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West Papua (province)

Index West Papua (province)

West Papua (Papua Barat) is a province of Indonesia. [1]

86 relations: Act of Free Choice, Ambonese, Amnesty International, Arfak Mountains Regency, Balinese people, Bantenese people, Batak, Betawi people, Bintuni, Bird's Head Peninsula, Bomberai Peninsula, Buddhism, Bugis, Butonese people, Catholic Church, Chinese Indonesians, Consensus decision-making, Dayak people, Dominggus Mandacan, Dutch East Indies, Ethnic group, Fakfak, Fakfak Regency, Fef, Indonesia, Free Papua Movement, George Monbiot, Gorontaloan people, Hinduism, Human Development Index, Human Rights Watch, Indonesia, Indonesian language, Islam, Javanese people, Kaimana, Kaimana Regency, Lampung people, Language, List of Indonesian provinces by Human Development Index, List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, List of rivers of West Papua, List of sovereign states, Lonely Planet, Madurese people, Makassar people, Manokwari, Manokwari Regency, Maybrat Regency, Melanesian Spearhead Group, Melanesians, ..., Minahasan people, Minangkabau people, National Security Archive, New Guinea, New International, North Kalimantan, Northern Hemisphere, Papua (province), Papua conflict, Papuan people, Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey through the forbidden lands of West Papua, Protestantism, Provinces of Indonesia, Raja Ampat Islands, Raja Ampat Regency, Rasiei, Rowman & Littlefield, Sasak people, Sorong (city), Sorong Regency, South Manokwari Regency, South Sorong Regency, Southern Hemisphere, Statistics Indonesia, Sundanese people, Tambrauw Regency, Teluk Bintuni Regency, Teluk Wondama Regency, Teminabuan, Time in Indonesia, Tobelo people, Toraja, United Liberation Movement for West Papua, Vehicle registration plates of Indonesia, Waisai, Western New Guinea. Expand index (36 more) »

Act of Free Choice

The Act of Free Choice (Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat, PEPERA, Determination of the People's Opinion), often disparagingly referred to as the "Act of No Choice", was a series of eight regional assemblies from July to August 1969 by which Indonesia asserts that the Western New Guinea population decided to relinquish their sovereignty in favor of Indonesian citizenship.

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Ambonese

The Ambonese, also known as South Moluccans, are an Indonesian ethnic group of mixed Austronesian-Papuan origin.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Arfak Mountains Regency

Arfak Mountains Regency (Kabupaten Pegunungan Arfak) is a regency of the West Papua Province of Indonesia.

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Balinese people

The Balinese (Indonesian: Suku Bali) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Bali.

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Bantenese people

The Bantenese are a distinct subgroup of the Sundanese people, native to Banten Province on the island of Java.

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Batak

Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia who speak Batak languages.

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Betawi people

Betawi people or Betawis (Orang Betawi in Indonesian, meaning "people of Batavia") are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the city of Jakarta and its immediate outskirts, as such often described as the native inhabitants of the city.

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Bintuni

Bintuni (Dutch: Steenkool) is a small town in West Papua, Indonesia and seat of the Teluk Bintuni Regency.

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Bird's Head Peninsula

The Bird's Head Peninsula (Indonesian: Kepala Burung, Vogelkop) or Doberai Peninsula is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea and the major part of the Province of West Papua, Indonesia.

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Bomberai Peninsula

Bomberai Peninsula is located on the Western New Guinea region at the opposite south of the Bird's Head Peninsula in South East Asia.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Bugis

The Buginese people are an ethnic group—the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, in the southwestern province of Sulawesi, third largest island of Indonesia.

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Butonese people

The Butonese (sometimes Butuni, Butung or Wolio) people is a generic term that embraces a number of sub-ethnic groups from Buton and its neighbouring islands in Southeast Sulawesi.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chinese Indonesians

Chinese Indonesians (Indonesian: Orang Tionghoa-Indonesia) are Indonesians descended from various Chinese ethnic groups, primarily the Han Chinese.

