#papouasie

Up to seven dead in West Papua as protest turns violent | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/29/west-papua-deaths-as-protest-turns-violent
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A source at one protest in the Deiyai Regency told The Guardian on Thursday that police had fired lived rounds into a crowd of demonstrators outside the regency offices on Wednesday. Six people were killed and two seriously injured, the source, who requested anonymity fearing reprisals, said. “Shots were fired at the protesters, but people continued to sit in protest,” the source added.

Al Jazeera also reported that six protesters had been killed.

#Papouasie #Indonésie

Dozens wounded, detained in West Papua crackdown: Witnesses | Indonesia News | Al Jazeera
▻https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/dozens-wounded-detained-west-papua-crackdown-witnesses-190824054023914.ht

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Jakarta, Indonesia - Several demonstrators have been injured and dozens detained as Indonesian authorities crack down on separatist protests in the West Papua region, according to witnesses, but the police strongly deny anyone was wounded.

A family member of one of the injured protesters, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, confirmed to Al Jazeera on Friday that a relative was injured during the protests in Fakfak Regency, West Papua province.

Rights groups Amnesty International Indonesia and Human Rights Watch also confirmed to Al Jazeera that there were several reports of injuries in Fakfak.

#Papouasie #manifestation #violences_policières

West Papua: thousands take to streets after week of violence | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/26/west-papua-thousands-expected-at-fresh-protests-after-week-of-violence

An Indonesian government clampdown on the internet in the region has continued. A spokesperson for the Papua police, Ahmad Kamal, told the Guardian that internet services would continue to be limited for another week to prevent the spread of “fake news”.

When protests erupted in Jayapura last Monday, the government slowed internet speeds. Data services were cut completely by Wednesday.
Why are there violent clashes in Papua and West Papua?
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Markus Haluk, from the United Movement for the Liberation of West Papua, said the internet shutdown was “part of the military operation because the Indonesian military always finds a way to isolate Papua and stop Papuan voices being shared with the world”.

Local journalists have decried the blackout, saying it has made it increasingly difficult to verify information in the field at a critical time, while thousands signed a petition calling for services to be restored.

#Papouasie #manifestations #internet #censure #Indonésie #racisme #discrimination

Traités de « singes », les Papous se soulèvent et érigent l’animal en symbole révolutionnaire
▻https://observers.france24.com/fr/20190821-indonesie-papouasie-papous-manifestations-singes-symbol

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Une vague de #manifestations violentes secoue actuellement la #Papouasie, une région d’#Indonésie où le peuple #papou réclame depuis plusieurs dizaines d’années son #indépendance. Ce regain de tensions fait suite à un incident devant un dortoir d’étudiants papous, traités de « #singes » par des militaires et des civils. Depuis, cet animal est devenu le symbole du mouvement protestataire.

Lundi 19 août, dans la matinée, des manifestants se sont réunis dans les capitales administratives des provinces de #Papouasie et #Papouasie_occidentale, #Jayapura et #Manokwari. Dans la première, plusieurs milliers de personnes ont défilé pacifiquement, d’après des habitants contactés par la rédaction des Observateurs de France 24, tandis que la situation a été plus tendue à Manokwari, où un journaliste de l’Agence France-Presse a dénombré plusieurs milliers de manifestants.

#racisme #discrimination #exploitation

How land grabbers co-opt indigenous ritual traditions in Papua: Q&A with anthropologist Sophie Chao
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/how-land-grabbers-co-opt-indigenous-ritual-traditions-in-papua-qa-with-anthropologist-sophie-chao/?n3wsletter

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Industrial-scale agriculture poses considerable risk to the indigenous peoples of Papua, whose culture and livelihoods are closely linked to the region’s extensive rainforest.
Last November, Mongabay and The Gecko Project published an investigative article exposing the murky dealings underpinning a mega-plantation project in Papua, as part of our series Indonesia for Sale.
Anthropologist Sophie Chao has studied the often fraught relationship between Papuans and plantation firms, and the mechanisms through which indigenous people are compelled to give up their land.

