Books on West Papua with Our Brief Comments on the Contents

by Foreign Authors:

Where to get them?

  8West Papua's long struggle for justice: West Papua and Indonesia since Suharto - Independence, Autonomy or Chaos?
The island of New Guinea, our northern neighbour, is a tremendously rich and largely unspoilt island. One half of the island, Papua New Guinea, is often in our news � not always for good reasons. But what about the other half of the island, commonly known as West Papua?
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  Secessionist Challenges in Aceh and Papua: Is Special Autonomy the Solution? by Rodd McGibbon, Policy Studies, No. 10  

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West Papua: Obliteration of a People by C. Budiardjo and Liong, TAPOL, 1986.  This book compiles some documents on West Papua history, but the authors particularly emphasises the obliteration of a West Papua as a people, which sociologically called social engineering programmes in West Papua. They say that West Papua case of social engineering is the biggest ever in human history until this century.

 

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West Papua: Indonesia's Secret War, Osborne, Australia

 

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The Role of the U.N. in the Act of Free Choice, a Ph.D. Thesis, by John Stalford, Hull University, UK.

 

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Poisoned Arrows: An Investigative Journalism to Irian Jaya, by George Monbiot.

 

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Open Cage: A Hostage Drama in Mapenduma, 1996, by Daniel Start.

 

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Cahaya Bintang Kejora: Papua Barat dalam Kajian Sejarah, Budaya, Ekonomi, dan Hak Asasi Manusia, Dr. George J. Aditjondro, ELSAM, July 2000.

Cost Rp.20,000(Eq.US$4) Order from us You pay for delivery.

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Memoria Pasionais di Papua: Kondisi Hak Asasi Manusia dan Gerakan Aspirasi Merdeka: Gambaran 1999, Theo P.A. can den Broek, ofm & J.B. Hermawan, ofm, Sekretariat Keadilan dan Perdamaian, Keuskupan Jayapura, Jakarta,2001

Cost Rp.16,000(Eq.US$3.50) Order from us You pay for delivery.

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Bebaskan Irian Barat: Kumpulan Pidato Presiden Soekarno tentang Pembebasan Irian Barat (17 Agustus 1961-17 Agustus 1962), Ragam Media, Jakarta, 2000.

Cost Rp.16,000(Eq.US$3.50) Order from us You pay for delivery.

9. Under the Mountain Wall, by Peter Matthiessen, The Harvil Press, London, 1962. First published by the Viking Press Inc. 1962. ISBN 1 86046 8
In the Baliem Valley in central New Guiena live a Stone Age tribe that has surviced into the twentieth century, the Kurelu. Peter Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961 which set out to study this primitive people as unobtrusively as possible, lived among the Kurelu for two seasons, and produced a classic account, not of the expedition, but of a lost culture in all its violence and simplicity. Drawing on his skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen observes the Kurelu's timeless rhythms of work and play, of wariorship, feasting and funerals in one of the world's last and now vanishing wilderness.
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10 Bebaskan Irian Barat, A Compilation of Speeches by Former President Sukarno before and during the Military invasion to West New Guiena.  
11 Cahaya Bintang Kejora, by George Aditjondro.  
12 Proyek Berdarah   

by Papuan Writers:

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0. PAPUA MENGGUGAT: 11 November 2001, Hari Kematian Demokrasi, HAM dan Perjuangan Damai di Tanah Papua?, by S. Karoba & H. Gebze.

Cost, Rp.60,000,- excl. Postage
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Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM), by A.J. Djopari, MA

 

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Eevolusi Nasionalisme dan Pergerakan Papua Barat, by N. Pigay.

 

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