#Situation in West Papua

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iron orbit
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A place to document goings on in West Papua - I know there are a few people that are interested in the region

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I saw this a couple of days ago
It is purported that hundreds of non-Papuan Indonesians were evacuated from Yahukimo on the 16th of March.
Many were worried that it could signal military operations against the TPNPB in the highlands and on the 18th Indonesian forces raided several villages and arrested seven civilians including one boy.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1636338193888059394

Veronica Koman 許愛茜 (@VeronicaKoman)

Hundreds of non-Papuan Indonesians were evacuated out of Yahukimo with a military aircraft this afternoon (16/3/22). Locals report that the aircraft carried in troops and military equipments.

Many are worried that a military operation by Indonesian forces is imminent.

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I haven't geolocated this as yet but it could possibly be Wamena airport.

iron orbit
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Site of the evacuation more likely to be Nop Goliath Dekai Airport

iron orbit
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Regarding the raids from the 18th, there is not much information but speaking to an Indonesian researcher about the location I was told the following.

“Kilo 2 on the bridge until Barak Dalam”

Barak = bunkhouse (usually used in military context; Dekai is highly militarised town)

Dalam = inner

iron orbit
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FWIW, the evacuation was from Nop Goliath Dekai Airport (-4.853977, 139.485743)

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iron orbit
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Just a bit of background that I found on the Dekai evacuation and increased military presence - Indonesian carriers Wings Air and Trigana Air have suspended operations to Nop Goliat Dekai Airport in Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua, after rebel gunfire damaged a Trigana Air Boeing 737-500 carrying 66 passengers on Saturday.

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2023-03-13/trigana-air-boeing-737-takes-gunfire-papuan-rebels

Aviation International News
Trigana Air Boeing 737 Takes Gunfire from Papuan Rebels

Gunfire prompts local carriers to suspend operations to Nop Goliat Dekai Airport in Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua.

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@shrewd stump

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@lean goblet

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Things have been quiet regarding the kidnapping of New Zealander and Susi Air pilot, Philip Merhtens for the past week.
From what I can gather the Indonesian military have been focussing on the Nduga and Lanny Jaya regencies and say the TNI knows the whereabouts of the rebel group but the NZ govt has told them to hold off, preferring to negotiate.

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https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-papua-separatists-new-zealand-kidnapped-pilot-d9d8c99010830958d5e113a8857339f0

AP NEWS
Papua rebels release videos showing kidnapped NZ pilot alive

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s Papua province released more photos and videos Friday appearing to show the New Zealand pilot they took hostage last month alive. In a video distributed Friday by rebel spokesperson Sebby Sambom, a man wearing a blue jacket is identified as Philip Mark Mehrtens of Christchurch, a pilot ...

lean goblet
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Think i’m gonna try and geolocate this when i have some time in the weekend/tonight

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Lot of easy clues

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Posting mostly to FYI cause that’s pretty bad

iron orbit
iron orbit
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Kinda poking around here at the moment...getting other footage is obviously impossible but there are some photos of the funeral in neighbouring villages.

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lean goblet
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So yeah that region sounds about right

lean goblet
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The bit straight ahead looks like a great match

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But when he looks to the right things get annoying

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That’s a very specific ridgeline

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But not really visible on peakvisor

lean goblet
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The main issue with the straight ahead view is greenery

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It should be green on the left side, not the right side

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Sentinel confirms, however, that it’s still like the google earth footage

lean goblet
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Hmm i think i found yenggerok, it’s on the other side of the hill you looked at

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Which would make the forestry be the right way around

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But then the ridges dont match anymore

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But yeah it’s probably there (somewhere around that mountain), just would need to confirm the ridgelines

iron orbit
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Yeah although I only put a limited amount of time into it, I have a few concerns with this as well.
The watercourse and peak in the left background seems a pretty good fit, though they are at a lower altitude, just about at stream level and closer to the domed peak in the centre.
The greenery I'm not too worried about....I had a brief look at Peakvisor and that just confused me more.
I couldn't find Yenggerok in the time I had....I was searching around for some humanitarian assoc maps but to no avail....I'll have a look at some topos later today.

lean goblet
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Search yenggerok and you get 2 images that show those houses

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But i cant access those sites

iron orbit
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I'll have a look for that unit patch today.
I've seen KOSTRAD mentioned + TNI-POLRI in various posts.
Main patch on the chest seems to have a red baton in the centre of it.... black sleeve patch harder to define.

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shrewd stump
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Good work, @iron orbit

iron orbit
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Sleeve patch looks like it could be a black and white skull and crossbones..... the right flag at this KOSTRAD 323 Yonif Raider parade is similar but that main patch doesn't match.
I'm sure that skull stuff is fairly commonplace though.

