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	Western New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The region of West New Guinea is the western half of the island of New Guinea or Papua, and has also been known as Irian Jaya or West Papua.
		The border with Papua New Guinea is a mix between the artificial border of the 141st meridian, and the natural border of the Fly River.
		West Papuan culture was forcibly repressed under the forty years of Indonesian rule since 1963.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Papua (2628 words)

	West Papua - Introduction
		West Papua borders the independent nation of Papua New Guinea and forms the western half of the world's second largest island.
		West Papua became the twenty-sixth province of Indonesia in 1969 after the so-called "Act of Free Choice", sponsored by the UN, saw the transfer of official administration from The Netherlands, the colonial power, to Indonesia.
		The indigenous people of West Papua are of the same ethnic origin as those in the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and are also related ethnically and culturally to other Melanesian peoples of the Pacific.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/cline/papua/intro.htm (377 words)

	West Papua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		West Papua is the western part of the island of 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 1,800,000, of which approximately 900,000 are indigenous West Papua and 900,000 are Indonesian.
		During the last 30 years, vast areas of West Papua have been granted as concessions to multinational, transnational and Indonesian mining, oil and logging companies without consultation with, or approval of, the indigenous peoples who have inherited these lands from their ancestors who held them for 40,000 years.
	www.unpo.org /member.php?arg=56 (1173 words)

	West Papua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated in West Papua as a result of the international political conspiracy in which Indonesia, the Netherlands, the United States of America and the United Nations were involved must be thoroughly investigated and the perpetrators tried before an international tribunal.
		Negotiations to settle the question of the political status of West Papua by just and democratic means must be undertaken between the lawful representatives of the Papuan Nation and Indonesia, the Netherlands, the United States and the United Nations.
		West Papua remains extremely tense following muted celebrations on 1 December to mark the day in 1961 when a Papuan Council adopted the 'Morning Star' flag as their national emblem amid promises from the Dutch colonial administration of a process leading to a genuine act of self-determination.
	www.melanesia.org /westpapua.htm (2998 words)

	FREE WEST PAPUA MOVEMENT
		Finally I do believe that the Melanesian people of West Papua will be recognised and given the chance to determine their future political status, and given the current turbulent political climate in Indonesia, that time is soon.
		The army commander warned if any West Papuan wanted to support a state of West Papua, their tongue would be cut off, that it would be better for them to ask the United States to find a new place on the moon for them.
		West Papua was on the way to self-determination and self-government, but because the Dutch were so naive, they did not follow the developments of the new post-war politics.
	www.converge.org.nz /wpapua/opm.html (4687 words)

	West Papua: Nobel Prize Desmond Tutu calls on UN to act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The people of West Papua have been denied their basic human rights, including their right to self-determination.
		It is with deep concern I have learned about the United Nations’; role in the take-over of West Papua by Indonesia, and in the now-discredited “Act of ‘Free’ Choice”; of 1969.
		Instead of a proper referendum, where every adult male and female had the opportunity to vote by secret ballot on whether or not they wished to be part of Indonesia, just over 1,000 people were hand-picked and coerced into declaring for Indonesia in public in a climate of fear and repression.
	www.unpo.org /news_detail.php?arg=56&par=435 (548 words)

	West Papua Action - UN Review
		West Papua was actually promised independence from the Dutch, the former colonial power (by 1st December 1970).
		To conclude, there is overwhelming evidence to show that the West Papuans did not have the opportunity to exercise their right to self-determination as guaranteed in the New York Agreement and under UNGA Resolution 1514 on the granting of independence to colonial peoples (14 December 1960).
		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.
	wpaction.buz.org /unreview (8543 words)

	West Papua Action - Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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: The human rights violations inflicted on the people of West Papua are the same as those suffered by the people of East Timor, an activist from the western Pacific island has said.
		West Papua was dropped quietly from the United Nations' agenda, and the killings and torture continue to a deafening international silence.
	westpapuaaction.buz.org /latest-news.htm (9318 words)

	awpa-melb
		More than 300 students from across West Papua are today meeting with Presidium Dewan Papua (PDP)leaders in Jaya Pura, to discuss the details of a new national body of unity, and urge the PDP to support the body.
		The Dutch flag was also raised, because as the colonial power in West Papua, Dutch administrators discussed their colony's program for independence at the first meeting of the South Pacific Forum which was held in Canberra in 1947.
		Kin and neighbours in Papua New Guinea and Republic of South Maluka issued solidarity when Barbara Carl and Nico Leatomu raised West Papua's Morning Star flag and the lesser known flag of the West Papuan Council, the most influential of West Papuan's six political parties.
	www.awpa-melb.asn.au (693 words)

