On the last day of January 2019, the Free Papua Organisation (OPM) announced in Port Moresby that it recognized that West Papua was in a state of war with Indonesia and supported the OPM’s military wing, the National Liberation Army of West Papua (TPNPB) is its own declaration of war against Indonesia early in 2018. […]
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There has been a lot of confusion about the recent abrupt cancellation of Australia-Indonesia military cooperation and, with the exception of language teaching, its resumption. As should have been clear from the outset, Australia has been used as a whipping boy for an internal Indonesian power play. The trouble started at the SAS base in […]
Approaching the tenth anniversary of what has otherwise been described as one of the most successful peace agreements of recent times, Indonesia’s province of Aceh is on the verge of again being plunged into bloody conflict. Indonesia’s Defence Minister, the former hardline general Ryamizard Ryacudu, has threatened to return Aceh to military conflict status following […]