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shrewd stump
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The victim according to some people was 12 years old.

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Could be me but he looks older than twelve, imho.

iron orbit
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There was some video footage of the Wamena incident floating around last week of the young Papuan girl and the two Indonesian stallholders that tried to abduct her... the Police were questioning them in public in a crowd and then it just kicked off.
I haven't geolocated the unrest but it is alleged to have taken place around the Simakma market near -4.104963, 138.931247
There is some really clear footage of a TNI soldier shooting straight into the crowd that would be perfect to drill down into and investigate.

shrewd stump
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I also saw a messed up video pass by of Indonesian soldiers suffocating a Papuan by putting a snake on his neck. Didn’t finish it but that’s horrible.

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Not sharing in here. It’s bad and somewhere inside.

iron orbit
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shrewd stump
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So not really possible of geolocating.

shrewd stump
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Pogromites putting houses with families inside is evil, so is strangling someone with a snake.

rough terrace
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Jesus Christ you guys

iron orbit
lean goblet
iron orbit
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Old topo map index

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lean goblet
iron orbit
lean goblet
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Yeah i noticed when looking for yenggerok

iron orbit
lean goblet
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Lot of lists, not a lot of maps

iron orbit
iron orbit
iron orbit
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Different spelling? but it looks like you could be right about Yenggerok being behind that dome feature.

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lean goblet
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Oh yeah just noticed it also shows up on google maps as jengerrok

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One house at least

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The village itself isnt actually marked

iron orbit
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@lean goblet - Wameka Footage from late-February riot

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Ah yup those

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though that youtube video is new

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they are looking N at the start of the video

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oh yeah your coordinates are correct

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right colour and shape roofs and on the correct side of the street

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well you have them on the road but yea

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you said it got reported there, how did you find out it was exactly there?

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just satellite imagery for the marketplace or is there some sort of database/map marker

lean goblet
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the smoke we see at the end of the video was somewhere here it seems : -4,1036449, 138,9318153 (you can see that in the North there's the market place and its a bit E of where we're standing)

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which fits the round house we see burning that is a little bit west of that on the same open field, should be able to double check with sentinel but cba right now

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2:20am, maybe i should try to stop interrupting my study phases with this dogekek

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but yeah think that solves the hardest bit, the starting

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the bridge section should be pretty easy to find as well, but im not doing that tonight

iron orbit
shrewd stump
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Indonesian settlers…. Being someone who has roots there, is confronting to hear when having read and heard about Sukarno’s fight for independence in the past. However, there are more countries that we are busy with, that got hurt in the past but now inflict the same pain upon another peoples.

shrewd stump
iron orbit
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I’ll be looking into how to use satellite imagery for deforestation / mining activities.

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I was looking through the timeframe of West Papua.

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And saw companies popping out of the ground.

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This is one of them, who's aligned with HSBC, "a dirty banker"

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"Greenpeace released a report titled: “Dirty Bankers – How HSBC is Financing Forest Destruction for Palm Oil “. The report stated that in recent years, HSBC has begun or maintained a financial relationship (including providing or arranging loans) with companies and groups operating Palm Oil concessions in Indonesia associated with the most unsustainable aspects of Palm Oil development."

iron orbit
shrewd stump
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# iron orbit Yeah absolutely mate... the corruption surrounding resources in West Papua is cr...

Next to them located is Capitol Group Indonesia: https://chainreactionresearch.com/the-chain-capitol-group-deforestation-raises-concerns-over-palm-oil-buyer-responses-and-fmcg-material-reputation-risk/

Chain Reaction Research
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The Chain: Capitol Group Deforestation Raises Concerns Over Palm Oi...

A recent article in Mongabay highlighted deforestation by Capitol Group in Indonesia and the lack of transparency and consistency in how companies with No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (N…

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This is some neo-colonization.

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"In 2004, Lukas Gilik and Bernadus Gilik proposed the establishment of a new village
to PT Henrison Inti Persada (HIP), which had opened an oil palm plantation in the
Gisim clan area. Furthermore, PT HIP forwarded the village proposal to the subdistrict government. After obtaining approval at the sub-district level, Lukas and Bernadus began to build houses and church service posts. At first, the new village
was named Lilimussemen which later changed to Malalilis."

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"Malalilis village as the assisted village of PT HIP actually presents a very alarming
situation. PT HIP's contribution to the Malalilis community was only an elementary
school building, and two houses for the Gilik and Klasibin families who also
customary landowners who had released their lands for oil palm plantations. Some
fundamental aspects that are very concerning are (1) availability of clean water, (2)
availability of electricity, and (3) road conditions."

shrewd stump
lean goblet
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imagine that wherever i said N here meant W

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lol

shrewd stump
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Wamena*

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Which is close to one of yours.

