What can I do?

Join West Papua Action (and receive West Papua News) and/or start a branch in your area.

Inform yourself:
visit http://westpapuaaction.buz.org
Subscribe to West Papua Enews by emailing wpaction@iol.ie with Enews in the subject heading. Order a video from West Papua Action.

Inform others:
friends, family, work colleagues, by word of mouth, by phone, email, distributing leaflets. Write to your local TDs, Senators, MEPs.

In light of the admission by UN Under-Secretary General Chakravarthy Narasimhan that it was a "whitewash", write to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dept. of Foreign Affairs, 80 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. Ask him/her to call for a United Nations review of its conduct in relation to the Act of 'Free' Choice in West Papua in 1968-69.

Organise a meeting on West Papua in your area, school, college, ... (contact the campaign for speaker and/or video).

Write to local and national newspapers, radio stations, and to TV stations expressing your concern over the situation in West Papua, and asking them to give more coverage to the issue.

Addresses, Web sites, Books, Videos, music, other

West Papua Action, 134 Phibsborough Road, Dublin 7, Ireland.
Tel. 01 8603431. E-mail: wpaction@iol.ie
http://westpapuaaction.buz.org includes links to other West Papua sites
Publishes West Papua News, available by subscription.

TAPOL, The Indonesia Human Rights Campaign, 111 Northwood Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8HW, England.
tel +44 (0)20 8771 2904 fax +44 (0)20 8653 0322
tapol@gn.apc.org website: http://tapol.gn.apc.org
Publishes Tapol Bulletin

Down to Earth, International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia, 59 Athenlay Road, London SE15 3EN, England.
Tel/fax: +44 (0) 207 732 7984
Email: dte@gn.apc.org
www.gn.apc.org/dte
Publishes Down to Earth newsletter

To get regular news in your inbox, send an email to WestPapua-subscribe@topica.com
You can also read the same news on the web at:
http://www.topica.com./lists/WestPapua@topica.com/

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cline/papua/ (West Papua Information Kit)

Books

John Saltford, The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua. RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2003.

George Monbiot, Poisoned Arrows. Abacus, London, 1989.

Carmel Budiardjo and Liem Soei Liong, West Papua: The Obliteration of a People. Tapol, London, 1988.

Videos

Mark Worth, Act of No Choice. Australia.

Arrows Against the Wind. Land Beyond Production, Australia, 1992.

Other resources

New Internationalist, Special Edition on West Papua, April 2002; West Papua music CDs; West Papua stickers, leaflets - all available from West Papua Action.