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Former TVNZ Staff member destroys Mike Hosking
Former TVNZ Staff member, Liz Gunn, destroys Mike Hosking in her Facebook post calling on TVNZ to sack him…
I remember when I worked with him , he maintained as his mantra, with his now usual level of inordinate pride, the intended-to-be sardonic saying of Gordon Gecko in the original ” Wall St ” movie – namely , that ” Greed Is Good” . He often repeated it off air, with that faux air of Great Authority . We all thought he was joking at first, but he was serious . I started to feel nauseous as I heard it repeated on many days, and as I saw the results of such a perspective in his approach to interviewees, and in his manipulative media pronouncements -now foisted on viewers each evening at peak time, and always aimed at endorsing Neo Liberal ideology . He has maintained that dire stance throughout his career, admiring those who exhibit the most greed and reviling those who struggle under the weight and demands of the greedy few . When I left TVNZ , I left with the most profound pity for such a dessicated human , so bereft of empathy or compassion for his fellow Kiwis , especially those who are facing difficulty or , God forbid, failure . The year I did Breakfast with him , he went out of his way to undermine me in every way he could find . My goal became a very simple one…to get in early and sit quietly in that darkened studio and say a quiet resolution – a whispered prayer -asking for help so that I would never react and never never sink to his level. That I would maintain my own dignity and never let the hurts show in any overt reaction to his many attempts to humiliate and belittle . It was a year of teeth-gritting , white knuckle survival . A quiet triumph . Every day. Over the passive and overt bullying . I have never spoken of it in public until now , when it is relevant here, to the issue of the sort of man whom TVNZ have placed in such a position of influence. I used to wonder if he would ever find that point where his lust for money or power could be satiated ? If he would ever find authentic , not trumped -up happiness, on that heavy path of the pursuit of “still-more money “? And I wondered too what had shaped a man so lacking in human kindness ? I hope he can one day turn this around. He always wanted to be Paul Holmes but he never could emulate the real Paul . In spite of Paul’s self -admitted human fallibilities, Paul genuinely cared for people when he saw them suffering . He had a huge heart for Kiwis . Paul himself knew suffering. I wonder if Mike has ever allowed himself to feel that vulnerability? Do those who won’t open to their own pain , risk becoming in-suffer-able.? I do not think he is a healthy touchstone for NZ broadcasting . I hope with time and perhaps some of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, himself, he can find a more real place , a more human face , a more caring heart for his fellow Kiwis . Until then, I wish for a far more empathetic nightly host to take his place at 7 pm . I endorse this petition . Liz Gunn
…our public broadcaster has a responsibility to live up to its fourth estate obligations, to hold the powerful to account and champion the underdog – Hosking is a rich powerful arsehole whose privileged existence mirrors the same rich powerful arseholes who get away with so much in NZ.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 19th June 2016
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Hone confirms – MANA Movement is back
Hone and Annette have confirmed on TV3’s excellent ‘The Hui’ this morning that they are fighting back to bring the MANA movement back into the 2017 election.
The treachery of Labour and NZ First at the 2014 election (a treachery that right wing Lord of the Sith Simon Lusk claims he was involved in) means that MANA can not rely on its ‘allies’ to gain power. The Labour and Green Memorandum of Understanding is a model that the MANA leadership and Maori Party Leadership need to consider. If an agreement like that was reached, MANA can win Te Tai Tokerau and Maori Party could win Waiariki plus with the coat tailing, they could each bring in an extra MP with them.
An independent Maori voice is crucial for our political system, if Labour and the Greens can put aside their differences, the great schism within Maori Politics can be bridged.
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Budgeting to be a peacemaker not a warmaker
When it comes to helping out the victims of war – refugees – the government says it can only afford $25 million a year for an extra 250 refugees, a derisory amount.
Yet when it comes to preparations for fighting wars, the sky’s the limit. In its Defence White Paper the government projects spending $20 billion on new defence equipment over the next 15 years?
