Selected dated regional reports. Points locate regions, not incidents or people.
Period: see sourceHRM · linked reporting ↗← FollowingReported displacement Reported conflict Reported military presence Roads & place labels Provinces Cultural/reference regions Registered customary territories Language reference points Mining permits Major extraction sites Forest & plantation permits Protected areas Fire hotspots Forest loss Water permanence Surface-water change Rainfall anomaly Major roads Airports Ports Settlements Population distribution Current developments
Civic space in Papua
Current picture
HRM records intimidation and dispersal of Pesta Babi screenings during its second-quarter monitoring. The documentary was released online on 22 May.
Which screening incidents are documented, and what remedies were available to organizers?
Background
Civic space concerns the practical ability to report, organise, discuss and make cultural work. The August 2019 anti-racism protests and internet shutdown are major reference points. The Jakarta administrative court later found the shutdown unlawful, but that ruling did not establish that every subsequent restriction ended.
Recent cases include journalism, student organising and public film screenings. Each needs its own date, authority and evidence. Pesta Babi links debate about South Papua’s land projects with the ability to show and discuss a documentary; monitoring reports of intimidation and dispersal should remain attributed. Disagreement with a work and an action preventing people from seeing it are different things.
Latest developments
Timeline.
2019
Anti-racism protests
HRW documents racist abuse against Papuan students, the August 2019 protests, arrests and subsequent discrimination.
Ariana Elopere, photographed in 2023. HRW documents her arrest and prosecution after the August 2019 anti-racism protest in Jakarta. Sources 1
Human Rights Watch · 2024Internet shutdown across Papua
After throttling on 19 August, the government shut down internet access from 21 August to 4 September in cities and regencies across Papua and West Papua. AJI and SAFEnet challenged the restrictions. Columbia’s case analysis explains how the interruption affected access to information and freedom of expression during the protests.
2020
Court rules internet shutdown unlawful
Amnesty reports the Jakarta administrative court ruling that government internet throttling and shutdown in Papua in 2019 were unlawful.
2026
Film-screening monitoring
HRM’s April–June monitoring records intimidation and dispersal of Pesta Babi screenings. The documentary was released online on 22 May 2026.
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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 ↗Library.
Browse all ↗Articles & analysis · 2020 · EN
Court ruling on internet blackout in Papua
The organization's account of a court ruling on the August–September 2019 internet shutdown.
Articles & analysis · 2025 · ID
Journalists' safety committee statement on Mimika press intimidation
Primary statement from the journalists' safety coalition concerning a reported Mimika incident.
Articles & analysis · 2026 · ID
Concerns about screenings of a Papua documentary
Reporting and attribution on public film screenings and freedom of expression.