West Papua Open Day : Sunday 19 Oct 2014 : 2-4pm
Celebrating the 3rd birthday of the Federal Republic of West Papua
Guest Speaker: Rev. Robert Stringer, Retired Clergy Uniting Church
West Papua Office, 838 Collins St, Docklands 3008, Victoria
Federal Republic of West Papua
On 19 October 2011, five-thousand academics, politicians, church leaders, and senior tribal leaders established the FRWP during the 3rd Papua Congress. The Indonesian government immediately charged newly elected President Forkorus Yaboisembut and Prime Minister Edison Waromi, as well as three organizers of the Congress, with subversion, and they were incarcerated for three years. In August 2014, they were released from prison and are currently building a political house for the carriage of the nation’s tribal, traditional, and modern ways of thinking and being.