#papouasie_nouvelle_guinée #peuples_autochtones #terres #industrie_palmiste

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A MAJOR LIABILITY: Illegal logging in Papua New Guinea threatens China’s timber sector and global reputation | Global Witness
▻https://www.globalwitness.org/en-gb/campaigns/forests/major-liability-illegal-logging-papua-new-guinea-threatens-chinas-tim

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In 2016, PNG provided 29% of China’s tropical log imports, making it the country’s single largest supplier. But our investigation reveals how a large number of logging operations in Papua New Guinea (#PNG) violate the law despite holding government-issued permits.

China is the world’s largest consumer and manufacturer of wood and wood products. Yet it has no regulation to keep illegal timber from entering its borders.

#Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée #bois #forêt #déforestation

ExxonMobil gas project a disaster for Papua New Guinea’s people - World Socialist Web Site

▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/04/pngp-m04.html

ExxonMobil gas project a disaster for Papua New Guinea’s people
By John Braddock
4 May 2018

The massive $US19 billion ExxonMobil-led liquid natural gas (LNG) project in the Hela region of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has failed to deliver a promised economic boom for the country, a non-government organisation report has found.

#papouasie_nouvelle_guinée #énergie #gaz #résistance #pollution #environnement

South Korean company under fire for alleged deforestation in Papua oil palm concession
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/south-korean-company-under-fire-for-alleged-deforestation-in-papua-oi

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A report by WRI shows ongoing deforestation in an oil palm concession in Papua, Indonesia, operated by a subsidiary of South Korea’s POSCO Daewoo.
The company has responded by saying its operations in Papua are legal and fully permitted.
Concerns over deforestation by POSCO Daewoo have prompted other companies to say they will not allow its palm oil into their supply chains. These include big-name brands such as Clorox, Colgate Palmolive, IKEA, L’Oreal, Mars and Unilever.
POSCO Daewoo has issued a temporary moratorium on land clearing in its Papua concession and hired a consultant to advise it on how to proceed with its operations there.

#industrie_palmiste #Papouasie #déforestation

Timika - Mon blog sur l’écologie politique
▻http://blog.ecologie-politique.eu/post/Timika
par Aude Vidal

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« Western papou », prévient la couverture. #Timika, cette ville de #Papouasie_occidentale située dans les environs de la plus grande mine d’or du monde, a en effet des airs de ville-frontière pourrie par la corruption, le fric de l’or qui ruisselle tant bien que mal, pourrie enfin par cette guerre méconnue que l’#Indonésie mène contre les Papous. Si aujourd’hui ce grand archipel épouse parfaitement les frontières des Indes néerlandaises, une création coloniale, cela n’a rien d’une évidence car la #Nouvelle_Guinée est une île peuplée de Papous, peuple mélanésien et chrétien. Sa partie occidentale a été rattachée de force à l’Indonésie dans les années 1960, suite à une annexion forcée et à un référendum sous contrôle, avec la complaisance de la communauté internationale. Jakarta mène depuis lors une guerre pour garder le territoire dans son giron. Car, qu’il s’agisse de bois ou de métaux, l’île est aussi riche en #matières_premières que ses habitant·es sont pauvres.

#livre

In Indonesian Papua, Dozens of Children Have Died From Measles and Chickenpox While Awaiting Medical Care · Global Voices
▻https://globalvoices.org/2018/01/23/in-indonesian-papua-dozens-of-children-have-died-from-measles-and-chic

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In the remote Indonesian region of Papua, a series of measles and chickenpox outbreaks have killed 69 toddlers and left hundreds of people hospitalized since September 2017.

The diseases have begun to spread to other regions, making some fear the total toll could breach 100. This week, the Indonesian government has sent the military to Papua to try to control the outbreak.

#indonésie #papouasie #santé #enfants

Balancing Development and Forest Protection in Papua « Global Forest Watch
▻http://blog.globalforestwatch.org/supplychain/balancing-development-and-forest-protection-in-papua.html

While oil palm expansion brings the promise of economic growth, its impacts include irreparable deforestation and health crises caused by forest and land fires. For long-term economic development to be beneficial to Papua and West Papua, Indonesia must figure out how to move forward without depleting the environmental resources and ecosystem services that are vital to the livelihoods and well-being of local communities.

