Dear Friends The Australia West Papua Association (Sydney) is a non party-political, non-religious association supporting indigenous : peoples of West Papua (Irian Jaya).Aims of AWPA 1. To help raise awareness of the range of critical social and environmental issues in West Papua.2. To encourage NGOs to make contact with counterpart Indonesian NGOs, and with other organisations, in order to exchange information and determine strategies which may assist the West Papuan people.3. To encourage groups to lobby their own governments and the government of Indonesia.4. To have the issues of human rights violations and transmigration fully investigated by a team of UN observers, including the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, with a view to reporting to the UN Human Rights Commission and the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations.5.  To lobby for the maintenance of the UN Committee on Decolonisation, and for the question of West Papua's status to be restored to the Committee's agenda. To encourage the invited participation of West Papuan representatives to conferences, fora, festivals and other activities, held in the Pacific region.6. To have the issue of the treatment of West Papuan people included on the agenda of the South Pacific Forum, and for WP to be granted observer status at the Forum.7. To encourage the invited participation of West Papuan representatives to conferences, fora, festivals and other activities, held in the Pacific region; With these aims in mind, AWPA produced a West Papua Information Kit in 1995. This is a second, fully revised edition of the Kit. It includes a more thorough investigation of the Freeport mine, and includes a section on regional issues.We have included a bibliography and a contacts list.
Yours sincerely Committee members The Australia West Papua Association, Sydney December, 1997