West Papua documentary (Part 3) - incl. Kelly Kwalik footage

THE AUSTRALIAN AND INDONESIAN GOVERNMENTS DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE THIS DOCUMENTARY

This is part 3 of an excellent and rare TV documentary about West Papua. A year on from its original UK screening it still has not been broadcast in any other country.

In 2006 reporter Evan Williams gained access, on a tourist visa, to West Papua - a country to which journalists and foreign observers are flatly refused entry by the Indonesian government. After three weeks dodging Indonesian officials and police to gather interviews and information, he filed this report for Channel 4's "Unreported World" series about a people on the brink of eradication.

Part 3 (7'46"):

• Evan Williams travels by air with members of the outlawed Free Papua Movement (OPM) to a remote highland location. Here he meets grieving but defiant women recently widowed by the Indonesian forces who have set up camp near their village.

• An interview with OPM leader Kelly Kwalik, one of the most wanted men in West Papua. His message is clear: he opposes the Indonesian forces which steal the land and resources from his people. Kwalik explains his reasons for taking foreign hostages.

• OPM members gather as a show of strength. Some have travelled for a week. Many have not seen each other in years. They sing traditional songs and raise the Morning Star flag - both activities are outlawed by the Indonesian government.

(Originally broadcast Channel 4, October 20 2006, 7.35pm)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• kelly
• kwalik
• west
• papua
• indonesia
• freeport
• jayapura
• opm
• wanema
• suppressed
• banned

[auspete]

Ignorant comments by the Japanese person have been removed.

[JapaneseCutiePie2]

why censor me just because you disagree? what i said was valid and fair.

[auspete]

The comments were ignorant and racist.

[EliteBusJr]

For you to talk flat face bitch, IQ's don't determine anything, It's simply a man made test, i can come up with a test that only i can figure out leaving me the smartest person in the world, besides these Papuans know more about the jungle then you, Lets throw your chink ass in the jungle and see how long you fend for.

[Mohi]

dats not true what the japanese girls said... The ones who represented Indonesia and became the champion for the Math Olympian last year was from West papua . he is a black. suprise isn't it ?? .. You say they have no IQ ??? seriously i think you betetr made an IQ test by comparing the IQs of the TNI Indoensian soldiers with the typical native papuan... I bet the papuans have more IQ... seriously

[Andrew19ao]

Why does every place in the world have to be stripped of its resources? There should be huge areas of LAND without any human impact (except tribes).

[jonjhoni]

@trentlawrence87 FUCK U AUSSIE

[Lukeschedel]

4:59 OMG looks at his face! =o

[nix831]

who CARES if there is violent or not in the first place (though, those who say there isnt....are you that blind? can you really, really, really not see the human rights abuses and midless, greed-fueled killings?)

the main point, is that....this west PAPUA for goodness sake.

NOT east INDONESIA.

its their land, give it back. you have no stake or honest claim to this land.

stop being children, indonesia. seriously. get over yourselves.

[dohoho100]

we have try to explain everything to them. but i think words seem have no effect to them. but i also do not agree with the violence either. i think is a long way to go for us to be working together well.

but there are also skilled or/and educated Papuans working with us. but usually they're not coming from the exploration field, they're coming from cities around Papua.

[dohoho100]

the local crews (recruited from the exploration field), they think they can work whenever they want, but they still can get a full month salary. right after they receive their salary,most of them will use their money for gamble and drink. and of course they will not show up for working. we did reclamation in the drill and camp location. but they destroy the reclamation area and ask for money instead of reclamation, even actually we have paid them for the reclamation we did.

[dohoho100]

why they still use Indonesian language for the command?? btw i'm doing gold-copper exploration in Papua remote areas, it's been almost a year now. and we never did the violence things here. yes i consider my self as a comer in the exploration field. some local people from the exploration field work with us, even if they have no skill at all. we trained them the basic skills to be our helper. they sometimes (actually most of the time,depend on what tribe you work with) are very difficult.

[christajuli]

@H1MLA There are other black ethnic groups in Indonesia, such as Maluku, and people in East Nusa Tenggara (Flores people). The western part of New Guinea, which is Papua, was once the part of Dutch Colonialism, just like the other provinces in Indonesia. In 1969 Papua was called "Irian", but in 2002 the native people changed the name into Papua, because the word Irian stands for Indonesian acronym, which means "join indonesia, reject netherland"

[praga1234567890]

it is shocking how little the world dose to help people in situations like this, money money money is repeated over and over, it should be used to free west papua and then american corporations can make buisniss with the people who deserve it.

i dont know much about the vote but sounds like to me that it was a set up and a scamm and excuse for genocide.

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