March 13th, 2013
Monday, 14 January 2013, 1:59 pm Article: Pacific Freedom Forum Indonesia brutality towards West Papua “medieval” – PFF PFF, Rarotonga, COOK ISLANDS – Killing, beating, abducting and jailing journalists in West Papua remains the most immediate issue in regional affairs, states the Pacific Freedom Forum. Wrapping up its fourth year of advocacy, PFF chairs said [...]
Antonio Josiah
March 13th, 2013
I recently had a bad experience with a Facebook ‘friend’. It was an uncalled for encounter, but it happened nevertheless. You see, said ‘friend’ thought the world was his. He figured that his personality and individuality was under attack wherever he ‘went’, so he felt the need to lash out at anything that seemed remotely [...]
Antonio Josiah
March 13th, 2013
The source of the human rights problems in West Papua is the colonization and subsequent dispossession of the lands and resources of the indigenous peoples. They have been prevented from exercising their fundamental freedoms, including their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests. A frequent and pervasive cause of dispute has [...]
Antonio Josiah
March 13th, 2013
Reblogged from Vanuatu Daily Digest: Vanuatu's opposition has deposited a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Sato Kilman with the office of the Speaker of Parliament. It was signed by 16 of the 51 active members of Parliament. If the Speaker rules the motion is in order it will be debated next Tuesday. The [...]
Antonio Josiah
March 12th, 2013
Came across these at the former Presidential Residence at the Joint Court area. Filed under: In the wild, Photos, Poems, Thoughts
Antonio Josiah
March 12th, 2013
Refugees There are currently around 10,400 West Papuan refugees living in East Awin and in border camps in Papua New Guinea and up to 150 living in exile overseas. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Papua New Guinea government recognises those in East Awin as refugees. The more than 7,000 living [...]
Antonio Josiah
March 8th, 2013
Information Number 1 on Tropical Cyclone Sandra issued by the Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-Hazards Department, Port Vila at 6:44am VUT Friday 8 March 2013. At 5:00am local time today, Tropical Cyclone Sandra (989 hPa) was located at 14.6S 156.0E, outside the Vanuatu tropical cyclone tracking map. That is about 1210 KM west of Luganville. The [...]
Antonio Josiah
March 8th, 2013
Seventh-Day Adventist Church Official TV Channel- Hope, is getting a better solid-satellite disk for better re-broadcast in Port Vila and Luganville. Since its launch in 2012 by the former Vanuatu Mission President Pr John Leeman, it has been under testing by technicians.Prime Minister Sato Kilman, as minister responsible for media, handed a broadcast license to [...]
Antonio Josiah
March 7th, 2013
From today onwards, this blog will be dedicated to producing two articles relating to West Papua every week. These two articles will be followed by a re-published news article that generally talks about the relations between Indonesia, Vanuatu, and Melanesia as a whole. Any other material published will not necessarily be related to West Papua. [...]
Antonio Josiah