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| | WEST PAPUA (IRIAN JAYA) |
 | | West Papua is the western part of the island New Guinea and borders on the Moluccas in the West, Papua New Guinea in the East, and Australia in the South. |
 | | West Papua has a population of approximately 1.8 million of which nearly 900.000 are indigenous Melanesians, covering over 240 autonomous peoples who each have their own language, culture, and economic and institutional structures. |
 | | West Papua is rich in natural resources: gold, silver, natural gas, copper, timber etc. The Indonesian government, ever since it took over West Papua, takes full advantage of those resources, allowing only very small amount of the profits to reach West Papuans. |
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