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Which one and where? @shrewd stump

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lean goblet
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Ah yup

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A Papuan has responded to us, @iron orbit, @lean goblet.

Warning for lurkers: their follow up tweet has images of the child victim.

shrewd stump
# iron orbit There was some video footage of the Wamena incident floating around last week of...

This the video, I think: https://twitter.com/andreasharsono/status/1629616981451366400?s=46&t=6Sn-YGNglfw_u6qQZWxDFg

Andreas Harsono (@andreasharsono)

Video showed a Papua boy who talked about how he was asked to go into a truck with an Indonesian salesman in a market in Wamena. It triggered rumors that the man was trying to kidnap the boy https://t.co/8wBNgVc5tV

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We also still have this footage:

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Earlier also shared by @iron orbit: https://twitter.com/albertsamuel28/status/1630458181791932416?s=46&t=6Sn-YGNglfw_u6qQZWxDFg

Alsa Papua (@albertsamuel28)

Dandim Jayawijaya, sebelumnya, klaim bahwa TNI tdk terlibat dalam tragedi kemanusiaan 23/02/23, Wamena. Namun, fakta lapangan yg tersingkap berbeda 360° dengan klaim Dandim Jayawijaya.

Ini penting bagi @jokowi bersama @KomnasHAM untuk mengungkap kasus ini agar menjadi terang.

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lean goblet
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Looks like it

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At least the rough region

shrewd stump
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But still with a little doubt.

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However then we can double check before confirmation.

lean goblet
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yeah sounds good

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ill be mostly looking for the blue roofs in the double check

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ill go look around for the bridge while you do the paint

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looks like some of the twitter videos are closer to the bridge than the market place

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such as the army marching

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lean goblet
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seems possible but what about those other buildings we can see?

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they look kind of hidden behind trees in the satellite footage

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEiknWEE8FQ 2:14 has another view here of the blue building btw

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lean goblet
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ah no it isnt, look at teh grey building before the yellow line (purple)

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there is a lower level roof left of it

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quite big

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but not visible on the satellite footage

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easier to see in this youtube video

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lean goblet
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unless its new build

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and the roof shape of the grey/blue building with the yellow line is different in the youtube video (there is no hard edge but rather another downward sloped section again)

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so i wouldnt post it anywhere just yet

shrewd stump
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Let me*

lean goblet
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yeah

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there are a couple shots of it from other angles as well

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also later on

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just skip through o fit

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can see a distinguishing roof on the back of the field at 2:34

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clearer at 3:05

shrewd stump
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Ah yeah

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What is this? A space shuttle?

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lean goblet
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might be a church? @iron orbit

shrewd stump
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First I'm putting all the geolocations in Atlos.

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FYI youtube is by far the best source of videos @shrewd stump

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a lot of these news agencies have way more photos and videos than we can find on social media

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lean goblet
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found one image of the police blocking a road

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well junction

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pretty much at the market place

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I’m gonna take a walk in the sun. Bbl.

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@shrewd stump can you add me to the West Papua project in atlos

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doesnt show up for me at least

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Added

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thanks

iron orbit
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shrewd stump
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Timeframe of the mine that @lean goblet geolocated.

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On 30-06-2022 there seems to be activity at the dock.

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Also the large path af the right which you didn't see in 2020 and now do see in 2023.

shrewd stump
iron orbit
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Palembang.... That's where my dad comes from.

shrewd stump
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Seems the Senggi region has a lot of illegal gold mining, @iron orbit: https://westpapuatabloid.org/mine-excavation-c-threatens-sutet-towers-and-west-papuas-protected-forest.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mine-excavation-c-threatens-sutet-towers-and-west-papuas-protected-forest

West Papua Tabloid English Version
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MINE EXCAVATION C THREATENS SUTET TOWERS AND WEST PAPUA’S PROTECTED...

SUTET towers are feared to collapse if excavation C activities at the site continue to operate, This was revealed in the Coordination

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Yes... there's a lot of news articles on illegal ming activities and supposed 'crackdowns'

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Out for a run now. BBL. Great start thus far, @lean goblet / @iron orbit

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https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/local-media-reports-provided-a-rich-seam-of-evidence-in-a-data-poor-environment/

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How we built a database of conflicts driven by Indonesia’s palm oil...

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https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:6469258/mmsi:525000020/imo:0/vessel:KRI BAC 593

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Ship KRI BAC 593 (Military Ops) Registered in Indonesia - Vessel de...

