#westpapua

Reports from Merauke, Biak Numfor and Teluk Bintuni regencies in #WestPapua highlighted disputes over customary land, including alleged encroachment, intimidation and threats of displacement. For indigenous Papuans, land sustains food security, livelihoods and cultural identity. Read HMR's Papua Monitor:

#News: 🇬🇧🤮 #UK bank #HSBC, #fossilfuel giant #BP, and #Unilever are profiting from #ecocide in #WestPapua for #palmoil #mining. It’s a long story of #colonial #exploitation and #humanrights abuses. Demand justice! #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk 🌴☠️🚫

With jet black plumage 🖤 and bright green 💚 wattles, male Western Parotia #birds 🐦🦜🦚 of paradise gleam like scaly armour when they dance 🎶 Resist against their #extinction in #WestPapua when you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

#Study finds #palmoil expansion in #WestPapua isn’t just fuelling #deforestation but also colonialist-style #landgrabbing #violence and systematic erasure of #Indigenous #Melanesian cultures and languages. #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔☠️🩸🚜🔥🧐⛔️ @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

#News: #British companies make millions from violent repression in #WestPapua! 🇬🇧💰 Report finds #UK banks and co's fund #mining, gas, and dirty #palmoil projects driving mass #deforestation and #humanrights abuses via Indonesian #military occupation. #FreeWestPapua. When you shop - take action! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

Pesquet’s #parrots 🦜 of #WestPapua and #NewGuinea 🇵🇬 are also known as Dracula parrots for their stunning red and black feathers. They’re vulnerable due to #palmoil #deforestation 🔥😡 Take action for them #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

#News: Exhibition highlights vanishing of West Papua’s UNESCO recognised #noken weaving for #palmoil and #sugarcane in #WestPapua. Reject corporate #landgrabbing for palm oil in when you shop! #BoycottPalmOil #HumanRights #IndigenousRights @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

#WestPapua is home to unusual #animals like tree #kangaroo 🦘 and Papuan #eagle 🦅 The region was taken by force by #Indonesia Forest treasures belong to indigenous peoples NOT #palmoil co’s. Resist! #FreeWestPapua and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴⛔️ @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

#News: At least six civilians, including #children, have been killed by Indonesian #military in a brutal #massacre in #WestPapua! 🛑🇮🇩 This horrific violence is part of a decades-long #occupation designed to crush resistance and steal #Indigenous land for massive #palmoil plantations. 🌳🕊️ #FreeWestPapua #HumanRights #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

Stunning arboreal #lizards 🦎 blue-spotted tree monitors are endangered by #timber #deforestation and the rampant illegal #pet #trade in colonised #WestPapua. Help them survive and #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🔥🧐🙊⛔️@palmoildetectives

The Wondiwoi tree #kangaroo 🦘🌿 is the most endangered kangaroo alive due to #palmoil #deforestation 🪔🌴 and hunting across their range of #WestPapua. Take action to help these wide-eyed beauties #Boycottpalmoil 👎 #Boycott4Wildlife 🚫 @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

Two #possums thought extinct for 6000 years are alive in #WestPapua! The pygmy #possum and sacred ring-tailed #glider deserve a break from #palmoil #ecocide. Stand with #indigenous defenders against #colonialism! 🌴🚫 @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk #BoycottPalmOil

Huon Tree Kangaroo 🦘🩷 have a cute teddy-like 🧸 face and a monkey-like tail. In #PapuaNewGuinea and #WestPapua they are endangered by #palmoil #deforestation and #mining. Support them every time you #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

The cheeky colourful Bougainville Moustached Kingfisher 🦜🇵🇬 lives in #PapuaNewGuinea and #WestPapua #rainforest, endangered by #palmoil #deforestation. Boycott the brands destroying their home #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk #Boycott4Wildlife

#News: 19 years of #landgrabbing exposed! 🌴⚖️ In Sorong, #WestPapua, #PalmOil co PT Inti Kebun Sejahtera accused of land theft from peasant #farmers and #Indigenous #MoiAresi clan by force. Now, the company is criminalising defenders with FAKED #fraud charges. #BoycottPalmOil #HumanRights @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

Regisseur Dandhy Laksono: ‘Wat in West-Papoea gebeurt, is puur kolonialisme’ MO* Documentaire stelt fundamentele vragen over landroof en de rechten van inheemse gemeenschappen De documentaire Pesta Babi veroorzaakt heel wat deining in Indonesië, en zelfs tot ver buiten de landsgrenzen. Toch blijft co-regisseur Dandhy Laksono onverminderd strijdbaar. ‘Het Papoease volk verdient onze volledige aandacht.’ (Tekst loopt door onder de foto.) Regisseur Dandhy Laksono tijdens opnames voor een documentaire. Dit jaar verscheen Pesta Babi (letterlijk vertaald:Varkensfeest), de nieuwe documentaire van regisseurs Dandhy Laksono en Cypri Paju Dalu. De film speelt zich af in Papoea, het westelijke en Indonesische deel van het eiland Nieuw-Guinea. Het gebied is rijk aan goud, koper, nikkel en gas, maar ook aan uitgestrekte bosgronden die volgens de Indonesische overheid geschikt zijn voor grootschalige landbouw. Sinds 2020 worden in Zuid-Papoea op grote schaal bossen gekapt voor de aanleg van voedsel- en energieplantages. Pesta Babi brengt de gevolgen van die ambitieuze projecten in beeld en stelt tegelijk fundamentele vragen over landroof, militarisering en de rechten van inheemse gemeenschappen. De documentaire wakkerde in Indonesië een nationaal debat aan dat uiteindelijk verder reikt dan de ontbossing alleen: hoe verhoudt de Indonesische staat zich tot de bevolking van Papoea? En in hoeverre draagt het land nog altijd de sporen van zijn eigen koloniale verleden? (...) Volledige artikel #nederlands #WestPapua #papua #NieuwGuinea #NederlandsNieuwGuinea #indonesie #InheemseBevolking #papoea #WestPapoea #racisme #discriminatie #kolonialisme #landroof #OorspronkelijkeBevolking #film #documentaire

With the adorable face of a #teddybear 🧸 and the agile body of a #Kangaroo 🦘 the #Dingiso is a tree kangaroo of #WestPapua. They’re #endangered from #palmoil #deforestation Fight for them and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Widlife 🌴🩸🔥☠️🧐⛔️ @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

Northern Gliders are rare gliding #mammals 🪂🧐🩷 critically endangered in #PapuaNewGuinea #WestPapua. Support them and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife because many supermarket brands are sending them #extinct for dirty #palmoil @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

As of late August 2026, more than 127,031 civilians remain displaced in #WestPapua. For the first time, the Indonesian government publicly acknowledged the crisis, estimating around 122,000 IDPs. Security operations in Yahukimo's Korowai area caused some 600 indigenous Papuans to flee into forests. A 16-year-old student, Victor Bahabol, died while fleeing. IDPs have received no assistance from national humanitarian organisations.

Part of an ancient group of egg-laying monotreme #mammals, Attenborough Long-Beaked #Echidnas of #WestPapua are critically endangered. Fight for their survival when you shop and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk