Full version of the critically acclaimed documentary Land of the Morning Star. Made by Australian journalist Mark Worth, the film features rare archival film and eyewitness accounts. Worth spent much of his journalistic career reporting on the region before his sudden death in ...
Denmark's a prison... A goodly one, in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons..." Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 I am outside not because I was freed from prison. This is still prison. Indonesia is prison. -Filep Karma, Interview with BBC (translated by Zashna ...
ALKINEMOKIYE (FROM STRUGGLE DAWNS NEW HOPE): September 15, 2011 . 8,000 of the 22,000 Freeport Indonesia workers went on strike, demanding a wage increase from US$ 3.5 to US$ 7.5 an hour. It was the longest and most widely participated worker strike since began operations in Indo ...
This film shows the extremely brutal history the native population of West Papua have endured for many decades under the oppressive Indonesian Military. How, to this day, they continue to struggle for independence from Indonesia, with historical pieces showing the UN Shame vote: A ...
Kobe Oser, Ben Kaisiepo and the West Papua Liberation Organization (WPLO), with the support of the World Church Council (WCC) and the United Nations, were able to establish an office in the United Nations Plaza Building 777 in downtown Manhattan. The office is shared with th ...
Private security personnel employed by the world’s largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold, have been implicated in alleged gang rapes and other violent abuses in Papua New Guinea. Barrick maintains a private security force of nearly 450 personnel at Porgera. The mine must cop ...
An ABC Four Corners report about the 'Red Cross' involvement in the WWF hostages saga in 1996 and the resulting slaughter of the indigenous peoples of West Papua! Deep in the rainforests of West Papua a story is emerging of a brutal massacre of the innocent native peoples of West ...
West Papuan freedom fighter, Filep Karma, has been in prison since 2004 for raising the Morning Star flag at a political rally. He was charged with "treason" and given a sentence of 15 years. Last week, the Indonesian government offered to release him on Indonesia's independence da ...
Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice. The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens’ charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal – allegations documented in Hitchens’ book of the same ...
"Melanesia is not free until West Papua is free." -Walter Lini, First Prime Minister of Vanuatu It has been a momentous week for supporters of West Papuan independence. The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), on behalf of the battered Indonesian province of West Pa ...