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Putting Out the Flames in Papua

For 50 years, the fire of the Papua conflict has continued to smolder, and has now flared up once again.

By
Aisah Putri Budiatri
· 8 minutes read
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For 50 years, the fire of the Papua conflict has continued to smolder, and has now flared up once again. Triggered by the racial discrimination and abuse in East Java on 15-16 Aug. ahead of Indonesia\'s Independence Day, the public’s response in Papua and West Papua led to anarchic actions that continued until the end of August.

Their demands developed from an initial apology for the racial treatment and strict enforcement of the law against the perpetrators to greater demands that even included a Papuan referendum. It must be acknowledged that the mass action in Papua was born as a reaction to the racial discrimination in East Java, but even more fundamentally, as human solidarity through the accumulated momentum of the acute and prolonged conflict in Papua.

Editor:
Nasru Alam Aziz
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