Vessel KRI BAC 593 is a Military Ops, Registered in Indonesia. Discover the vessel's particulars, including capacity, machinery, photos and ownership. Get the details of the current Voyage of KRI BAC 593 including Position, Port Calls, Destination, ETA and Distance travelled - IMO 0, MMSI 525000020, Call Sign WU4

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No recent data.

iron orbit
shrewd stump
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Looking the Earth Engine App from the University of Maryland on the geolocation from @lean goblet on the illegal gold mining site and you'll see the deforestation here:

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A lot of deforestation at the coordinates which probably strengthen the fact that there's illegal activity there that does environmental damage.

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Is it a predictive model or does it analyse old footage and compares it to now?

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Cause i thought that the warehouses were actually quite old

shrewd stump
# lean goblet Is it a predictive model or does it analyse old footage and compares it to now?

Results from time-series analysis of Landsat images characterizing forest extent and change.

Trees are defined as vegetation taller than 5m in height and are expressed as a percentage per output grid cell as ‘2000 Percent Tree Cover’. ‘Forest Cover Loss’ is defined as a stand-replacement disturbance, or a change from a forest to non-forest state, during the period 2000–2021. ‘Forest Cover Gain’ is defined as the inverse of loss, or a non-forest to forest change entirely within the period 2000–2012. ‘Forest Loss Year’ is a disaggregation of total ‘Forest Loss’ to annual time scales.

Reference 2000 and 2021 imagery are median observations from a set of quality assessment-passed growing season observations.

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Ah from 2000 on

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Makes sense

shrewd stump
shrewd stump
# lean goblet Ah from 2000 on

If you want to predictively kind-of attempt to see illegal mining activity, an option is to cross-reference articles towards sightings of deforestation on satellite imagery.

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@shrewd stump did you mean since?

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Or was it actually all in 2000

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Funny coincidence if it started the year they started collecting the data

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lean goblet
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just scrolling around the 20th of march to see what i can find in terms of random planes

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A: why are there so many 737's around papua registered to san marino? maybe worth checking out wtf is going on there

shrewd stump
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Also important to note: Freeport mine is US-owned.

lean goblet
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military scout plane perhaps? (question would then be, wtf are they scouting)

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apparently this is a common theme

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lot of random routes over PNG by planes

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but they're usually not identified/only the type

shrewd stump
# shrewd stump Also important to note: Freeport mine is US-owned.

https://twitter.com/papuaweb/status/1635467663551119361?s=46&t=6Sn-YGNglfw_u6qQZWxDFg

Lewis Prai Wellip : West Papuan Diplomat (@PapuaWeb)

West Papua: The 1967 business contract signed between Indonesia government and Freeport McMoRan Officials was ILLEGAL because the indigenous Papuans who are the rightful owners of land were NEVER CONSULTED. They did not consented to this illegal agreement where their land was…

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im gonna ask if anyone can identify the one we saw in the footage

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lean goblet
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yup

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Heh, on the 13th it went to Cairns, AU

shrewd stump
fading talon
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i didnt check all of them cause time but yeah

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a lot also have big gaps in their history probably from bad coverage

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but a bunch of random routes

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i reached out to @stuck quail in the project owl server to ask for the helicopter on the footage but might as well do a lil ping here now that we're looking at planes

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If we know the date and helicopter parking at places, I can purchase satellite imagery from SkyFi if available

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That plane's activity is very much centered around Goroka's airport, so the most significant thing I see is that trip ti AU

lean goblet
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coverage over WP is pretty damn limited

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Still so many weird patterns

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and i doubt they're going to fly the heli all the way to another island

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It's like if it turned off the transponder at so many locations

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fading talon
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The only other location I've found so far is Cairns

lean goblet
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if its a random training plane the patterns might make some more sense but then still why is it unidentifiable (and stuff like the gaps)

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and why would a training route including a flight to australia 💀

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There's a lot of flights that appear to and from port Moresby but the transponder is off anytime somewhat close to it

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Check leg 1

lean goblet
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also there are some small taiwanese planes popping up randomly

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not sure why there would be planes used only within papua registered to taiwan but alright

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@fading talon 3 trips to cairns, 16th as well

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and the 23d

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it flies to cairns a lot (but not regularly enough to be an airliner)

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private plane i guess?

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Yep, as I said it's like the moment it gets somewhat close to Port Moresby the transponder just goes off

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air niugini

fading talon
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Is it really the Fokker pictured this plane? Because according to that it's Air Niugini

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fading talon
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Which is Papua New Guinea's national airline

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look it up on FR24 it has tons of scheduled flights all over

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So it's just the transponder being wonky near Port Moresby?

