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"#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua'" by Camellia Webb-Gannon

The ongoing conflict in West Papua has at various times been attributed to a contestation of Indonesian versus West Papuan nationalisms, Indonesia's economic exploitation of West Papua, and Indonesia's geopolitical interest in colonising West Papua. Recently, a new framing has been brought to bear on the occupation that highlights the role of Indonesian racism in West Papuans' ongoing pursuit of independence from its coloniser. While West Papuans have long been aware that they are victims of racist denigration, since 2019, a narrative of racism in the analysis of their ongoing colonisation one with global reverberations has acquired a potency that has re-energised West Papuans' independence movement. In this article I argue that a concatenation of events has propelled the issue of racism to ascendency within the West Papuan activist agenda prompting the emergence of the Papuan Lives Matter movement. I analyse this powerful discursive shift from viewing the occupatio ....

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A Racial Justice Campaign Brought New Attention to Indonesia's Poorest Region. Will It Translate to Support for Independence?


A Racial Justice Campaign Brought New Attention to Indonesia’s Poorest Region. Will It Translate to Support for Independence?
Time
12/15/2020
Amy Gunia
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Papuans gather outside the burning Buruni market in Fakfak, West Papua, after it was torched by protesters on Aug. 2019 as unrest triggered by accusations that security insulted Papuan students in Surabaya continued
As racial justice protests swept the U.S. this summer, a related movement was taking hold thousands of miles away in Indonesia. Papuan Lives Matter began as a hashtag on social media, spreading across the sprawling archipelago of 270 million people. Indonesians shared links to webinars and websites with information about human rights issues in the region of West Papua. An Instagram post saying “We cannot talk about #Black Lives Matter without talking about West Papua” received more than 8,500 likes. ....

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