Tag Archives: West Papua

West Papua – advocacy, dialogue & engagement

Posted on June 19, 2013 by pacificinstitute

On the eve of the MSG Leaders’ Summit, the Pacific Institute for Public Policy argue that, “it’s time to talk frankly and openly about West Papua’s future. Melanesian leaders face a question integral to their collective identity: How and whether West … Continue reading →

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Jobs: SSGM Pacific Research Fellow Positions

Posted on June 17, 2013 by pacificinstitute

The State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific is seeking to appoint two Pacific Research Fellows with ongoing research interests in Melanesia (PNG, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, New … Continue reading →

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Petition to save KIT Library & The Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam)

Posted on June 14, 2013 by pacificinstitute

The Library of the Royal Institute for the Tropics and The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam’s ethnographic and multicultural museum [with an outstanding permanent exhibition of art and artefacts from New Guinea and Oceania], may close in the next few years if the Government of … Continue reading →

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Papuan Voices: Australian Tour

Posted on May 22, 2013 by pacificinstitute

2:00-3:30pm 27 May 2013, Sparkes Helmore Theatre, College of Law, ANU. Papuan Voices is a video-advocacy initiative assisting West Papuan communities to tell their stories. It challenges common misconceptions about this troubled territory and builds local storytellers in a region … Continue reading →

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ANU Linguistics Newsletter 4(2) (May 2013)

Posted on May 14, 2013 by pacificinstitute

Linguistics newsletter Vol.4 No.2 (May 2013) is now available. This newsletter gives updates on linguistics research at the ANU across the Asia Pacific and includes important information on ongoing research across the island of New Guinea.

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Charité: return of ancestral remains

Posted on May 10, 2013 by pacificinstitute

On 26 April the Charité University Hospital in Berlin returned the ancestral remains of 33 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to their Traditional Owners. This was the first ever return of Australian Indigenous ancestral remains from a German institution and … Continue reading →

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Resource development and peace building in Melanesia

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Kylie McKenna

Given the long history of conflict associated with resource development in many parts of the world, I have been looking at whether resource development companies see a role for themselves in peace building. How do executives of multi-national resource companies think about their responsibilities in this area? As a starting point I began my research talking with corporate executives in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia about what role they [...] Continue reading →

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Selling the Sea, Fishing for Power A study of conflict over marine tenure in Kei Islands, Eastern Indonesia

Posted on March 16, 2013 by pacificinstitute

Dedi Supriadi Adhuri’s new book, Selling the Sea, Fishing for Power A study of conflict over marine tenure in Kei Islands, Eastern Indonesia (Asia Pacific Environment Monograph number 8), is now available through ANU Epress in  PDF   View Online   ePub   mobile and print copy … Continue reading →

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Ancestors of the Lake wins Prix International du Livre d’Art Tribal 2013

Posted on March 14, 2013 by pacificinstitute

Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea has just been awarded the 2013 Prix International du Livre d’Art Tribal (International Tribal Art Book Prize). The judges described the book as “… a stunning look … Continue reading →

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Jobs: new academic positions for SSGM

Posted on March 13, 2013 by pacificinstitute

State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Program seeks to appoint up to eight early to mid-career scholars, with ongoing research interests in Melanesia or Timor-Leste. SSGM seeks scholars with backgrounds in political science, anthropology, human geography, law, gender studies and … Continue reading →

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Keating’s Timor and Carr’s Papua

Posted on December 3, 2012 by pacificinstitute

In this new post to Eureka Street, Fr Frank Brennan SJ cautions that “A bilateral relationship [between Australia and Indonesia] posited on a self-imposed ban on human rights discussion would be a very perverted relationship for a robust democracy like … Continue reading →

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Women Leadership in Peacebuilding Program 2013 Academic Scholarship (deadline for applications extended)

Posted on November 26, 2012 by pacificinstitute

The Pacific Institute has just received news from The Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding (PCP) that the deadline has been extended on applications for The Women Leadership in Peacebuilding Program 2013 Academic Scholarship.  This scholarship is intended to meet all of the costs associated with … Continue reading →

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Living without a state: People in rural Papua are more interested in basic services than grand political struggles

Posted on November 26, 2012 by pacificinstitute

In this new post to Inside Indonesia, Bobby Anderson explores development challenges that don’t get much attention in media (or other) accounts of daily life in West Papua.

