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Indonesian regime forced indigenous leaders to sign away land

lundi 2 septembre 2013 à 14:00

The Indonesian regime forced indigenous leaders in West Papua to sign away land to a large agribusiness, threatening to label them as "separatists" and punish them otherwise.

I don't know whether they are separatists, but they have every right to be. The inhabitants of West Papua have no cultural or historical relationship with Indonesia, which took over the region by force. Subsequently it sent large numbers of Javanese to colonize the area.