The IPWP notes with deep concern the recent announcement by Minister of Transmigration Muhammad Iftitah Sulaiman Suryanagara that new Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto plans to introduce a new transmigration programme to West Papua.  Transmigration has led to dramatic demographic change in West Papua. Between 1972 and 2000, over 300,000 Indonesians were relocated to West Papua, and the.

The inaugural West Papua All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) of the new Parliament was held in the House of Commons today (10/09/2024).  Chaired by Alex Sobel MP (Labour), the APPG was attended by MPs Luke Akehurst (Labour), Alex Ballinger (Labour), Jeremy Corbyn (Independent), Tan Dhesi (Labour), Alex Barros-Curtis (Labour), Lord Richard Harries, and addressed by ULMWP.

We, the undersigned Parliamentarians, urge the Indonesian government to facilitate a visit to West Papua by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). West Papua is in the grip of a significant humanitarian crisis and requires urgent international attention. The UN estimates that 60,000-100,000 indigenous Papuans were displaced as a.