Most of this $20 billion is so we can kit up with all the latest hi-tech gear to fight wars alongside the United States – wars which in recent times have only created chaos and more refugees.
Don’t be fooled by Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee spinning the $20 billion as necessary to “respond to activities in New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone, supporting New Zealand’s presence in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, as well as increasing cyber threats to Defence Force networks.”
Expenditure for those purposes is at the cheap end of the spectrum. In 2011 the Defence Force completed a Project Protector which delivered a whole new naval capacity to operate in the EEZ, the South Pacific and the Southern Ocean. The project delivered two Off-shore Patrol Vessels, four In-shore Patrol Vessels and a Multi-Role Vessel, the Canterbury. All up Project Protector cost $500 million.
Compare this $500 million for seven completely new ships to the latest (of many) equipment upgrades on the two ANZAC frigates – now scheduled to cost $473 million. If the present frigates are replaced in the 2020s (as projected in the White Paper) that additional cost will be in the billions.
The frigates are so much more expensive to build and operate than the Multi-Role Vessel and the patrol boats because of all the high-tech equipment they need to fight a major war alongside the US and Australian navies.
In the 1980s there was a widespread public debate over whether we should get frigates at all. Frigate opponents argued that they were too expensive and they locked us into US and Australian defence objectives. The arguments against wasting money on frigates apply even more today when America’s main military adversary is now our main trading partner, China.
The Defence White Paper seems calculated to annoy China.
It praises the “United States ‘rebalance’ towards the Asia-Pacific region” – which is actually all about confronting China. It praises the “degree of global influence” the US exerts and how New Zealand’s military relationship with the United States is “one of this country’s closest.”
You’d think that given the tension between China and the US, New Zealand would step back a bit. Instead the White Paper says that the “deepening geostrategic competition in Asia” is a reason New Zealand needs to be “able to contribute Defence resources beyond [our] immediate region if required.”
Part of this “geostrategic competition in Asia” is a military standoff between China and several other countries over some islands in the South China Sea. One of these countries is Malaysia. Is it wise then for the White Paper to explicitly promise that New Zealand would come to the defence of Malaysia, if it were the “subject of military attack”?
This is not to say that New Zealand should be uncritical of Chinese policy, domestic or foreign. But our criticism, on democratic rights issues for example, will be more effective if we are not seen as a military lapdog of the United States.
Each proposal for a major defence spend should be scrutinised closely to see if it meets New Zealand’s real needs. The proposal for “ice-strengthening the planned third offshore patrol vessel” may have merit, to catch trawlers depleting fish stocks in the Southern Ocean.
Sometimes a non-military equipment option will be better than a military one – and much cheaper. Other countries do much of their maritime surveillance with civilian planes, whose work is now made easier by access to satellite imagery and GPS transponders on boats. Drones may also be available for such work.
Most of the expenditure on the Air Force Orion planes is for military purposes unrelated to the day-to-day surveillance work it conducts around New Zealand and in the South Pacific. For example, the White Paper mentions “work is underway to upgrade the Orion’s underwater intelligence” – as part of a high tech revamp costing nearly $400 million. “Underwater intelligence” means detecting submarines. New Zealand’s submarine hunting was originally part of an American Cold War project to track Soviet submarines, wherever they happened to be. Presumably the idea now is to help the US track Chinese submarines. Is that really what we want our tax money spent on?
The White Paper also references the need for cyber-security “for the protection of Defence Force networks, platforms and people”. That’s fair enough, although we are much more likely to be a target of cyber-attacks if we are closely tied to the US military.
New Zealand is hardly facing any military threat and should be promoting itself as a peacemaker not a warmaker. Having a small military budget would then be an asset, not a liability.
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Batman vs Superman – a 5 star documentary about American Capitalism
The film, as a film, is a hot mess clusterfuck that truly has to be seen to be believed. It’s so awful in that way only bloated Hollywood corporate cinema can be. The plot makes little sense, the overtly wrought melodrama is boring and the tedious pauses that are supposed to derive some type of meaning and symbolism just look silly.