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Talanoa Oceania 2012 (conference report)

Posted on November 22, 2012 by pacificinstitute

Conference Report by Dr Roannie Ng Shiu and Nacanieli Rika, Co-Convenors of Talanoa Oceania 2012. The 5th Talanoa Oceania conference was held in Canberra from 9-10 November. Talanoa Oceania in Canberra and the Australian National University (ANU) Pacific Institute and … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Mamberamo

Posted on November 20, 2012 by pacificinstitute

In the latest issue of The Conversation, Manuel Boissière and Michael Padmanaba have a short article (including video) on their mapping work among local communities in the Mamberamo region of West Papua.

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AAA Conference 2012 (Pacific-related papers)

Posted on November 19, 2012 by pacificinstitute

The 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has just been held in San Francisco with the theme Borders and Crossings (November 14-18). This year’s program had 717 sessions, 34 workshops, 13 innovents and 183 special events. The … Continue reading →

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New field manual for documenting the social impacts of conservation interventions

Posted on November 19, 2012 by pacificinstitute

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an integral component of local, national, and international strategies for biodiversity conservation, but their contribution to sustainable development remains contested. To provide conservation practitioners and policymakers with robust evidence on the social and ecological impacts … Continue reading →

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Deploying the Village Base Station in Papua

Posted on November 19, 2012 by pacificinstitute

An innovative new mobile phone technology (for GSM networks) is being trialled with a primary school in the central highlands of West Papua, Indonesia. Read more on the blog of the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) group at … Continue reading →

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Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding scholarships for women (applications due 30 Nov. 2012)

Posted on November 12, 2012 by pacificinstitute

Please note that changes to the submission deadline (now 15 December 2012) and additional information for applicants is on a more recent post to Outrigger. The Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding (PCP) is offering (16) scholarships to qualified women from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, … Continue reading →

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Congratulations, Dr Kylie McKenna!

Posted on October 29, 2012 by pacificinstitute

By Prof. John Braithwaite, RegNet, School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy. Kylie McKenna was awarded her PhD in October 2012 for a sweeping work entitled “Interdependent Engagement: Corporate Social Responsibility in Bougainville and Papua”. Her PhD was the result of … Continue reading →

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Launch of the ANU Southeast Asia Institute (23 October 2012)

Posted on October 29, 2012 by pacificinstitute

The ANU’s Southeast Asia Institute was launched last Tuesday: “The primary scope of the Institute covers Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam, as well as ASEAN as the major regional organization, with … Continue reading →

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The Diplomacy Of Decolonisation

Posted on October 26, 2012 by pacificinstitute

In his latest post to NewMatilda.com, Nic Maclellan argues that Australia may have to address renewed demands for decolonisation from the region when it assumes its seat on the United Nations Security Council in 2013. [Read Maclellan’s follow-up post to New Matilda, Siding … Continue reading →

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Pacific Buzz (October 3): Pacific leaders at UN General Assembly | Setback for Fiji rehabilitation | PNG ready to raise West Papua issue… and more

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Devpolicy-PiPP

A fortnightly roundup of policy news in the Pacific by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy and the Development Policy Centre. Condolences on the passing of Chronox Manek, Chief Ombudsman of Papua New Guinea. POLITICS Pacific leaders at UN General Assembly In the first meeting of its kind, United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon met Pacific Island Forum leaders on the sidelines of the 67th UN General Assembly in New York. Mr Ban emphasised [...] Continue reading →

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Peace builder wins Future Justice Prize

Posted on October 2, 2012 by pacificinstitute

Distinguished Professor John Braithwaite has won the 2012 Future Justice Prize for his extraordinary efforts and internationally-renowned work in the fields of justice and peacebuilding [read more]. Of particular interest to Pacific scholars will be John Braithwaite’s ambitious Peacebuilding Compared project, which has … Continue reading →