	SELF-DETERMINATION FOR WEST PAPUA Petition
		In November 2001, two senior UN officials, including the head of the UN mission to oversee the handing-over of West Papua to Indonesia, admitted that the Act of Free Choice was a sham - ‘a whitewash, designed to appease the Americans and the Indonesians’.
		West Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea.
		Shamefully the UN sanctioned this vote, and West Papua became the province of Irian Jaya.
	www.petitiononline.com /westpap/petition.html (432 words)

	Watch Papua - Ndugu Ndugu Research and Publishing Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The complexities of problems in West Papua are mostly hidden and unexposed.
		As a consequence, the world is ignorant of the roots/ causes of political, social, economic, cultural, and environmental problems in West Papua.
		It is the task of us Papuans to educate the world by presenting the whole stories on West Papua: objectively, openly, and thoroughly or comprehensively with proposals of solutions.
	www.melanesianews.org /watch (85 words)

	The case against Freeport McMoran in West Papua - Documents to use in evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The people of West Papua were promised independence by their Dutch rulers, but Indonesia claimed the territory and threatened to invade.
		This transfer took place without the agreement of the people of West Papua and the West Papuan National Council which had the power and authority to determine the fate of the people of West Papua; this power and authority was arbitrarily ignored in the New York Agreement concluded on 15 August 1962.
		Members of a major conference on the future of West Papua have called on the United Nations to oversee an independence referendum.Around 80 members of various independence factions met in the West Papua town of Sentani.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/freeport4.htm (6658 words)

	Papua Press Agency @ westpapua.net ©Diary of OPM
		West Papua Issue is NO LONGER an Isolated Issue: The Time has Come Now for Our Civilised and Democratic World to Review the So-Called "UN Supervised Act of Free Choice 1969" in West Papua, A Briefing Paper, Presented by The West Papuan Peoples’Representative Office, Port Vila, the Republic of Vanuatu, July 2004
		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)

	Freedom in the World 1998-99: West Papua (Irian Jaya) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ratings change: West Papua's civil liberties rating changed from 7 to 6 due to a slight easing of restrictions on freedom of expression which coincided with President Suharto's May 1998 ouster.
		According to HRW, as the year ended, trials were underway or expected to begin for 30 people accused of raising the West Papuan flag in separate incidents in Wamena in July and Maokwari in October, and for six people accused of organizing demonstrations in Jayapura in July and October.
		The constant loss of ancestral land to development projects has been one of the factors contributing to what is believed to be fairly widespread support among the population for independence.
	www.freedomhouse.org /survey99/relterr/wpapua.html (1056 words)

	WestPAN: Canada's West Papua Action Network \| The most dynamic resource for information on West Papua
		"Yan Christian's commitment to the people of West Papua is a moving, powerful example of commitment to human rights in the face of extreme adversity, intimidation and threats to his personal safety," said Wayne MacKay, interim Chair of Rights & Democracy's Board of Directors and a member of the John Humphrey Freedom Award's international jury.
		In June, West Papua's outgoing military commander, Major General Nurdin Zainal, inaugurated a new resort or sub-regional military command (Korem) at Merauke in the south of West Papua, near the border with Papua New Guinea[1].
		Earlier, in March 2005, the Indonesian military (TNI) announced plans to locate a new division of its strategic reserve command troops, Kostrad, at Sorong in the west of the province close to the BP Tangguh natural gas project, and increase the number of infantry battalions from three to six [2].
	www.westpapua.ca (1373 words)

	CPACS - West Papua Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		West Papua Project position paper 2: Exploring the Prospects of Peace with Justice: Report on a Workshop and Future Plans, September 2001
		West Papua Project position paper 4: Reconciliation and Consolidation Among Papuans: Report on Workshop III, January 2003.
		West Papua Project position paper 5: Peacebuilding and Development in West Papua – Dialogue versus Violence: Hearing other Voices.
	www.arts.usyd.edu.au /centres/cpacs/wpp.htm (414 words)

	FreeWestPapua.org - For a Fee & Independent West Papua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The forgotten land of West Papua is occupied by Indonesia, against the will of its people.
		West Papuans have been resisting this onslaught and struggling for their freedom for over 40 years.
		This site gives you background information about West Papua, as well as updated news and campaigns.
	www.freewestpapua.org (152 words)

