Tanah Papua, Asia-Pacific News Blind Spots and Citizen Media: From the ‘Act of Free Choice’ Betrayal to a Social Media Revolution

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aut.relation.articlenumber11en_NZ
aut.relation.endpage178
aut.relation.issue2en_NZ
aut.relation.journalPacific Journalism Reviewen_NZ
aut.relation.pages19
aut.relation.startpage159
aut.relation.volume23en_NZ
aut.researcherRobie, David
dc.contributor.authorRobie, Den_NZ
dc.contributor.editorCass, Pen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-23T23:55:36Z
dc.date.available2019-09-23T23:55:36Z
dc.date.copyright2017-11-30en_NZ
dc.date.issued2017-11-30en_NZ
dc.description.abstractFor five decades Tanah Papua, or the West Papua half of the island of New Guinea on the intersection of Asia and the Pacific, has been a critical issue for the region with a majority of the Melanesian population supporting self-determination, and ultimately independence. While being prepared for eventual post-war independence by the Dutch colonial authorities, Indonesian paratroopers and marines invaded the territory in 1962 in an ill-fated military expedition dubbed Operation Trikora (‘People’s Triple Command’). However, this eventually led to the so-called Act of Free Choice in 1969 under the auspices of the United Nations in a sham referendum dubbed by critics as an ‘Act of No Choice’ which has been disputed ever since as a legal basis for Indonesian colonialism. A low-level insurgency waged by the OPM (Free West Papua Movement) has also continued and Jakarta maintains its control through the politics of oppression and internal migration. For more than five decades, the legacy media in New Zealand have largely ignored this issue on their doorstep, preferring to give attention to Fiji and a so-called coup culture instead. In the past five years, social media have contributed to a dramatic upsurge of global awareness about West Papua but still the New Zealand legacy media have failed to take heed. This article also briefly introduces other Asia-Pacific political issues—such as Kanaky, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinean university student unrest, the militarisation of the Mariana Islands and the Pacific’s Nuclear Zero lawsuit against the nine nuclear powers—ignored by a New Zealand media that has no serious tradition of independent foreign correspondence.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationPacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 23(2), 159-178. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v23i2.334
dc.identifier.doi10.24135/pjr.v23i2.334en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1023-9499en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn2324-2035en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/12847
dc.languageEnglishen_NZ
dc.publisherPacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technologyen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/334/379en_NZ
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectCitizen mediaen_NZ
dc.subjectForeign correspondenceen_NZ
dc.subjectIndependenceen_NZ
dc.subjectIndonesiaen_NZ
dc.subjectInsurgencyen_NZ
dc.subjectMedia 'blind spots'en_NZ
dc.subjectNews mediaen_NZ
dc.subjectNew Zealanden_NZ
dc.subjectPapuaen_NZ
dc.subjectPostcolonialismen_NZ
dc.subjectSelf-determinationen_NZ
dc.subjectSocial mediaen_NZ
dc.subjectWest Papuaen_NZ
dc.titleTanah Papua, Asia-Pacific News Blind Spots and Citizen Media: From the ‘Act of Free Choice’ Betrayal to a Social Media Revolutionen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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