Irian Jaya: Human Rights, Corporate Wrongs - Indonesia

July 1998
Suharto may be gone, but the Indonesian military continues human rights abuses in defence of international mining interests.

Despite banning journalists from sensitive areas the evidence of a reign of terror over indigenous Irian Jayans is mounting. A man from the area near the Freeport gold mine shows his wounds following a terrifying retreat from gunfire after he strayed from his village. His is not the only case. Human rights activist John Rumbiak reports the burning of Amungme homes and churches and alleges a devastating decision to refuse Austrialian aid into drought-stricken areas around the mine. Military hostility is compunded by prejudice - "When they look at these Melanesians they have fuzzy hair, they wear penis gourds...they look at them as inferior...there is this kind of feeling among the soldiers to kill the people." The prevailing suspicion is that the atrocities are not to suppress the rag-tag Free Papua independence movement, rather they are an excuse to drive people from their land to free it for commercial exploitation. Can Indonesia hold on to the resource-rich Irian Jaya without more brutal suppression of its local tribes people?

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[saintandrews83]

aussies are scared to do anything so as to not loose ties with the yellow monkeys

[saintandrews83]

Obama, help these people from the Indo's

[unromances]

@bittersweetworld89 who are u , siapa kau? kamu orang mana> ? mengatas namakan orang indonesia? jika kalian ingin mengambil papua... silahkan akan tetapi I guarantee that the blood will flow more

[unromances]

another propaganda from west to invasion some country, but why media never mention aborigines in australian

their human rights are also deprived, because the island of Papua has a great energy source in want you

[THENVPB77]

@TisWeDaPeople

Shame that 2 years later theres no change!

Ill do me best here to wake up people about it!

Really, Nel B

[Pegzone]

If I had the money I would pay 300 Russian Spetnaz to train OPM to behead Kopassus and Australian mining CEO's. Dirty Indonesia military.

[mykole84]

@seanandrew01. yeah but indonesia govt is trying to systemically make papuans irrelevant in thier homeland. papuans r not like the rest of indonesia & have never wanted to be. they flooded it with non-papuans. its not right. papuans r discriminate against in their own homeland.

[rukawa037]

yes, u're right

they killed our flesh and blood, they raped our woman, they burned our young man without any reason

where is the human rights?

they humiliate chinese people here

i wish china help us and evacuate us then nuke them to the dust

hate to be indonesian-chinese

[bittersweetworld89]

please seperate us from indonesia.. USA Australia China please help us....

seperate Papua from indonesia

seperate maluku from indonesia

seperate aceh from indonesia

seperate ambon from indonesia

Like u help timor timor seperate from indonesia..

and also seperate kalimantan for the chinese live in indonesia.....

[316396638]

why the children from china been killed!!!why women from china been raped!!

why people from china been burned!!

Are they all criminal???!!!

why indonesia so cruel !!!

fuck indonesian！！You bastard! Indonesian stupid jerk! Shameless！indoesian is imbecile and psycho!indoesian is bitch and jackass!mother-fucker !!!!!!(sorry another countrys' people,I can't stick it any more.)