As a film, it’s shit. Appalling, ill directed crap that ends up looking like Transformers in spandex. As a documentary about American Capitalism however, it’s 5 stars.
Superman symbolises the God given Manifest Destiny bullshit that convinces America that whatever helps them also personally helps Jesus Christ himself. The power of the Devine that Superman embodies allows the troubled rebel God narrative of American Capitalism and creates the pretence that America itself has some deep reflective soul searching power despite dropping nuclear bombs on civilian cities and using slavery as an economic base.
Batman symbolises the Military Industrial Complex. You can’t have a Superman syndrome without the rampant death industry of the private military who can project foreign affairs muscle like a God throwing lightening bolts. Some one has to build those lightening bolts with a lot of state tax breaks, and Bruce Wayne Industries will.
Then there is Wonder Woman who represents Israel (actually played by an actress who served in the IDF). She’s there to manipulate the combined efforts of the Manifest Destiny and Military Industrial Complex for her own ends and Lex Luther represents the new disruptive technologies economy that ultimately get beaten down by the status quo.
As a movie this is shit, as a symbolic examination of American Capitalism impacting foreign policy it is a masterpiece.
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God’s Bigots: The Religious Origins Of Homophobia
OWEN JONES: democratic socialist, LGBTI activist and Guardian journalist: takes homophobia seriously. So seriously, that earlier this week he pulled off his microphone and stormed out of Britain’s Sky News studio in protest at the network’s treatment of the Orlando massacre.
To Jones, what happened in Orlando was very simple: more than a hundred people had been killed or wounded by a gun-wielding assailant because they were gay. Before it was anything else, Jones declared, Orlando was a homophobic atrocity – the worst since the Second World War. Alleged connections with ISIS; the assailant’s religious beliefs; these were secondary to the killer’s primary motivation, which was, according to Jones, the violent erasure of LGBTI identity.
Watching the video, it is easy to see why Jones became so irate. There is an unmistakeable tone of correction in the presenter’s voice when he emphasises the victims’ humanity over their sexuality. It was almost as if he felt unable to identify with the dead and wounded until they had been redefined into persons for whom he could legitimately grieve. Not queers, but “human-beings”.
Jones had been invited into the Sky studio to discuss the way the news media had presented the tragedy. This was, of course, why Jones was so angry. The dominant theme of the British and American coverage was that Orlando represented yet another Islamic terrorist assault upon the “freedoms” and “tolerance” of the enlightened and democratic West. The homophobia which drove Omar Mateen to gun down the LGBTI patrons of the Pulse nightclub was thus elided in favour of a more comfortable narrative: “They [ISIS, Radical Islam] hate us [The West] because of our freedom.”
What must also be acknowledged, however, is that Jones’ determination to keep the focus squarely on Mateen’s homophobic motivation, itself begs the question of what made Mateen a homophobe in the first place? In this regard, Jones’ determination to dismiss the killer’s religious beliefs – along with his declared allegiance to ISIS – as matters irrelevant to his homophobic actions, is, almost certainly, misguided.
If we reject the proposition that homophobia is genetically predetermined, then we must accept it as a socially constructed phenomenon. In the simplest terms: homophobes are not born, they are made.
And if homophobia is a social construction, then we must acknowledge the important roles played by powerful societal institutions – including organised religion – in its creation. The Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam; all of them militantly monotheistic and aggressively patriarchal; have always dealt harshly with homosexuality and lesbianism. Those found guilty of such “abominations” were to be put to death.
It is only in the course of the last half-century that Western statute law has ceased to offer powerful secular reinforcement to these religious strictures. Meanwhile, in the overwhelming majority of Islamic countries, homosexual conduct continues to rank as a capital offence. Even where more liberal and permissive penal codes now prevail, the legacy of organised religion’s condemnation of homosexuality is a strong one. In a great many parts of the supposedly “tolerant” West, anti-homosexual prejudice – homophobia – continues to lurk just below the surface.
