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600 Army Officers Deployed to Guard Papua Freeport (31 Aug 2009)
Jakarta Globe- The road to Freeport's Timika mine has become hazardous. At least 600 army officers will help secure the working areas of the PT Freeport Indonesia mine in Timika, Papua, starting on September 2, following a number of armed attacks on the site.

'Precarious' Papua Needs Government Focus (31 Aug 2009)
Antara- The man who led President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's campaign team in Papua for the July presidential election urged the government on Sunday to pay more attention to the province, where he said conditions were becoming "more and more precarious."

Reflecting on the Act of Free Choice and the integration of West Papua into Indonesia (30 Aug 2009)
East Timor celebrated a decade since the United Nations vote which gave it independence from Indonesia. This year, too, many West Papuans have been remembering a UN sponsored vote, but many of them have been mourning how it denied them their independence.

ASEAN urged to form human rights court (26 Aug 2009)
A coalition of 70 Asian NGOs called on ASEAN countries Tuesday to create a regional human rights court, amid criticism over the grouping's failure to form a powerful rights commission and to push Myanmar to free Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

No International Red Cross Return For Papua (26 Aug 2009)
Jakarta Globe- The Indonesian government on Friday reiterated its position that the International Committee of the Red Cross would not be allowed to open an office in Papua, despite the Australian Senate's motion urging the government to allow the Red Cross unfettered access to the troubled region.