A pregnant woman, an evangelist, and a teenager have been killed in a series of violent incidents in Indonesia’s restive Papua region. The killings have prompted the country’s national human rights body to open an investigation and drawn a rare rebuke from a government minister, raising concerns that soldiers are targeting civilians and worshipers in a conflict that offers little protection to those caught between the two sides.
Forests in West Papua are threatened by development projects that the government of Indonesia claims will boost the economy, despite the danger this poses to local indigenous groups. csi Guest commentary by Cypri Jehan Paju Dale, Ph.D. The Indonesian delegation at the United Nations continues to deny the alarming human rights situation in West… Read more »
Indigenous Christians in West Papua are calling on the new Indonesian government to drop plans to resume a controversial resettlement program that could see native Papuans further marginalized in their ancestral homeland. West Papuan Christians have reacted with dismay to an announcement by the newly elected government of President Prabowo Subianto that it plans to… Read more »
