{"id":2242,"date":"2025-06-10T00:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2025-06-10T00:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:34:41","slug":"interim-president-new-massacre-in-intan-jaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"Interim President: New massacre in Intan Jaya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

June 9, 2025 in Statement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fresh details are now emerging of the Indonesian military operation, which took place in Sugapa and Hitadipa districts on 13th<\/sup> May 2025. Soldiers shot indiscriminately at villagers during a clash with the TPNPB, who reported that they suffered four casualties \u2013 fourteen less than the eighteen dead claimed by Indonesia. Given Indonesia\u2019s longstanding practice<\/a> of labelling every civilian they murder at \u2018KKB\u2019 \u2013 armed criminal group, Indonesia\u2019s euphemism for every Papuan who defends their land \u2013 this suggests that the true number of civilians killed may be closer to fifteen. The victims of the TNI\u2019s brutality included a child, a 75-year-old elder, and two women, Hetina Mirip and Tapamina Tapani. Soldiers buried one of the women in a shallow grave to disguise their crime. To add to this depravity, they surrounded her grave with landmines to blow up any relatives who came near. These are the tactics the occupying regime uses to destroy my people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 1000 Intan Jaya villagers fled the chaotic violence, adding to the 87,000 West Papuans<\/a> who are currently internally displaced, forced to live as refugees in the bush by countless Indonesian military operations. In a video, a Papuan elder is faced down by Indonesian soldiers in full military gear as she describes how her village has been occupied and destroyed by the TNI. Is she a security threat to Indonesia? How long will Pacific leaders entertain Indonesia while they kill their own people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intan Jaya refugees are victims of one of the world\u2019s worst, and most secretive, humanitarian crises. More and more of our people are being forced to leave their homes to make way for ecocidal industrial projects. It is no coincidence that Intan Jaya is home to the Wabu Block<\/a>, a gigantic gold mine spanning an area the size of Jakarta \u2013 in West Papua, business interests and military action are closely connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wabu Block is a reminder that West Papua is on the frontline of the global climate crisis. The sugarcane and bioethanol project in Merauke<\/a> \u2013 the world\u2019s largest deforestation project<\/a> \u2013 will alone more than double Indonesia\u2019s emissions. By supporting the ULMWP and our Green State Vision<\/a>, by supporting these villagers in Intan Jaya through the West Papua boycott campaign<\/a>, you are fighting for the future of planet earth. But I will say this directly: any climate action that does not include West Papua is pointless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indonesia\u2019s current military escalation \u2013 in Puncak<\/a>, Intan Jaya<\/a>, Nduga<\/a>, but also in non-Highlands Regencies like Merauke<\/a> and Raja Ampat<\/a> \u2013 is designed to secure Indonesian and corporate interests in West Papua. The ULMWP calls on the world to condemn this massacre and stop investing in West Papua until Indonesia complies with its international obligations and facilitates the visit to West Papua by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, demanded by over 110 UN member states. I also call on the Indonesian government to immediately allow the UN visit; to withdraw their military from the Highlands allow the IDPs to return home; and to facilitate an end to the violence through a self-determination referendum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, this is the only path to peace in West Papua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interim President: New massacre in Intan Jaya<\/a><\/blockquote>