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Fifty years on, Australia’s Papua policy is still failing

Posted on September 28, 2012 by pacificinstitute

Richard Chauvel’s latest post to Inside Story suggests that the Australian government is missing an important strategic opportunity to help Indonesian President Yudhoyono develop a long-term solution to the Papua ‘problem’ [For more context, see Filep Karma and the fight for Papua’s future, Chauvel’s … Continue reading →

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Governing New Guinea: An oral history of Papuan administrators, 1950-1990 (by Leontine Visser)

Posted on September 19, 2012 by pacificinstitute

[Text taken from the KITLV website.] This is the first time that indigenous Papuan administrators share with an international public their experiences governing their country. These administrators were the brokers of development. After graduating from the School for Indigenous Administrators (OSIBA) they … Continue reading →

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Australia accused of link to human rights abuses in West Papua

Posted on August 29, 2012 by pacificinstitute

On 27 and 28 August, ABC’s 7:30 ran a news feature which raised grave concerns that Australian government support for counter-terrorism in Indonesia is linked to torture and extrajudicial killings in West Papua. Read a follow-up opinion piece on Australia’s West Papua … Continue reading →

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Drawn from Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise

Posted on August 20, 2012 by pacificinstitute

Drawn from Paradise is David Attenborough’s journey through the cultural history of the birds of paradise, one of the most exquisite and extravagant, colourful and intriguing families of birds. From the moment they were introduced to the European mind in … Continue reading →

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LLMAP: New Guinea mainland and related islands

Posted on July 23, 2012 by pacificinstitute

The Language and Location Map Annotation Project has now digitised many of the regional language maps by Emeritus Professor Darrell Tryon published in The Atlas of the World’s Languages (2007). See New Guinea, Solomon Islands & Bougainville, The Philippines, Borneo, Malaysia, Vanuatu & … Continue reading →

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Workshop on the languages of Southern New Guinea

Posted on July 19, 2012 by pacificinstitute

by Christian Döhler, PhD Candidate, Linguistics, School of Culture, History and Language. Earlier this week, a three day workshop took place as part of the ‘Languages of Southern New Guinea’ project. The project aims to produce descriptive material on a … Continue reading →

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Melanesian Masterpieces (NGA talk, 24 July)

Posted on July 17, 2012 by pacificinstitute

Tuesday 24 July, 12.45 pm Melanesian Gallery, National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place, Canberra Crispin Howarth, Curator, Pacific Arts, discusses two works from Lake Sentani, West Papua, the 19th-century double-figure Le lys (The lily) and the early 20th Century bark cloth Maro.

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“Enough Is Enough!” Testimonies of Papuan Women Victims of Violence and Human Rights Violations 1963–2009

Posted on June 5, 2012 by pacificinstitute

[new English translation] by the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), the Women Commission, and the Women Working Group of Papuan People Assembly (Indonesia). “We women of Papua have been bruised, cornered, besieged from all directions. We are not safe at … Continue reading →

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Big plans for Papua (Indonesia)

Posted on June 2, 2012 by pacificinstitute

Down To Earth (DTE) special feature, May 2012 [read more].

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Congratulations Dr Hilary Howes!

Posted on May 15, 2012 by pacificinstitute

by Dr Bronwen Douglas, School of Culture, History & Language. At the ANU graduation ceremony in December 2011, Hilary Howes was awarded a PhD for her thesis entitled “‘The Race Question in Oceania’: A.B. Meyer and Otto Finsch between metropolitan … Continue reading →

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Talk and art exhibition on New Guinea

Posted on March 20, 2012 by pacificinstitute

Getting Lost in Niugini: An illustrated talk about people, life, art, nature and change in West Papua and Papua New Guinea through the lens of Robert Hewat. Paradisaea Papuana Exhibition: Traditional and Contemporary Art of West Papua and PNG. Fo … Continue reading →

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