News on West Papua's human rights and conflict situation:

• Devastating health conditions in the regencies Asmat and Pegunungan Bintang - epidemic outbreaks and malnutrition reveal government failures
• LIPI survey elucidates difference in perception regarding situation in West Papua
• Papuan students outside of West Papua face systematic harassment
• Army officer insults Filep Karma during interrogation at Cengkarang Airport
• Freedom of assembly under threat - Security forces prevent commemoration of international human rights day in Dogiyai Regency
• Papuan central highlands remain human rights hot spot - security force members torture group of indigenous Papuans
• Military members torture Papuan man to death - Asian Human Rights Commission launches urgent appeal
• BBC journalist has to leave Papua because her tweets hurt "feelings of the Indonesian military"
• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights visits Indonesia
• Parliament members in the Netherlands concerned about situation of indigenous Peoples in West Papua
• Indigenous woman shot dead in Timika - seven mobile police brigade members under investigation

Reformatorisch Dagblad
https://www.rd.nl/vandaag/buitenland/straffeloosheid-in-papoea-geeft-politie-en-leger-er-de-vrije-hand-1.1469372

Ab Jansen,22 februari 2018

Massale arrestaties, marteling en intimidaties. Het is de praktijk in de Indonesische provincie Papoea, maar vrijwel onbekend.

Op 8 februari liet de Tweede Kamer aan toenmalig minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Zijlstra weten bezorgd te zijn over de onderdrukking van de Papoeabevolking in Indonesië. De SGP stelde met steun van acht andere partijen vragen aan de minister. Vooral de mensenrechtenschendingen door leger en politie en het gebrek aan persvrijheid in de regio baarden de Kamer zorgen.