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@lean goblet re:helicopter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_204%2F205

Bell 204/205

The Bell 204 and 205 are the civilian versions of the UH-1 Iroquois single-engine military helicopter of the Huey family of helicopters. They are type-certificated in the transport category and are used in a wide variety of applications, including crop dusting, cargo lifting and aerial firefighting.

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military transport, that explains why its making those small trips

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or just the one i linked here

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cause i saw the one linked here was a bell

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in these areas you get better results from fr24

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hmm ill check it out

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you only tagged me in a video

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sorry the video

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that's a bell?

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interesting

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yeah

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early gen, related to the Huey

lean goblet
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any clue how hard they are to acquire for civilians?

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no idea how uncommon they are in PNG

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indonesia

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actually

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the 204/205 is the civilian version, though

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lean goblet
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just looking at PNG right now cause it has more coverage on adsb

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the one from the video was used in west papua

stuck quail
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what are you looking for?

shrewd stump
# stuck quail what are you looking for?

If the helicopter used in the video, committing to illegal gold mining and doing environmental damage or doing that on land that is owned by the original Papuans — then that is quite ripe for an investigation.

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just trying to see if we can find it en route to somewhere

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see where it lands

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ah

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just visualise their operation a bit more in general

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any chance you know the code for filtering by Bell's ? @stuck quail

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is it just something like B204

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but sounds like that would imply boeing 204

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which is not quite going to work

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oh nvm found where to look

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UH1

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so just the general family, fair enough

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you said it's from indonesia right?

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lean goblet
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Yup got there through some clicking

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stuck quail
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unfortunately their civil aircraft register is in PDF form

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but that's everything that was registered as of 2019

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i couldn't find a newer version

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thanks

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no 204 or 205's listed

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couple of other bells

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lot of 206 and 212

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does look a bit like a 212

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should i make a list of private (non airline) bell heli owners?

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@shrewd stump

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lean goblet
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@stuck quail could it be other bell models/which ones?

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or is the 204/205 very characteristic

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there are a couple variants of the 204/205 it could be

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212, 214

lean goblet
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alright

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hmm, one company has this listed in their about us
Sayap Garuda Indah (SGI) is an Indonesian based, and incorporated company whose primary activity is the provision of Rotary and Fixed Wing aviation services to the Mining, Tourism and Corporate VIP sectors.

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another one as well

lean goblet
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as thats the other biggest category

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so easy if its just strikable

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seems like most of these civilian companies work with the mining industry

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makes sense

stuck quail
shrewd stump
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@stuck quail is our hero

lean goblet
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But better to double check

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Its too low was my impression

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striked out one or two operators beforehand because they focused on stuff like coral exports

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and managed to strike a few who had their fleet listed on social media so i could see that their B212s were yellow or smt like that

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of course might be newer aircraft/registered in other places than indonesia

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ill check a bit where they all fly on flightradar

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i wrote wrong colour scheme for ingtan but in reality they also dont claim to have any 212s, only 206s

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which are of a different scheme

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I’d check flightradar for any helicopters in the area around 19-21 march but it keeps error’ing for me

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Halting it for now since we might be getting some more info soon

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Though feel free to check yourself

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More on Wamena, do we have the shooting vid geolocated yet? Else I’ll give it a try tomorrow

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Found it @shrewd stump

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or well the image you sent

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not per se any shooting in there

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but does show where the smoke is at so thats useful

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Then this is close

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not that one yet, but id check a bit north from my coords

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seems like the smoke is there

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there are more spots with smoke obv, but also there

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Hmm i dont think its the shooting @shrewd stump

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Very urban area where the smoke should be

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well maybe there's one potential street

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But doesnt look like it

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Time to try some humint lol

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Looks unnecessarily far from the region of the traffickers but who knows

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Most likely something unrelated but just as shady

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According to Head of Public Relations of the Papua Regional Police , Kombes Ignatius Benny Ady Prabowo, the status of Puncak Jaya Regency is now on 'Alert Level 1' after a shooting at the Al Amaliah Mosque in Ilu last night (-3.701222, 138.198793) .... three TNI/Polri personnel were shot (2 x dead, 1 x critical condition) by two armed assailants.

https://jubi.id/tanah-papua/2023/pasca-baku-tembak-kabupaten-puncak-jaya-siaga-satu

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Pasca Baku Tembak, Kabupaten Puncak Jaya Siaga Satu | Jubi.id

“Situasi saat ini Siaga Satu. Kepala Kepolisian Resor Puncak Jaya dan seluruh anggota waspada dan mengantisipasi adanya serangan susulan terhadap anggota di

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Working geolocation possibility for the video posted above.... still needs some further work to confirm but it looks promising.

