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Displaced and Disempowered: Military expansionism at the cost of civilian lives

This report asks several questions about the spread of conflict in West Papua. The report also identifies the drivers of militarisation including increasing numbers of security force posts and bases allowing access to business opportunities, a deepening military role in ‘counter-terror’ operations, and looks at recent initiatives to stop conflict.

2025 West Papua Freedom of Expression and Assembly Full Report

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Prabowo has been in power as President of Indonesia since October 2024, and the marks of his regime have been increasingly felt across civil society. The atmosphere has turned colder, with greater power going to the security services, a tightening of laws that criminalise dissent, a return of New Order-esque policies, and a sense that the civil rights fought for during the period known as Reformasi are being eroded away.

TAPOL September-November Quarterly Update

West Papua 2024 Freedom of Expression and Assembly Full Report

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Briefing Paper: Political arrests in West Papua from 2012–2014

This briefing paper provides an analytical overview of data on political arrests in West Papua from 2012 to 2014. It includes analysis of emerging trends in human rights violations associated with these political arrests.

West Papua 2023 Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Assembly Full Report

TAPOL’s Submission to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on West Papua

The Indonesian government grants very limited access to West Papua for international human rights observers and has shown little tolerance for freedom of expression. International funding agencies, which are obliged to register with the central government, are not allowed to provide financial support freely to West Papuan NGOs, in particular those which work on human rights issues.

West Papua 2022 Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Assembly Full Report

West Papua in 2022 has seen increasing clampdowns on freedom of assembly and expression, including increasing arrests, clamping down on demonstrations, and the harassment or worse of people seeking to uphold and defend rights, particularly human right defenders and the media.

The Military's Role in Food Estate Plans

This second report will focus more on one particularly troubling aspect of the Food Estate project – the role that the military and Ministry of Defence (MoD) have assumed in the management of Food Estates. Again, although the MoD’s Food Estate plans have national scope, the analysis will concentrate on West Papua, which is already the most militarised part of Indonesia.

West Papua 2021 Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Assembly Full Report

Criminalisation, collusion and broken promises have been the main issues in regard to the state of freedom of expression and assembly in and related to West Papua in 2021. After an unusual year affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns across the world, there has been renewed pressure from the Indonesian government which has criminalised, imprisoned and intimidated activists who have spoken out on West Papua-related issues, with increasing numbers of arrests and increasing incidents of police and militias acting together.

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