences of last week clashes between the occupation troops and Satgas pro-independence.
Because of this incident, the Police declared “war against indigenous Papuans from the Highlands of Papua Barat”.
www.koteka.net /wp141220.htm   (1180 words)

  
 Online Petition - PEPERA BAGI PAPUA BARAT
Terakhir pada November Kelabu, 11 November 2001, Ketua PDP, Ketua LMA Papua, Kunci Pelaku Sejarah Papua dan Politisi Tokoh Adat cinta damai dibunuh oleh pihak-pihak yang ingin mengganggu perjuangan damai di tanah Papua.
Demikian saya sampaikan atas nama bangsa Papua dan segala makhluk di tanah saya.
The "PEPERA BAGI PAPUA BARAT" Petition to "Mr.
www.gopetition.com /online/626.html   (393 words)

  
 People of Manokwari - YAT Lodging House, Manokwari Papua Barat Indonesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A large part of the inhabitants of Manokwari originally emigrated from Biak, occupying most of the coastline, thus driving the original inhabitants further inland.
These include both ‘natural’ immigrants and people who have moved from the overpopulated islands of Java and Sulawesi to the so-called transmigration areas in Papua Barat, where they receive a house and some land.
In addition, many Chinese tradesmen can be found in Manokwari, part of which were born and raised in Papua Barat and are completely integrated into the community.
n.domaindlx.com /bolivarbg/peoplee.html   (470 words)

  
 West Papua News - The Newsletter of West Papua Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
For example, on December 20, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu leaders in Papua united in their commitment to peace and called for dialogue to overcome the sociopolitical problems in Papua.
Rampant human rights allegations made by foreign parties against the military in the provinces were part of a foreign conspiracy to separate the provinces from Indonesia, he told a seminar.
You will receive four issues of West Papua News, be notified of events, and strengthen the campaign for human rights and self-determination in West Papua.
wpaction.buz.org /newsletter   (1788 words)

  
 Visit to Papua Barat May 2000
I got to sit by the window on the last one.
We began in Jayapura, the provincial capital, which is on the north side at the border with Papua New Guinea.
The joke here was that Kuriake became the first Javanese thrown back into the sea by native Papuans, or rather "Kuriake menjadi orang Java pertama dibuang di laut oleh orang Papua asli." The word buang is used for throwing something away.
peacemaking.com /indonesia/images/papua2.html   (512 words)

  
 West Papua 31   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This letter is based on a letter dated Oct 28 sent by Musiran, the caretaker Governor of Papua Province, which called on the militia to "tidy-up" the DKIJ building.
DKIJ is a government asset that used to be a cultural center.
the Satgas Papua and act in response to the Police.
www.koteka.net /wp311020.htm   (764 words)

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