How disturbing the apprehension of this intolerance must be for those whose sexual orientation is other than heterosexual. In communities where homophobic antagonism is construed by family and friends, employers and workmates, as obedience to the will of God, the situation for LGBTI individuals is much, much worse. Constantly being made aware of one’s “otherness”, while not being able to either acknowledge it, or escape it, can only generate the most acute psychological stress.
Was Omar Mateen gay? Quite possibly. Patrons of the Pulse nightclub remember him, but only as a loner, someone who held himself aloof from the club’s easy-going conviviality. His first wife remembers him as an angry man, from whose violent behaviour she had ultimately to be rescued by her family. Looking at his many brooding selfies, the world will remember Mateen as someone determined to present his best possible face to the world.
And that could never be his gay face. Was this the crucial negation which fuelled his anger and twisted his perceptions? When he saw two men kissing in a Miami street, did he envy their freedom or resent it? Unlike him, they appeared to fear neither God’s punishment, nor their families’ rejection. How had they done it? How had they moved beyond sin, beyond shame? He could not be such a person. He would not be such a person. He would ask God to make him a different person – a righteous person. He would wage a jihad against his own desires.
In the end, did he despair of ever defeating those desires? Is that when he began to fantasise about martyring himself in the holy war against Western corruption? In the online communities of Islamic fundamentalism he would have found plenty of encouragement. Paradise awaited those who fell in the battle against the sinners; the unbelievers; the enemies of God.
The operator who took Mateen’s 911 call, just minutes before he unleashed hell at the Pulse nightclub, described him as sounding “calm”. In his final moments, before a hail of Police bullets cut him down, witnesses similarly recalled his calm, untroubled demeanour.
These descriptions do not conform with Owen Jones’ characterisation of the killer as some sort of enraged, frothing-at-the-mouth, homophobic thug. It does, however, sound remarkably similar to the descriptions of the early Christian martyrs as they waited to be torn to pieces in the amphitheatres of Ancient Rome.
It is what religion does to people: it transforms their world.
For the early Christian martyrs, the evil arrayed against them was not a barrier, but a portal, to the presence of God. For the contemporary soldiers of Islam, dutifully slaying God’s enemies, Paradise awaits.
On that terrible Sunday morning, where did the broken human vessel that was Omar Mateen believe himself to be standing? At the gates of heaven? In God’s favour? Or, was the Pulse nightclub simply the place where he killed himself – forty-nine times?
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday – 18th June 2016
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Waatea 5th Estate – Friday night political wrap up
Joining us tonight for our infamous Friday night political wrap of the week…
Former Leader of the Labour Party and people’s hero – David Cunliffe
Former leader of the Internet Party, Alliance Party MP and Living Wage restauranteur – Laila Harre
Refugee lawyer and blogger, Michael Timmons
And on the Phone Blogger and MANA Movement activist – Tim Selwyn
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Why the Left doesn’t scream ‘ISLAMIC TERRORIST’ every time
There has been much hum about the Left supporting Islamic radicals in the wake of the horror in Orlando.
It happens every time there is an attack. Usually in this order…
1 – Decry it as a terrorist attack
2 – Demand every Muslim in the world decry it in the exact same shrill tone of accusation or else they are supporting it.
3 – Demand to know why the Left don’t do the same and suggest deep down we philosophically love the Islamic Terrorists and are secretly on their side.
It’s tedious and it is a pretty ugly way to remember the innocent lives stuffed out by hate.
I remember the drum beat towards war in Iraq the second time around in the early 2000s. Bush had connected the terror attacks to Iraq and wanted regime change for geopolitical reasons and because the Military Industrial Complex needed a new feast. The Bush Administration molested the terrified post 9/11 world into invading another country on a pack of WMD lies.
