West Papua Information Kit

West Papua Videos

Documentary and News videos

Blood on the Cross
- a 1999 documentary about 1996 Geselema massacre
2004 OPM gathering and Tmikia investigation
2006 refugees fleeing West Papua
Al Jazeera - A Silent War
The Secret War in Asia
Biak
Biak
Americans visit West Papua
Missionary introduction to remote regions
John Rumbiak
1969 journalist witness
Australia allowing colonial regime
West Papua / East Timor
Tears of Mother Mooi

Since Indonesia has forbidden western media, few journalist have been brave enough to report or document the many human rights abuses including the racial discrimination of a people as 'stone age' 'primitives'. At a time when the world is quickly depleating its resources, and is consumed by ethnic conflicts, it is unfortunate that we have overlook the world's most mature cultures because early explorers had mistaken technology for culture.

Instead of seeing these cultures for what they are, today one Indonesian tourist operator even sells a travel package in which he promises the customer will see cannables. Some tourist have even believed the performances provided.

• Rebels of the Forgotten World a 52 minute documentary as a film maker flys into West Papua and must then dodge TNI patrols searching for the group while completing their work and getting out on foot.

  Other Films include:

• Cry of the Forgotten Land is 26 minutes from 1995 filmed on a tourist visa to document some of the cultures of West Papua
• Land of the Morning Star produced in 2003 by the late Mark Worth for Film Australia using archive footage and footage from the brief period when Wahid (first Indonesian President not part of the corrupt Indonesian militia system) was in office.

• Theys Eluay before his murder in 2001.
• Benny Wenda at Geneva United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations 23rd Session, Geneva, 18-22 July 2005
• West Papua report about Laskar Jihad and ethnic replacement March 2005, very low resolution copy. DVD of original is available for free broadcast.
• 2004 Report about OPM National Congress, 2002 Timika ambush killing two American teachers #Warning this is DVD file Mpeg, 200Mb in size
• West Papua - Backgrounder 2004-07-14
• Economic vs. Human Rights a Noam Chomsky view of Indonesian relationship. A view which I do not share, as I have found considerable evidence that Standard Oil using Dutch subsidaries and others like Freeport Sulphur had been misrepresenting geologist teams to explore both the Dutch East Indies & West Papua for mineral wealth, but had kept these discoveries secret from both the Dutch and US governments until after business contracts with Indonesia were secured.
  A example of this was the Ertsbery discovery, where the 1936 geologist Jean Dozy confirmed in a 1980 interview in Brisbane that he had been very excited about size and pureity of the gold as well as the copper deposits. This is at odds with the Freeport version until recently available online which claim the gold was unknown & that it was Wilson in Aug. 1951 who read the old report and immediatly set forth to Western New Guinea. But, a more likely explanation is discovered in the pages of the New York Times which in March 1959 revealed that the Dutch government had now started to search for the source of the alluvial gold. I have found no evidence that the US government (outside of the CIA which had substanical Ford Foundation and Indonesian relations at the time) knew of this until the mid 1960s, indeed the 1962 use of communism to get Presidental assistance suggests to me that the companies had to use covert deception to achieve the transfer of adminstration to allow their mine operations.
• Two videos produced in Melbourne in 2003, the second also announcing the death of Yustinus Murib.
• London group, Eye on West Papua today Benny Wenda is out of Indonesia and helping to present his peoples calls in Europe. London protesters 2002.
• Point of Ignition history and the mass murder of highlanders in Wamena 2003. (44 Minutes)
• Attacks in 2003
• Papuan Reconciliation Forum