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According to this report TNI forces are said to have launched an assault against the TPNPB element holding NZ-born, Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens hostage last week in Nduga regency.....that would explain the retaliatory actions we've seen against the TNI over the last few days.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/486901/indonesian-security-forces-launch-attack-on-west-papuan-militant-group-holding-nz-pilot

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Indonesian security forces launch attack on West Papuan militant gr...

Indonesian security forces in West Papua launched an offensive against the West Papua Liberation Army command holding New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens hostage last week with several fatalities now being confirmed on both sides.

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https://en.jubi.id/papua-police-tries-to-contain-tpnpb-series-of-attacks/

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Papua Police tries to contain TPNPB series of attacks | West Papua ...

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Mathius D Fakhiri on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, said his party wanted to ensure that security disturbances in Puncak Jaya did not further widen. "For Puncak, we immediately do serious handling," he said. According to Fakhiri, security disturbances by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) h...

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https://en.jubi.id/student-charged-with-treason-after-calling-for-referendum-in-free-speech/

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Student charged with treason after calling for referendum in free s...

Jayapura, Jubi - The Jayapura District Court on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, has held a hearing to read out the charges against Yoseph Ernesto Matuan, a student of the University of Science and Technology Jayapura (USTJ), who was charged with treason for calling for a referendum and raising the Morning Star flag. The trial was

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https://www.indoleft.org/news/2023-04-02/nationalist-group-clashes-with-papuan-protesters-in-bali-several-injured.html

Nationalist group clashes with Papuan protesters in Bali, several i...

I Dewa Gede Rastana, Denpasar – A clash broke out between the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) Bali committee, which was intending to hold a demonstration articulating the issue of human rights, and the social organisation the Bali Nusantara Garuda Patriots (PGN) on Saturday April 1.

The incident, which occurred on Jalan Dr. Goris in the Balinese ...

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Police slammed for 'allowing' clash between Papuan protesters and n...

Aryo Mahendro, Denpasar – The Bali Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) has slammed the attitude of the police for allowing a clash to occur between the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) Bali and the social organisation (ormas) the Nusantara Garuda Patriots (PGN) Bali.

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https://en.jubi.id/church-still-records-arson-of-houses-and-arrests-of-residents-in-papuas-puncak/

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Church still records arson of houses and arrests of residents in Pa...

Jayapura, Jubi - The Regional Coordinator of the Kemah Injil Indonesia Church (GKII), Hans Wakerkwa, said that in late March to early April there were a number of house burnings and arrests of civilians in the pursuit of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) by the Indonesian Military (TNI) and Police in Puncak Regency,

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Hello, Indonesian here, for a bit of context, Damai Cartenz and Nemangkawi are kinda different; Damai Cartenz is mainly focusing on stabilisation operation and Nemangkawi is a COIN task force to hunt TPNPB/OPM

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I will try to explain about ORBAT of Nemangkawi and Damai Cartenz as much as possible

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Indonesian Army SOF (possibly Grup 2 Kopassus) with a drone with mortar payload

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Not sure if he's a Nemangkawi or Damai Cartenz TF, but the patch is kinda interesting

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Another 300 Yonif Raiders heading to Papua as part of the Border Security Task Force (Satgas Pamtas).
https://indonesiadefense.com/akan-diberangkatkan-ke-papua-wakil-ksad-cek-kesiapan-prajurit-yonif-raider-300-brajawijaya/

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Akan Diberangkatkan ke Papua, Wakil KSAD Cek Kesiapan Prajurit Yoni...

Wakil Kepala Staf Angkatan Darat (KSAD) Letjen TNI Agus Subiyanto melakukan pengecekan kesiapan dan memberikan pengarahan kepada prajurit Yonif Raider 300/Brajawijaya yang akan melaksanakan tugas sebagai Satuan Tugas Pengamanan Perbatasan (Satgas Pamtas) di wilayah Papua, Senin, (3/4).

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https://www.indoleft.org/news/2023-04-07/papuan-student-rally-in-makassar-attacked-by-islamic-thugs-biker-gang.html

Papuan student rally in Makassar attacked by Islamic thugs, biker gang

Makassar – A demonstration by Papuan students commemorating 56 years of PT Freeport Indonesia in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar on April 7 was broken up by the Indonesian Muslim Brigade (BMI) and a biker gang as the protesters were marching towards the Mandala Monument.

Around 30 students from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP)...

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Potential story here?

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Military post was attacked, 9 Army SOF are captured and 21 are MIA

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Any videos?

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However, uh my friend is in contact with the alleged members of such unit, my friend gave me a screenshot which posssibly contain PIIs, should i send here or through DM? Is there any Bellingcat's specific policy about this?

