When an unlikely coalition of socialists, Christians, Muslims, Arabs and Indigenous activists protest on Sunday to support Palestine, they have an even more unlikely ally.
When an unlikely coalition of socialists, Christians, Muslims, Arabs and Indigenous activists protest on Sunday to support Palestine, they have an even more unlikely ally.
When an unlikely coalition of socialists, Christians, Muslims, Arabs and Indigenous activists protest on Sunday to support Palestine, they have an even more unlikely ally.
Bambang Soesatyo, speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) in the Indonesian national parliament urged the government to deploy forces at full strength. He was quoted saying: “Destroy them first. We will discuss human rights matters later”.
Jasmine Pilbrow, spokesperson for Make West Papua Safe, condemned Australia’s continued training of Indonesian special forces and police. “Instead of making West Papua safe and ensuring human rights standards are adhered to, the AFP’s police training program in Indonesia is creating more effective human rights abusers,” she said.
In 2004, the AFP, with the assistance of the US government, set up the Indonesian police counter-insurgency force (D88).