INDONESIA - Humanitarian impacts of continuing conflict in the Papua provinces OVERVIEW

Where no incident-specific information is available, this report draws on a study convened by the Bishop’s Conference of Indonesia, the West Papua Council of Churches, Between January–September 2024, several spikes in armed conflict in the six Papua provinces and the Fellowship of Churches in Indonesia, which is based on July–August interviews with of Indonesia aggravated the humanitarian needs of. [...] The report emphasises Humanitarian access and information constraints significant humanitarian access constraints and response gaps and examines the Indonesia’s immigration legislation (Articles 12 and 13) authorises the Ministry of Foreign Affairs outlook in the coming months. [...] Source: HRW (18/09/2024) The Papuan independence movement has continued since the referendum, primarily expressed through peaceful protest, which the Indonesian authorities have routinely met Indonesian journalists often refrain from discussing the situation in Papua in recognition of with arbitrary arrest, a disproportionate use of force, and other forms of violence and the significant risks asso. [...] The economy that developed around 14 June: security forces raided 15 villages in Bibida and Paniai Timur districts, Paniai these resources has attracted the extensive migration of non-Papuans and increased the regency, Central Papua province, and engaged in combat with the TPNPB. [...] For example, in May 2024, armed the government statistics agency estimated that less than 30% of households in former clashes between Indonesian security forces and the TPNPB in Paniai regency, Central Papua province (the lowest rate among any province in Indonesia) and 57% in former West Papua province, led to the closure of the only general hospital in the regency.