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Consensus decision-making

Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which group members develop, and agree to support a decision in the best interest of the whole.

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Dayak people

The Dayak or Dyak or Dayuh are the native people of Borneo.

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Dominggus Mandacan

Dominggus Mandacan is an Indonesian politician and the current governor of West Papua.

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Dutch East Indies

The Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands East-Indies; Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Hindia Belanda) was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia.

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Ethnic group

An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.

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Fakfak

Fakfak is a town in Indonesia and seat of the Fakfak Regency.

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Fakfak Regency

Fakfak Regency - formerly spelt "Fak-Fak" - is a regency of West Papua province of Indonesia.

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Fef, Indonesia

Fef (also known as peef) a town in Tambrauw Regency, West Papua, Indonesia.

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Free Papua Movement

The Free Papua Movement (Organisasi Papua Merdeka - OPM) is an umbrella term for the independence movement established during 1965 in the West Papuan or West New Guinea territory which is currently being administrated by Indonesia as the provinces of Papua and West Papua, also formerly known as Papua, Irian Jaya and West Irian.

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George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental, political activism.

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Gorontaloan people

Gorontaloan or Hulandalo / Hulandalo people are the native people to the northern part of Sulawesi.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic (composite index) of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Indonesian language

Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia) is the official language of Indonesia.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Javanese people

The Javanese (Ngoko Javanese:, Madya Javanese:,See: Javanese language: Politeness Krama Javanese:, Ngoko Gêdrìk: wòng Jåwå, Madya Gêdrìk: tiyang Jawi, Krama Gêdrìk: priyantun Jawi, Indonesian: suku Jawa) are an ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Java.

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Kaimana

Kaimana is a small port town in West Papua, Indonesia and capital of the Kaimana Regency.

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Kaimana Regency

Kaimana Regency is a regency in the south of West Papua province of Indonesia.

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Lampung people

The Lampung people, also commonly referred to as Ulun Lampung, are an ethnic group indigenous to Lampung province and parts of South Sumatra province of the southern and central region that occupy areas such as Martapura, Muaradua at upstream of Komering River, Kayu Agung, Tanjung Raja at downstream of Komering River, Merpas on the southern side of Bengkulu province, as well as Cikoneng in the southwest coast of Banten province, Indonesia.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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List of Indonesian provinces by Human Development Index

List of Indonesian provinces by HDI is in order of the HDI of Indonesian provinces.

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List of regencies and cities of Indonesia

This is the list of regencies and cities of Indonesia.

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List of rivers of West Papua

List of rivers flowing in the province of West Papua of Western New Guinea, which is in the territory of Indonesia.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book publisher in the world.

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Madurese people

The Madurese (sometimes Madurace or Madhure) also known as Orang Madura and Suku Madura in Indonesian are an ethnic group originally from the island of Madura now found in many parts of Indonesia, where they are the third-largest ethnic group by population.

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Makassar people

The Makassar people (also known as Mangasara, Mengkasara, Macassar, Taena, Tena, or Gowa) are an ethnic group that inhabits the southern part of the South Peninsula, Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) in Indonesia.

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Manokwari

Manokwari is a town in Indonesia and the capital of the province of West Papua, at the western end of New Guinea.

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Manokwari Regency

Manokwari Regency is a regency of West Papua, Indonesia.

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Maybrat Regency

Maybrat Regency is a regency of West Papua Province of Indonesia.

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Melanesian Spearhead Group

The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) is an intergovernmental organization, composed of the four Melanesian states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front of New Caledonia.

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Melanesians

Melanesians are the predominant indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia.

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Minahasan people

The Minahasans (alternative spelling: Minahassa or Mina hasa) are an ethnic group located in the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia, formerly known as North Celebes.

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Minangkabau people

Minangkabau people (Minangkabau: Urang Minang; Indonesian: Suku Minang; Jawi script: اورڠ مينڠ), also known as Minang, are an ethnic group indigenous to the Minangkabau Highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia.

