a guerra na Papua

In 1963, General Ali Moertopo said the Papuan people should be transferred to the moon.

In 2016, General Luhut Panjaitan said the Papuans should be transferred to the Pacific.

In 2019, Papuan students were called ‘Monkeys’ and told to ‘go home’.

In 2021, General Hendropriyono said 2 million Papuans should be transferred to Manado.

In the eyes of the Indonesian government, Papuans are subhuman and therefore do not deserve to be treated with dignity. General Hendropriyono is a retired Kopassus general and former head of the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency. He plans to remove 2 million Papuans from their own land and sepeate them from their Melanesian family particulary their Papua New Guinean brothers and sisters as stated in this interview.

This IS racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing. We will not be treated as second class citizen in our own motherland. Last year on 1st December we declared The Provisional government of West Papua, seperate from The Indonesian Government. By doing this we reclaim our sovereignty and our dignity as Melanesian people. We are ready to take back our country from racist colonialist Indonesia.

Enough is enough! We will no longer bow down to Indonesian rule. I am calling my people to unite under the new provisional government.

Benny Wenda

Interim President

Provisional Government of West Papua