West Papua ‘independence’ and the Papua New Guinea press

Matbob, Patrick; Papoutsaki, Evangelia

doi:10.24135/pjr.v12i2.864

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“…Matbob's approach is somewhat different by discussing the realm of media. He focused on reporting three newspapers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and interviewing West Papuan refugees in PNG (Matbob & Papoutsaki, 2006). However, Matbob does not research at a broad reader level.…”

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“…With the massive social media and freedom of information, the results of this study are valuable input for audience and media stakeholders (non-social media). Referring to the conclusion of Matbob's research that there has been a dramatic decline in Papua New Guinea (Post Courier, The National and Time of Papua New Guinea) press coverage of West Papua over the past 20 years (Matbob & Papoutsaki, 2006). One reason is the dependence of newspapers with international news sources when covering West Papua.…”

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“…The historical and political reality of Papua was also analyzed by Ali Muhammad (Muhammad, 2013) and Leslie (Rollings, 2010). The Papua conflict, seen from the eyes of mainstream media in Papua New Guinea, shows that there is a decreasing press coverage found in 3 media outlets, namely Post-Courier, The National, and Times of Papua New Guinea (Matbob & Papoutsaki, 2006). In general, research on Papua previously focused more on aspects of government policy and the Papuan community movement.…”

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The Use of Social Media in Searching for Information about Papua

Ashrianto

Yustitia

2020

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<p><em>The use of social media in searching for information relating to political issues has become immensely crucial since in those domains the information appearing is often biased and dominated by certain parties or groups. One of the political information that has frequently emerged in Indonesia is about Papua. The significance of this research because Papua is a crucial problem in Indonesian history, and its conversation has continued, especially in social media. This study intends to examine the use of social media in searching for information about Papua. That is a novelty of research because no one has examined Papua in terms of the use of social media. The Uses and Gratification Theory is used in the study with a mixed method approach as both quantitative and qualitative data were concurrently utilized. Quantitative data obtained from a questionnaire distributed to 100 UPN "Veteran" Yogyakarta students. UPN was selected because they are a state defense campus and provide state defense material to students. While qualitative data from in-depth interviews with some sources. In conclusion, social media cannot be used as the only media for seeking information about Papua. Audiences actively choose the media based on their motivation, experience, and satisfaction.</em></p>

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The Use of Social Media in Searching for Information about Papua

Ashrianto

Yustitia

2020

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“…Vanuatu's small media industry has been an exception to this, and journalists in other Melanesian countries are slowly doing more. However, notably, media outlets in Papua New Guinea have shown West Papua to be the country's ongoing blindspot (Matbob & Papoutsaki, 2006). It is a similar situation in Australia and New Zealand (Leadbeater, 2008;Perrottet & Robie, 2011;Robie, 2013).…”

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Melanesia’s test: The political quandary of West Papua

Blades¹

2014

PJR

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West Papuans often say that the conflict in their homeland, the self-determination struggle against Indonesian territorial control and the impact of a heavy military presence, are a regional issue. As a people, the West Papuans have historically identified as being Pacific Islanders and particularly as Melanesians. If a regional solution is required to address the political quandary of West Papua, it is informative to adopt a regional lens and explore the way the other Melanesian countries, especially the governments and media, respond to the situation there; also how they engage with Indonesia over West Papua. Events of the last few years within the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) have made it clear that some leverage is being applied on the issue in the geopolitical domain. At the same time, mainstream media coverage of events unfolding in West Papua, as well as the MSG’s response, has been largely missing. However, a true internationalisation of the West Papua issue has arrived and deserves close inspection.

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“…A movement based on cultural activism led by the West Papuan anthropologist Arnold Ap during the late 1970s and the early 1980s ended after his death at the hands of the state (Zubrinich, 1997). West Papuan abilities to attract international support has been limited by restrictions placed on access to the region by anthropologists (Kirsch, 2002: 54), journalists (Matbob and Papoutsaki, 2006), human rights workers, and diplomats (McWilliams, 2007: 15). For more than three decades, the Organisasi Papua Merdeka, or Free Papua Movement, was the primary vehicle of West Papuan political resistance.…”

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Ethnographic Representation and the Politics of Violence in West Papua

Kirsch

2010

Critique of Anthropology

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■ This article examines how ethnographic representations of violence inflect contemporary understandings of West Papua and influence its politics. It describes how colonial depictions of perpetual warfare in the highlands became paradigmatic for the region. Recent forms of extreme tourism draw on these images in offering encounters with ‘lost tribes’ that undermine the credibility of West Papuan political actors. Similarly, an American mining company paid the Indonesian military for protection against the West Papuan resistance movement while ignoring the violence of state actors. However, the collapse of Suharto’s New Order Indonesia has facilitated the reinterpretation of merdeka (freedom) as social justice, suggesting alternative ways to conceptualize West Papua’s relationship to the Indonesian state. Recent efforts by West Papuan activists to mobilize the discourses of human rights and indigenous politics are contingent on displacing the narratives of violence that dominate popular understandings of West Papua. This article shows how ethnographic representations may have negative consequences for indigenous politics.

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West Papua ‘independence’ and the Papua New Guinea press

Cited by 7 publications

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The Use of Social Media in Searching for Information about Papua

The Use of Social Media in Searching for Information about Papua

Melanesia’s test: The political quandary of West Papua

Ethnographic Representation and the Politics of Violence in West Papua

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