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@iron orbit @lean goblet

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@shrewd stump

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Feel free to DM it to me and I'll have a look and see if it's ok to post.... if it contains graphic or distressing material it can be spoilered for low end stuff and anything gnarly is better passed on via DM's

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Thanks for checking re: the image @small bone 🙏
We've decided not to post it here as it is a conversation that contains telephone numbers and identifying information that could be considered doxx'y under the Discord TOS.
The gist of the conversation in Bahasa was the MIA troops are not captured but are just separated from their unit but at the moment, nothing is confirmed and even that information is up in the air.

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it's confirmed

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There are KIA and MIA

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# lean goblet Any videos?

Just an advice, if you want to geolocate locations in Papua, try to pre-geolocate Mapenduma, Nduga, Tembagapura, Yakuhimo, and Puncak. These locations are usual hotspots; it helps you a lot to makes sense the terrain.

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https://vxtwitter.com/Jatosint/status/1647514561229230080

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TNI HQ confirmed that yesterday (15/4), Armed Separatist Groups/Free Papua Movement (KKB/OPM) launched another attack in Mugi-Mam, Nduga, Papua -One confirmed KIA: Pvt. Miftahul Arifin -Other soldiers scattered in...
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TNI HQ confirmed that yesterday (15/4), Armed Separatist Groups/Free Papua Movement (KKB/OPM) launched another attack in Mugi-Mam, Nduga, Papua

-One confirmed KIA: Pvt. Miftahul Arifin

-Other soldiers scattered in several locations, their fate is unknown due to...(cont)

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Important context: It happened when SOF try to approach hostage's location

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and there's a soldier fell into 50m deep cliff? Basically it's kinda steep, and the location is not that far away from the the military post which got attacked, that's quite a strong clue if you guys want to geolocate it

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Damn

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What does "more proactive" means? Surgical direct action operations, while containing some known OPM strongholds

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It's SOF-led operations instead of GPF one

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It's likely that Nemangkawi TF (Direct Action ops) is reinstated and parallels with Damai Cartenz ops (Stabilisation ops)

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a couple of name changes from One Information Papua to the current iteration starting in Dec 22.

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Interesting that they were targeting the Solomon Islands heavily for the last advertisment.

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^ Just messaged me and said there's a crazy bot campaign that originates from Indonesia using #KSTP against the Papuan group.

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@shrewd stump @thick schooner Is it possible to scrape everything with a combination of #Papua + #KSTP (?)

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Yeah just read it…. Associated bot-like campaign is a weird twist

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I would like to set my teeth in this as a second Influence Operation article if there's enough material.

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Yup… I think that would be a good project

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so there's no update about the killings of another member of the factions of TNPB from WPA? that killed Joni Botak? tge leaders of TNPB factions of west papua army?

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he got killed by Lewis Kogoya factions

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abu bakar...

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I can test one of the two methods I'm using to scrape followers/following to see if search works that way. I suspect at least one will.

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https://jamestown.org/program/west-papuan-insurgents-increase-attacks-in-bid-to-gain-international-attention/

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West Papuan Insurgents Increase Attacks in Bid to Gain Internationa...

On April 14, the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) shot at a small plane that was landing at an airstrip in Intan Jaya Regency in Indonesia’s restive Papuan provinces (Twitter/@udayxSEA, April 14). [1] The TPNPB asserted that it would continue to target aircraft and pilots, including foreigners, after the attack. This attack came more ...

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Where is this happening?

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Sarwon village according to some.

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I think somewhere nearby here: -0.977734, 136.048445

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Or here: -1.009195, 136.045317

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Those both lead me to Biak?

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So despite the report saying Sarwon, it is likely in the area of it, which could be Biak.

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Because the rest nearby is jungle only.

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Wow, so information here can be 4-500 km out?! That's rough.

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Where do you find the time to search all that?

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Other reports say this:

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😵‍💫 always fun with Papuan media giving different place names

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I’ll take a closer look at Maybrat later today

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There is Syarwom, which at least is in Tambrauw Regency as reported.

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https://vxtwitter.com/veronicakoman/status/1691300371430600704?s=46&t=6Sn-YGNglfw_u6qQZWxDFg

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15/8/23 Jayapura, West Papua A peaceful rally commemorating the 1962 New York Agreement, which led to Indonesia’s colonization in West Papua, was forcibly dispersed. At least 16 protestors are known to be inj… 💖 5 🔁 1
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15/8/23 Jayapura, West Papua

A peaceful rally commemorating the 1962 New York Agreement, which led to Indonesia’s colonization in West Papua, was forcibly dispersed.

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Gila

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https://en.jubi.id/controversy-surrounds-deaths-of-civilians-after-kramomongga-incident-in-west-papua/

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Controversy surrounds deaths of civilians after Kramomongga inciden...

