West Papua.

The MSG nation – states have taken all available evidence into account in which ULMWP has embodied the aspirations of Papuans to seek independence from day one since the 1960s.

Pro – merdeka civil resistance organizations have been operating underground since the 1960s, but after the ‘Papuan Spring’ of 2000 pro – democracy protests throughout the former Dutch colony have highlighted the corrosive effects of globalization on the indigenous people of the region, and to fight for equality, and make it a reality, not just myth.

Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace travelled through Southeast Asia, and in his book, The Malay Archipelago, which first appeared in 1869, he distinguished Asia as different from Oceania, and the Pacific region. And, he developed a high opinion of indigenous people.

Alfred Wallace said:

‘In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as an people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.’

ULMWP has done well to bring the Indonesian occupying government authorities and its military regime in West Papua to its knees. But like naturalists, we could look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life, and corruption in high places.

West Papua was sold off as a commodity, which was fraud. The fight to the finishing line is still on.

MSG will deliver our people.

The long-running conflict in West Papua has slipped from the headlines in recent times as other regional issues took precedence in many newsrooms. But this week it’s back on the news agenda – so what’s going on there?