Papua and West Papua share the island of New Guinea with the nation of Papua New Guinea, which occupies the eastern half. The island is home to the spectacular birds of paradise and the third-largest expanse of rainforest in the world. Papua and West Papua alone hold about one-third of Indonesia’s remaining rainforest. As Indonesia’s agricultural sector—the country’s main economic driver—continues to grow, the associated deforestation is rapidly moving east and threatening these last remaining forests. In 2015, Papua experienced its highest forest cover loss yet.

#Papouasie #Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée #déforestation #industrie_palmiste

Refugees on Manus Island face catastrophe at hands of Australian detention regime - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/11/01/refu-n01.html

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Refugees on #Manus_Island face catastrophe at hands of Australian detention regime
By Oscar Grenfell
1 November 2017

About 600 refugees still held at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are facing a humanitarian disaster, and possible police-military violence, after the Australian government moved to shut down the facility yesterday.

Contractors employed by the Australian government cut pipes, emptied water tanks, cut off electricity supplies and removed generators, before leaving the centre on Tuesday. Asylum seekers have been left without food, only minimal water, and no security. Heavily-armed PNG police and troops are massed outside the complex, warning they will enter it today unless the refugees leave.

#réfugiés #camps #encampement #australie #papouasie_nouvelle_guinée

Meet the S. Korean Companies Destroying Indonesia’s Virgin Rainforest | KOREA EXPOSÉ
▻https://koreaexpose.com/south-korean-companies-destroying-indonesia-virgin-rainforest

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Today, one of the world’s last major untouched rainforests is being cut down, burned and erased forever by some of South Korea’s biggest companies. These firms are playing a leading role in destroying West Papua’s unique ecosystem while polishing fraudulent green credentials at home.

Subsidiaries of prominent South Korea’s chaebol (family-run conglomerates) including POSCO and Samsung, plus South Korean-owned Indonesian conglomerate Korindo Group, have been cutting down primary forest to make way for oil palm plantations, abusing the rights and livelihoods of local people and, in some cases, burning felled timber to clear rainforest land — a practice illegal under Indonesian law.

More disturbingly, the activities of these companies receive little negative coverage in the South Korean media, where the companies are often praised for their commercial success. The corporations involved apply liberal doses of greenwash to gloss over their environmental malfeasance.

#Indonésie #Papouasie #forêt #déforestation #incendies #industrie_palmiste #biodiversité #cartographie #terres #pollution #travail_des_enfants #exploitation #peuples_autochtones #eau

Papua New Guinea soldiers attack refugees in Australian-run prison camp - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/18/refu-a18.html

Papua New Guinea soldiers attack refugees in Australian-run prison camp
By Max Newman
18 April 2017

Escalating tensions at the Australian refugee detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Manus Island erupted last Friday when armed soldiers fired shots into the camp and assaulted detainees. Videos posted on-line showed terrified asylum seekers seeking shelter as gunfire peppered the centre.

Eye-witness accounts indicate that a vehicle rammed the entrance gates, and rocks were thrown at refugees. Anxious to whitewash the assault, the Australian government continues to claim that only a single shot was fired, into the air, despite photos and videos showing multiple bullet holes.

#réfugiés #asile #migrations #australie #papouasie_mouvelle_guinée #océanie

ARTE+7 | Frères des arbres - L’appel d’un chef papou
▻http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/067793-000-A/freres-des-arbres

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Originaire des Hautes-Terres en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Mundiya Kepanga, chef de la tribu des Hulis, vit dans l’une des dernières forêts primaires de la planète. Elle abrite des espèces de plantes, d’arbres, d’insectes et d’oiseaux qui n’existent nulle part ailleurs. Sous l’effet de la déforestation, cet écosystème unique au monde est aujourd’hui menacé de disparition. Afin d’alerter l’opinion sur cette situation préoccupante, Mundiya partage, avec ses mots, son histoire et celle de sa forêt.

#forêt #forêt_primaire #déforestation #développement #pillage #Papouasie_Nelle_Guinée #terres #industrie_palmiste

Korindo Melanggar Moratorium Menghentikan Deforestasi di Papua | Yayasan Pusaka
▻http://pusaka.or.id/korindo-melanggar-moratorium-menghentikan-deforestasi-di-papua

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Je ne comprends pas mais je garde :)

Foto-foto satelit dari 13 Januari dan 10 Februari 2017 menunjukkan pembukaan lahan baru di kawasan konsesi PT Papua Agro Lestari (PT PAL) milik perusahaan kelapa sawit raksasa Korindo. Foto itu menunjukkan bahwa Korindo sedang mempersiapkan pembukaan hutan seluas 2.400 hektar di Papua. Padahal Korindo sudah mengumumkan kebijakan moratorium atas pengembangan lahan baru untuk seluruh operasi kelapa sawitnya pada 10 November 2016. Pembukaan lahan baru ini merupakan wujud pelanggaran.