Manokwari, Jubi - Following an incident in the Kramomongga District, Fakfak Regency, West Papua Province on August 15, 2023, the police have apprehended a total of 12 individuals suspected of involvement in the attack. Seven of them have faced legal prosecution, while five were fatally shot by law enforcement officers. Yan Christian Warinussy, t...

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@iron orbit ^

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https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/court-ruling-spares-papua-forest-from-further-clearing-for-palm-oil/

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Court ruling spares Papua forest from further clearing for palm oil

JAKARTA — An Indonesian court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm plantation project in the country’s easternmost region of Papua. In its Sept. 9 ruling, the Jakarta State Administrative Court rejected lawsuits filed by two plantation companies that are part of the Tanah Merah mega plantation ...

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https://fxtwitter.com/andreasharsono/status/1714298050167062784

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Former Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was taken from his Jakarta hospital to be detained at @KPK_RI. His brother protested, saying that Enembe has kidney problem. He was arrested following huge #PapuanLivesMatter protest in Jayapura in 2019 https://nasional.…
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Former Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was taken from his Jakarta hospital to be detained at @KPK_RI. His brother protested, saying that Enembe has kidney problem. He was arrested following huge #PapuanLivesMatter protest in Jayapura in 2019 https://nasional.tempo.co/read/1784163/minta-lukas-enembe-dijadikan-tahanan-kota-kuasa-hukum-sebut-ginjal-kli...

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if anyone is bored please check out the following locations with footage of preferably at most 6 months old:
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these spots were interesting clumps of deforestation in 22 but too busy to try to analyse them myself right now, so cant hurt to see if someone has time before i do

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Joint statement from United Liberation Movement for West Papua, Acheh Sumatra National Liberation Front, and Republik Malaku Selaatan on the 75 year anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHWjpiq7mUw

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75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Joint State...

ACHEH | WEST PAPUA | SOUTH MOLUCCAS | 
JOINT STATEMENT IN THE HAGUE

Today, December 10th, 2023, marks a historic milestone for all of us, the human race living in this world. We commemorate the 75th Human Rights Day, a crucial moment that reminds us of the fundamental rights that should be granted to every individual to live on this earth, whic...

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Nor am I familiar with Indonesian; I know little. Can make a confirmation once we get a translation or an English article on elections in Papua

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Not read it in its entirety yet. "Following the boys’ arrest, Indonesia took photos with the two boys, with one soldier pictured grinning as his victims lie face down in the mud. These ‘trophy photos’ are a common feature of the Indonesian occupation. The corpse of freedom fighter Yustinus Murib was mocked in this manner, as was the innocent farmer Wendiman Wonda." Graphic image warning || https://www.ulmwp.org/benny-wenda-indonesian-racism-on-display-in-yahukimo-torture-incident ||

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Upcoming land grab of 200 hectares. Also not sure what is meant by "He said that he is targeting developing the region as a rice barn for neighboring provinces. This aligns with ongoing initiatives to optimize the 20,000-hectare agricultural land area in stages." https://en.antaranews.com/news/314997/west-papua-can-set-example-in-palm-oil-downstreaming-minister

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West Papua can set example in palm oil downstreaming: Minister

Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman highlighted the immense potential of Manokwari district in West Papua as a pioneer in palm oil downstream ...

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#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forest...

JAKARTA — A campaign calling for the protection of Indigenous peoples’ customary forests in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua has gone viral, with the campaign’s poster shared nearly 3 million times on Instagram. The poster contains a link into an online petition that calls for the revocation of an oil palm concession threatening to clear ...

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Several protests in West Papua, Yogyakarta, and elsewhere today against on the anniversary of the 1962 New York Agreement between Indonesia and the NEtherlands regarding West Papua ( https://www.freewestpapua.org/documents/the-new-york-agreement/ ). Several videos being shared on facebook, probably also other socials https://www.facebook.com/687789427/videos/pcb.10163697478214428/7963235287093400

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The New York Agreement - August 1962 - Free West Papua Campaign

New York Agreement Agreement Between the Republic of Indonesia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands Concerning West New Guinea (West Irian) (Signed at the Headquarters of the United Nations, New York, on 15 August 1962) The Republic of Indonesia and…

United Nations calls this an act of free choice! | By Helen SwannFa...

United Nations calls this an act of free choice!

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Guardian article titled: "West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide" >> "West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory." https://archive.ph/dYqim

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🇮🇩 #Indonesia / #WestPapua: Video footage released by the Indonesian Police Mobile Brigade Corps shows an aerial engagement with Papuan rebels from the Free Papua Movement, a group that has been fighting for independence from Indonesia since at least 1963. The incident reportedly occurred during a police mission to locate a missing officer...

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