US State Department report puts spotlight on West Papua

April 14, 2022

A report by the US State Department on human rights in Indonesia has cast a spotlight on the ongoing genocide being committed in West Papua.

The report includes credible evidence supporting claims of human rights abuses by the Indonesian regime including:

• Unlawful civilian harm
• Torture and physical abuses
• Serious restrictions on free expression and media, including unjustified arrests or prosecutions of journalists and religious figures
• Censorship, and the existence of criminal libel laws
• Serious restrictions on internet freedom
• Substantial interference with the freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association
• Serious government corruption
• Lack of investigation of and accountability for gender-based violence
• Crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting members of racial and ethnic minority groups
• Crimes involving violence or threats of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex persons
• Existence of laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual conduct between adults.

Read the full report on the State Department website or download a PDF of it here