Moratorium itu diumumkan sebagai tanggapan atas investigasi Burning Paradise (Surga yang Terbakar) yang dirilis oleh Mighty Earth, PUSAKA, SKP-KAME Merauke, serta LSM Korea dan internasional pada September 2016. Laporan itu mengungkapkan bagaimana perusahaan agribisnis Korea Indonesia, Korindo, harus bertanggung jawab atas terjadinya deforestasi lahan seluas kurang lebih 30.000 hektar dan hampir 900 kasus kebakaran ilegal di konsesi kelapa sawitnya di Papua sejak 2013.

#déforestation #forêt #Indonésie #Papouasie #terre #moratoire #cartographie

Illegal Logging in Papua New Guinea: Taking On the Logging Pirates | The Oakland Institute
▻https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/illegal-logging-papua-new-guinea-speak-out-palm-oil-corruption

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A landmark report from the Oakland Institute, Taking On the Logging Pirates: Land Defenders in Papua New Guinea Speak Out! elevates the voices of communities across the country who are opposing the theft of their land, made possible by the corrupt practices of local officials and foreign companies.

In recent years, Special Agriculture and Business Leases (SABLs)—a government scheme—has been instrumental in fueling land grabs all over the country, with over 5.5 million hectares given away to foreign companies. Considering the pre-existing logging concessions, now over 15 million hectares—more than one third of the country—are in the hands of foreign firms

Taking On the Logging Pirates follows two previous reports and a film by the Oakland Institute, that have documented land grabbing and widespread tax evasion by a handful of Malaysian firms, including the multi-industry conglomerate Rimbunan Hijau.

#Papouasie_Nouvelle_Guinée #bois #forêt #déforestation #terres

Papuans still unhappy over Merauke food and oil palm project | Radio New Zealand News
▻http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/323368/papuans-still-unhappy-over-merauke-food-and-oil-palm-project

Jakarta has thrown high level support behind the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate, or MIFEE, a project in the far south east of Papua province

Eventually expected to cover 1.6 million hectares, MIFEE has attracted dozens of investors, looking to grow food crops and palm oil.

Billed as a project to address food security concerns for parts of the country, local Papuan communities have complained that MIFEE is alienating them from their land.

A member of the video-based advocacy organisation Papuan Voices, Wensi Fatubun, said young Papuans in Merauke have begun using video to convey their opposition.

“We try to empower the community to do how they can protect their own land, their own rights, from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate project.”

However, the government said MIFEE was aimed at helping create improved living standards for Papuan communities.

#Indonésie #Papouasie #terres #industrie_palmiste #développement

Broken Men in Paradise, by Roger Cohen - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/opinion/sunday/australia-refugee-prisons-manus-island.html

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“The Australians argue about us and two elections were won fighting about our situation. ‘Don’t let in the boat people,’ they say, or ‘say yes to the boat people,’ but in the end, we’re just tools. No one really cares about us.”

#reportage #réfugiés #Australie #Papouasie #photographie

Complaint against a palm oil company in Papua held in limbo by RSPO
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2016/11/complaint-against-a-palm-oil-company-in-papua-held-in-limbo-by-rspo

A complaint lodged earlier this year about alleged abuses by a palm oil company in Indonesian Papua has raised questions over the credibility of the industry’s largest certification scheme in investigating member violations.

In April, indigenous rights NGO Pusaka wrote to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (#RSPO) with detailed allegations that PT Nabire Baru — a subsidiary of Goodhope Asia, which is owned by Sri Lankan palm oil giant Carson Cumberbatch — had violated “both legal regulations and the customary law” of the Yerisiam Gua people, as well as the RSPO’s own principles and criteria, which ban unsustainable practices like the conversion of virgin rainforests and land grabbing that aren’t necessarily illegal in countries where palm oil is produced.

