Above photo: Some members of the group of 43 that crossed the Arafura Sea in 2006 became part of a band called Tabura, who blend traditional and contemporary music to tell the story of West Papua to world. In this photograph, urban roots band Blue King Brown brought members of Tabura on stage for their performance at Womadelaide Music Festival in 2012. The image sparked a diplomatic firestorm between Indonesia and Australia.
West Papuan people are taking their futures back into their own hands. They are taking communication with the world into their own hands. The Indonesian government can not stop the West Papuan people now.
The Indonesian government wants to hide what it has been doing in West Papua for 50 years and does not want West Papuan people to communicate with the world. They are trying to stop people finding out about the Act of free Choice in 1969. The Indonesian government thought they could fraudulently carry out the the Act of free Choice and the massacre and torture of those who reject it without the world finding out. But today they can no longer hide what they have done. The West Papuan people are telling the story themselves. Indonesia cannot hide from what they have done in West Papua. Truth and justice is coming to West Papua.
Free West Papua!
You can find out more here: http://freewestpapua.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/freewestpapua?fref=ts