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National Security Archive

The National Security Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive is an investigative journalism center, open government advocate, international affairs research institute, and is the largest repository of declassified U.S. documents outside the federal government.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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New International

The New International is a magazine of Marxist theory published first by the Socialist Workers Party of the United States (SWP) from 1934 to 1940, then by the Workers Party from 1940 to 1958, and then revived by the SWP since 1983.

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North Kalimantan

North Kalimantan (Kalimantan Utara) is a province of Indonesia.

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Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

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Papua (province)

Papua is the largest and easternmost province of Indonesia, comprising most of Western New Guinea.

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Papua conflict

The Papua conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Indonesian government and portions of the indigenous populations of Western New Guinea (Papua) in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua on the island of New Guinea in which the Indonesian government has been accused of conducting a genocidal campaign against the indigenous inhabitants.

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Papuan people

Papuan people are the various indigenous peoples of New Guinea and neighbouring islands, speakers of the Papuan languages.

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Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey through the forbidden lands of West Papua

Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey through the forbidden lands of West Papua is a 1989 book by British writer and environmental and political activist, George Monbiot.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Provinces of Indonesia

The Provinces of Indonesia are the 34 largest subdivisions of the country and the highest tier of the local government (Daerah Tingkat I – level I region).

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Raja Ampat Islands

Located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia's West Papua province, Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo, and the smaller island of Kofiau.

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Raja Ampat Regency

Raja Ampat Regency is a regency of West Papua province of Indonesia.

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Rasiei

Rasiei is a village which is the administrative centre of the district of Rasiey, in Wondama Bay Regency of West Papua province of Indonesia.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.

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Sasak people

The Sasak people live mainly on the island of Lombok, Indonesia, numbering around 3.6 million (85% of Lombok's population).

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Sorong (city)

Sorong is a chartered coastal city in the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua.

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Sorong Regency

Sorong Regency (Kabupaten Sorong) is a regency of West Papua Province of Indonesia.

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South Manokwari Regency

South Manokwari Regency is a regency of West Papua Province of Indonesia.

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South Sorong Regency

South Sorong Regency (Sorong Selatan) is a regency of West Papua Province of Indonesia.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Statistics Indonesia

Statistics Indonesia, known in Indonesia as BPS (or Badan Pusat Statistik, the Indonesian translation of Central Agency on Statistics), is a non-departmental government institute of Indonesia that is responsible for conducting statistical surveys.

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Sundanese people

The Sundanese (Sundanese:, Urang Sunda) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the western part of the Indonesian island of Java.

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Tambrauw Regency

Tambrauw Regency is a regency of West Papua, Indonesia.

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Teluk Bintuni Regency

Teluk Bintuni Regency (or Bintuni Bay Regency) is a regency of West Papua Province of Indonesia.

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Teluk Wondama Regency

Teluk Wondama Regency or Wondama Bay Regency (Kabupaten Teluk Wondama) is a regency of West Papua province of Indonesia.

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Teminabuan

Teminabuan is a small town in South Sorong Regency, West Papua, Indonesia.

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Time in Indonesia

The Indonesian archipelago geographically stretches across four time zones from UTC+7 in Aceh to UTC+9 in Western Papua.

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Tobelo people

Tobelo people is one of the northern Halmahera peoples living in eastern Indonesia, in the northern part of the Maluku Islands and in the eastern side of North Halmahera Regency.

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Toraja

The Toraja are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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United Liberation Movement for West Papua

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) unites the three main political independence movements seeking independence for Western New Guinea (West Papua) under a single umbrella organisation.

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Vehicle registration plates of Indonesia

All motorized vehicles including motorcycles in Indonesia are required to have registration plates.

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Waisai

Waisai is a town in the west of the island of Waigeo in the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia.

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Western New Guinea

Western New Guinea, also known as Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) and West Papua, is the part of the island of New Guinea (also known as Papua) annexed by Indonesia in 1962.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Papua_(province)

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