SUMMARY: A comprehensive biography of Edison Waromi, Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of West Papua (2011–) that can be equally viewed as the biography of a Melanesian nation-state, prepared by Louise Byrne for the 2013 Australian Anthropological Society Conference…
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Prayers for West Papua at MSG : Mon 2 Feb 2015
DAY OF ABSTINENCE AND PRAYER Monday 2 February 2015 : 10am-6pm Suite 211, 838 Collins St, Docklands The new West Papua Womens Office is hosting a DAY OF ABSTINENCE AND PRAYER to support West Papua’s application to join the Melanesian…
Prayers for West Papua at MSG : Mon 6 April 2015
Supporting West Papua’s application to join Melanesian Spearhead Group in June 2015. Since the Vanuatu Government’s Reconciliation and Unity Summit for West Papuan leaders in December 2014, the (elected) committee of West Papuans has drawn up and presented a comprehensive…
Australian trade unions sign deal with Federal Republic of West Papua: Trades Hall, 15 May 2015
FRUIT OF THE VINE: a comprehensive deal between the Australian trade union movement and the Federal Republic of West Papua. On Friday 15 May 2015, the Australian Trade Union movement signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Federal Republic…
St Luke’s Uniting Church, Mt Waverley: Giving thanks for West Papua’s success at the Melanesian Spearhead Group and Pacific Islands Forum
At the 9.30am service on Sunday 20 September 2015, the Congregation of St Luke’s Uniting Church, led by Rev. James Douglas, is prayerfully reflecting on West Papua’s recent success with the Melanesian Spearhead Group in Honiara (Solomon Islands) and the…
Australia’s top universities debate West Papua sovereignty, 2016
On 8 December 2016, six students from Melbourne, Monash and Deakin Universities debated West Papua’s status as an independent state. The exhibition debate was hosted by the Federal Republic of West Papua (FRWP) in the Australia Catholic University during the Sampari…
Declaration of 3rd Papuan People’s Congress, October 2011
Declaration, 3rd Peoples Congress, 19 October 2011 (6min video) With English subtitles by Traverser 11 https://vimeo.com/32762278 Declaration read by President Forkorus Yaboisembut at the conclusion of the 3rd Papuan People’s Congress in Zaccheus Field, Abepura (West Papua) on 19 October…
Professor Paul James, George Mason University, 2010
George Mason University, 9 November 2010 Democracy and Human Rights in Asia and the Pacific: The Washington Solution convened by Professor Lester Kurtz, and Herman Wainggai from the West Papua National Authority. Professor Paul James (video, 35min) http://youtu.be/OqXVvM8So4c Summary Paul…
Jacob Rumbiak on the Washington Solution
Jacob Rumbiak’s address to ‘Democracy and Human Rights in Asia and the Pacific: The Washington Solution’ a conference at George Mason University on 9 November 2010; convened by Professor Lester Kurtz (George Mason University) and Mr Herman Wainggai (West Papua…
3rd Papuan Congress, Zaccheus Field, Abepura, Oct 2011
A documentary roundup of the Third Papuan People’s Congress, which was attended by 5,000 academics, tribal and religious leaders, activists and students, and villagers from across the territory. During the congress, the Federal Republic of West Papua was launched and…
Interview, President Yaboisembut, Abepura Prison, Dec 2013
Australian activist Izzy Brown managed to secretly interview FRWP President Forkorus Yaboisembut in a church next to the Abepura Prison in West Papua where he was incarcerated after the 2011 Congress in Sentani, West Papua. Interview with President Yaboisembut, Abepura…
Interview, FRWP Prime Minister, Abepura Prison, Dec 2013
Australian activist Izzy Brown managed to secretly interview FRWP Prime Minister Edison Waromi in a church next to the Abepura Prison in West Papua where he has been incarcerated since the 2011 Congress in…
Uncle Larry Walsh welcomes new WP office, June 2014
Aboriginal Elder, Uncle Larry Walsh, a Taunwurrung man of the Kulin Nation, welcomed guests to the launch of the West Papua office in Docklands on 14 June 2014. Uncle Larry was one of a number of prominent speakers at the…
Old song, New singer. Will Jokowi let West Papua go?
MEDIA RELEASE, 30 JULY 2014 Old song, New singer: will Jokowi liberate West Papua? During his two terms, outgoing Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono maintained the status quo with West Papua. West Papuans are hoping president-elect Widodo’s reign will be different.…
West Papua and the Melanesian Spearhead Group since 2000
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) is an intergovernmental sub-regional forum set up in 1988 by Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea to spearhead regional interests of common interest, including the political independence of West Papua and the Kanak in…
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