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#industrie_palmiste #terres #peuples_autochtones #indonésie
Central to the complaint were claims that Nabire Baru took communal land belonging to the indigenous group in Papua’s Nabire district without a collective decisionmaking process.

Les Papous gagnent une bataille contre les forestiers
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2016/09/28/les-papous-gagnent-une-bataille-contre-les-forestiers_5004803_3244.html

Des communautés de #Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ont remporté leur première bataille : elles vont pouvoir récupérer leurs #terres après la décision de la Cour suprême d’invalider des baux très controversés accordés à des entreprises étrangères. Environ un tiers de ce pays, situé entre l’Indonésie et l’Australie, est entre les mains d’intérêts étrangers, principalement des compagnies d’#exploitation_forestière, selon l’ONG Oakland Institute, basée aux Etats-Unis.

#forêt #paywall

Refugee camp company in Australia ’liable for crimes against humanity’

The company that has taken over the management of Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime has been warned by international law experts that its employees could be liable for crimes against humanity.

Spanish infrastructure corporation #Ferrovial, which is owned by one of the world’s richest families and the major stakeholder in Heathrow airport, has been warned by professors at Stanford Law School that its directors and employees risk prosecution under international law for supplying services to Australia’s camps on #Nauru and #Manus_Island in Papua New Guinea.

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Yerisiam Gua people of Papua face down land grabs and intimidation by palm oil company | Forest Peoples Programme
▻http://www.forestpeoples.org/topics/palm-oil-rspo/news/2016/04/yerisiam-gua-people-papua-face-down-land-grabs-and-intimidation-pa

The Yerisiam Gua, an indigenous people in Nabire district in Indonesian Papua have filed a complaint with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil against the palm oil developer, PT Nabire Baru. Despite being a subsidiary of an RSPO member, the company has been taking over and clearing community lands without the community’ agreement and despite repeated appeals by the community to the company and local government to halt the development.

#industrie_palmiste #Papouasie #Indonésie #terres #droits_humains #forêt #déforestation

L’atlas de l’huile de palme en Papouasie occidentale : les entreprises derrière le boom des plantations d’huile de palme
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/25414-latlas-de-lhuile-de-palme-en-papouasie-occidentale-les-entrepris

L’#atlas de l’#huile_de_palme en #Papouasie_occidentale : les entreprises derrière le boom des plantations d’huile de palme

Au cours des dernières décennies, le secteur indonésien de l’huile de palme a connu une croissance rapide mais la grande majorité de cette expansion a été concentrée sur les îles de Bornéo et Sumatra. Comme il devient de plus en plus difficile de trouver de grandes étendues de terres dans ces régions, les sociétés de plantations de palmiers à huile s’intéressent désormais à l’archipel des Moluques et en particulier à la Papouasie occidentale, une région déchirée par les conflits. Alors qu’en 2005, seulement cinq sociétés de plantations de palmiers à huile étaient actives en Papouasie occidentale, à la fin 2014 on en dénombrait déjà 21. Cette expansion rapide devrait se poursuivre dans la mesure où beaucoup d’autres entreprises ont déjà obtenu un permis d’implantation initial. Si toutes ces plantations étaient développées, plus de 2,6 millions d’hectares de terres seraient utilisées, dont la majorité sont actuellement des forêts tropicales qui abritent un grand nombre de groupes de populations autochtones. AwasMIFEE, Pusaka et six autres organisations ont récemment publié « L’atlas de l’huile de palme en Papouasie occidentale » afin de briser l’isolement de cette région, dans un contexte où les communautés qui choisissent de s’opposer aux sociétés de plantations se sentent souvent intimidées par les forces de sécurité de l’État qui soutiennent les entreprises.

#terres #agro-industrie #cartographie
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A life in limbo: the refugees who fled torture only to end up trapped indefinitely on Manus

It’s 766 days since Papua New Guinea agreed to resettle refugees from Australia’s detention centre on Manus Island. So far, not a single one has been resettled, but 41 have been moved to quasi-detention in a ‘transit centre’. They have no idea if they will leave it, they tell Guardian Australia

▻http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/04/a-life-in-limbo-the-refugees-who-fled-torture-only-to-end-up-trapped-in
#Papouasie_Nouvelle-Guinée #asile #migrations #réfugiés #externalisation #Manus_island #Australie