	Free Papua Movement (OPM)
		The US Government asserts that the Free Papua Movement has committed human rights abuses including hostage-taking and summary executions, and it may be targeting US citizens or US companies in Irian Jaya Province for hostage taking or for sabotage.
		Free Papua Movement supporters assert, to the contrary, that human rights abuses have been committed by Indonesian Special Forces (KOMPASSUS), and that the US mining conglomerate Freeport McMoRan has been responsible for environmental abuses in West Papua.
		West Papua Action Update -- a networking tool for those of us who want to take direct action in support of the OPM/TPN.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/papua.htm (565 words)

	f P c N :: friends of Peoples close to Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Benny Wenda of the “Chair of DeMMak (The Koteka Tribal Assembly)” International Lobbyist in the UK for a Free West Papua and Mr.
		Richard Samuelson of the Free West Papua Campaign (www.freewestpapua.org) were also present at Malieveld, The Hague.
		Tuesday 8 July 2005: 12 members of the TNI from two districts (Assologoima and Bogolame) began intimidating and torturing innocent Papuan civilians in the little village of Moragame (Pyramid) in Assologoima District, near the town of Wamena.
	www.fpcn-global.org (832 words)

	IRIAN JAYA (WEST PAPUA, NEW GUINEA): THE QUEST FOR INDEPENDENCE
		Irian Jaya (West Papua, New Guinea) is the western half of the island of New Guinea.
		IRIAN JAYA (WEST PAPUA, NEW GUINEA): THE QUEST FOR INDEPENDENCE-AUGUST 20, 2000 TO AUGUST 31, 2000
		IRIAN JAYA (WEST PAPUA, NEW GUINEA): THE QUEST FOR INDEPENDENCE-AUGUST 10, 2000 TO AUGUST 19, 2000
	www.angelfire.com /journal/issues/irian.html (753 words)

	WEST PAPUA: We will be free! - NI 344 - Contents
		West Papuans are well on the way to freedom, but it’s too early to celebrate yet.
		But in a cargo plane flying over the West Papuan highlands at seven in the morning, this was a generous breakfast treat that made us all smile.
		All around their country, West Papuans want to share with you what little they have.
	www.newint.org /issue344/contents.htm (591 words)

	www.westpapua.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This Oxford based group monitors the human rights violations in West Papua and campaigns for basic freedoms, including the Papuans’ established right of self-determination.
		Viktor Kaisiepo, the son of West Papua’s first president Manuel Kaisiepo, was also present.
		This University based group is aiming to set up a student exchange programme between the University of Oxford and Papuan Universities as well as other educational activities, cultural and social events.
	www.westpapua.org (156 words)

	PreventConflict.org - Regions
		West Papua, also known as Irian Jaya, is Indonesia’s most easterly province, comprising the western half of the world’s second largest island.
		West Papua/Irian Jaya is also one of the primary locations for Indonesia’s program on transmigration, the voluntary relocation of Indonesians from overcrowded cities to the peripheral regions of the archipelago.
		West Papua/Irian Jaya is home to a secessionist movement that has been in the making for 40 years.
	www.preventconflict.org /portal/main/maps_wpapua_resources.php (5264 words)

	PapuaWeb: Informasi Papua, Indonesia (Irian Jaya, West Papua)
		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.
	www.papuaweb.org (120 words)

	West Papua
		West Papua: Land of Peace or Killing Field, Paper presented by Carmel Budiardjo to the fifth international solidarity meeting for West Papua, 30 April 2005
		Solidarity for West Papua on 1 December 2004: in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch
		West Papua Action - a campaigning and solidarity initiative; useful informative site with links to other sources of information on West Papua and international solidarity groups.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/wpapua.htm (2371 words)

	Adherents.com: By Location
		"West Papua is the western part of the Island of New Guinea, north of Australia.
		West Papua, previously a Dutch colony, came under Indonesian control in 1963.
		Indonesia has handed over large portions of West Papua to foreign mining, oil and forest companies.
	www.adherents.com /adhloc/Wh_150.html (3141 words)

	WEST PAPUA HOMEPAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Generate a community of pro-active world wide dialogue and ideas to assist and support the people's of West Papua and the OPM in achieving their independence from Indonesian domination.
		Educate and inform as to Why, How and What has happened, and is still happening in West Papua; and how you can help to end these injustices.
		Promote the distribution of information and conduct a forum whereby the collective voice of all those concerned for a free and independent West Papua can and will be expressed and exchanged without fear of reprisal, censorship, or interference from authorities.
	www.converge.org.nz /wpapua (196 words)

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