Govt proposes budget of Rp770 4 trillion for village fund transfers antaranews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from antaranews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It is open season again for Indonesian trolls targeting
Asia Pacific Report and other media with fake news and disinformation dispatches in a crude attempt to gloss over human rights violations.
Just three months ago I wrote about this issue in my âDear editorâ article exposing the disinformation campaign. There was silence for a while but now the fake letters to the editor and other media outlets have started again in earnest.
The latest four lengthy letters emailed to
APR canvas the following topics Jakartaâs controversial special autonomy status revised law for Papua, a brutal assault by Indonesian Air Force military policemen on a deaf Papuan man, and a shooting incident allegedly committed by pro-independence rebels and they appear to have been written from a stock template.
Constitutional challenge against West Papua law rnz.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rnz.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
[AFP]
Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday approved a new special autonomy law for Papua that boosts central government funding for the troubled region, but the main separatist group there said it was drafted without addressing the Papuan people’s political and human rights.
Jakarta granted special autonomy for Papua in 2001 to mollify desires for independence, but Indonesian security forces have been accused of human rights abuses during anti-insurgency operations in the far-eastern region.
The new legislation, which follows the expiration of the 2001 special autonomy law and extends that status by two decades, will spur development in Papua, Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian said in parliament, about the region that comprises Papua and West Papua provinces.
Indonesia s House of Representatives has passed a bill that is expected to reshape the future administration of West Papua.
The Revision of the Special Autonomy Law for the provinces of Papua and West Papua was ratified by Indonesian lawmakers despite widespread opposition by Papuans who have been calling instead for an independence referendum.
Jayapura Harbour, Papua province, Indonesia
Photo: RNZI/Johnny Blades
The revised version of autonomy provisions first introduced twenty years ago paves the way for further division of Papua region into more administrative areas.
It includes provision for the formation of new representative institutions at regency and municipal level, replacing the Regional Legislative Councils.