Selected dated regional reports. Points locate regions, not incidents or people.
Period: see sourceHRM · linked reporting ↗West Papua Watch
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Reports in this period
Regional reference points. Partial coverage; not live positions.
BIG · Bappenas · ESDM · NASA FIRMS · Source: layer metadata
Map sources & notes
Selected dated regional reports. Points locate regions, not incidents or people.
Period: see sourceHRM · linked reporting ↗Selected dated regional reports. Points locate regions, not incidents or people.
Period: see sourceHRM · linked reporting ↗OpenStreetMap roads and labels at local zoom levels. Coverage varies; absence is not proof that a road or community does not exist.
Period: see source© OpenStreetMap contributors · EOX rendering ↗The six current Indonesian provinces in Western New Guinea.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Generalized to whole regencies; internal customary boundaries can differ.
Period: see sourceBappenas membership · BIG administrative geometry ↗Unavailable until geometry reuse is explicitly defensible; no scraping or sensitive-site import.
Period: see sourceBRWA ↗Representative language locations only. A dated Wurm–Hattori 1981/83 polygon atlas can be added separately as a historical reference layer.
Period: see sourceGlottolog 5.3 · BIG province geometry ↗IUP/WIUP mining-permit polygons clipped to the six Papua provinces.
Period: see sourceKementerian ESDM · Ditjen Minerba ↗Site points identify operations; they are not permit boundaries.
Period: see sourceSourced operating-site metadata ↗Plantation coverage is partial where public services expose only local layers.
Period: see sourceKLHK · BIG Satu Peta ↗Published conservation zoning available through BIG Satu Peta.
Period: see sourceBIG Satu Peta · environmental data producers ↗NASA FIRMS thermal detections over the last 2 days. Near real time; not confirmed wildfires.
Period: see sourceNASA FIRMS · VIIRS NOAA-21 ↗Derived web raster; source year/version is recorded in atlas status.
Period: see sourceHansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA ↗Share of valid Landsat observations with water, 1984–2024. Pale pink to deep blue: occasional to persistent water. Not current flooding.
Period: see sourceSource: EC JRC/Google ↗EC JRC Global Surface Water transitions, 1984–2024.
Period: see sourceEC JRC/Google ↗Monthly anomaly in millimetres; latest available preliminary/final product.
Period: see sourceCHIRPS v3 · Climate Hazards Center / FAO distribution ↗Public BIG transport/RBI road geometry, simplified for the Watch atlas.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Public BIG aviation atlas locations.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Public BIG/RBI port locations.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Sparse named settlement/capital layer from public BIG/RBI data.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Modeled distribution, not a census enumeration at 100 m.
Period: see sourceWorldPop 2026 ↗Published Watch Developments placed using canonical Places.
Period: see sourceWest Papua Watch · linked reporting ↗Weekly review
Current picture ·Land and public life
Reports on food and energy development in the south, displacement in the highlands and public film screenings show how decisions about land and security affect livelihoods, public services and discussion. This opening review brings together records from different places and periods.
Following.
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South Papua food and energy estate
South Papua food and energy estate
02Nduga: conflict and displacement
Displacement since 2018, access to schools and healthcare, and the conditions for returning home.
03Mining in Raja Ampat
Mining in Raja Ampat
04Freeport and Mimika
Mining, river tailings, land and livelihoods from the highlands to the Mimika coast.
Library.
Open library →book · 2005Constructing Papuan Nationalism: History, Ethnicity, and Adaptationhdl.handle.net↗research · 2004The Papua Conflict: Jakarta's Perceptions and Policieshdl.handle.net↗book · 2010Papua Road Map: Negotiating the Past, Improving the Present and Securing the FutureYayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia / ISEAS↗book · 2017Updating Papua Road Mapwestpapuanetz.de↗book · 2003The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962–1969: The Anatomy of Betrayalcatalogue.leidenuniv.nl↗