Papua conflict
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The Papua conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Indonesian Government and portions of the indigenous populations of West Papua in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua on the island of New Guinea;
in which the Indonesian government has been accused of conducting a
genocidal campaign against the indigenous inhabitants. Since the
withdrawal of the Dutch colonial administration from the Netherlands New Guinea in 1962,[3] the implementation of Indonesian governance in 1963 and the formal absorption of West Papua into Indonesia in 1969, the Free Papua Movement
(OPM), a militant Papuan-independence organisation, has conducted a
low-level guerilla war against the Indonesian state, targeting the
Indonesian military and police, as well as engaging in the kidnapping of
both non-Papuan Indonesian settlers and foreigners.[4] West Papuans have conducted various protests and ceremonies raising their flag for independence or federation with Papua New Guinea,[4]
and accuse the Indonesian government of indiscriminate violence and of
suppressing their freedom of expression. Many West Papuans have been
killed by the Indonesian military since 1969 and the Indonesian
governance style has been compared to that of a police state, suppressing freedom of political association and political expression.[5][6]
The Indonesian Government restricts foreign access to the Papua and
West Papua provinces due to sensitivities regarding its suppression of
Papuan nationalism.
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