INDONESIA: Freedom for Aceh and West Papua!

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JAKARTA — On September 27, the first action of a new alliance between Acehnese, Papuan and Indonesian activists took place. The Papuan Students Alliance, the Acehnese People's Democratic Resistance Front, the Referendum Information Centre and the People's Solidarity Movement for Aceh held a demonstration outside the United Nations office in Jalan Thamrin, Jakarta. Yusuf Lakaseng, a leader of the Party of United Peoples Opposition (Popor), said the demonstration called for the end of martial law in Aceh and a stop to plans to divide Indonesian-occupied West Papua into three separate provinces.

From Green Left Weekly, October 15, 2003.
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