Refugees on their own land: the West Papuans in limbo in Papua New Guinea

Up to 7,000 West Papuans live in refugee villages, separated from their homeland by the wide, despoiled Fly River

It’s 35 years since Agapitus Kiku decided he didn’t want a future without freedom.

As a young man he’d been pressed into a work gang, bristling under the watch of Indonesian soldiers whose authority over his tribal country, in the south-east corner of the vast contested province then called Irian Jaya, he refused to recognise.

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