This is an excellent and rare TV documentary about West Papua. A year on from its original UK screening it still has not been broadcast in any other country.
In 2006 reporter Evan Williams gained access, on a tourist visa, to West Papua – a country to which journalists and foreign observers are flatly refused entry by the Indonesian government. After three weeks dodging Indonesian officials and police to gather interviews and information, he filed this report for Channel 4′s “Unreported World” series. Segment 1 (9:29 min)
Thank you David for this piece.
It brings back to me the first time I was aware…in late 1970s when Korean companies (Hyundai among them) were heavily invested in Western Papua (mining, timber) and sought American (my employer at the time) technology to build offshore processing plants (cement) to support their claims.
Fortunately though, the West Papuans have friends, other than those in mainstream media, that suppress time after time the realities in West Papua. And thanks to the internet, broadcasting the truth, is no longer reliant on their censorship.
To learn the facts, see the many films on these links:
fPcN interCultural: – http://www.fPcN-global.org/video
fPcN interCultural: – http://www.fPcN-global.org/content/Tribal-Films
Another very sad situation that goes under everyone’s radar. Yes, slowly but thankfully, it is gaining some visibility through the Internet.