The ferocious blowback of that event is being felt right now throughout the Middle East. The destruction and displacement within Iraq is still reverberating into todays conflicts. Just as the CIA had unknowingly funded Osama Bin Laden through the Pakistani Secret Intelligence Service, the US military who tortured and held prisoner many Iraqi Army Officers during their invasion and occupation of Iraq accidentally sowed the seeds of ISIS as many of those imprisoned and tortured former Iraqi Officers went onto become senior figures in IS.
We nurture the monsters who turn on us.
The ease of the manipulation of my fellow NZers to support such a trumped up and manufactured war all because we were sold a version of Islam that claimed they hated our way of life so much that they want to kill us. The denomination of an entire religion was easy, manipulative and green lighted wars and military action which reset the cycle of violence and grievance.
The Middle East hate that the West props up Authoritarian regimes that crush their people. Radical Islam becomes the only vent for that righteous grievance. Every bomb we drop we create more terrorists.
I see radical Islam in the 20th and 21st Century as a response to Western intervention in their world. The coup organised in Iran put in a dictator who was so cruel, radical Islam was the only opposition left standing. To not directly blame American corporate greed for oil as the direct reason why the Iranian Theocracy stands today suggests you don’t understand what’s going on, and if you don’t understand what’s going on, advocating dropping bombs won’t help.
America, time and time and time again interfere in the Middle East for their corporate interests and end up grooming the next monster to attack us. To destabilise the Soviets. the CIA feed Islamic fighters in Afghanistan. These fighters then ran amok after the Soviets lost and formed the Northern Alliance whose rampages were so extreme the people reached out to a hillbilly meth version of Islam, the Taliban.
Meanwhile Osama Bin Laden, emboldened by his CIA funded wins in Afghanistan, starts plotting death to America after America starts stationing troops in Saudi Arabia.
All the time America props up Israel’s brutal and genocidal occupation of Palestine. While propping up Saudi Arabia, the biggest funder of terror in the region. While propping up numerous other despots.
And then we wonder why these people loath us so much.
Has it actually occurred to anyone that our Western foreign policy actually makes us loathable?
I’ve always believed the greatest recruitment video for Islamic Radicalism is Jersey Shore.
To scream at the religion and blame it for being incompatible with us as justification to continue the western foreign policy that is actually breeding this type of deformed schism is just intellectually dishonest.
I don’t blame Islam because I try to understand what it is we do in the West that angers them so much for this kind of extreme violence. Blaming the religion is lazy and stupid thinking if we want solutions to what the bloody hell is going on.
The ease with which my fellow NZers are manipulated into screaming about a religion rather than critically analysing what it is that we are doing in the West that continue to create the environment for this kind of response is an indictment on a media that has traded its Fourth Estate obligations for clickbait ignorance.
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So when will the right start blaming the killer of Jo Cox on Christianity?
It ain’t terrorism when it’s Christians doing it
In the hours after the Orlando killings, the Right and some in the media were very quick to claim this was Islam’s fault. This was the home grown lone wolf Muslim radical and it was further evidence that Islam is somehow incompatible with our values hence the only solution is to bomb them into the bronze age.
Much of that bluster has been diluted now by the later facts that the gunman was frequenting gay clubs, gay apps and gay men for some time before the shooting. Homophobic Self-hate mixed with the need to somehow justify ones repressed sexuality and easy access to semi-automatic weapons had more to do with Orlando than Islam did.
It’s interesting to see the muted reaction to the terrible killing of British Labour MP Jo Cox. The killer has been connected to a far right Christian pro-apartheid group yet the right aren’t calling it terrorism by Christianity.
Hate, social division, inequality, lack of connection with civil society and alienation are driving our violence, attempting to paint entire religions as the problem simply creates another problem.
You fight hate with understanding not invading the Middle East.
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Well, well, well – 90 day right to fire doesn’t create jobs after all
It’s funny whenever I used to bring up the 90 day right to fire policy, there would be a flood of National supporters claiming that it was working, turns out they were wrong, the thing simply makes it cheaper for the boss man to abuse workers…
90-day trial periods do not boost employment, research finds
The controversial trial period allowing workers to be easily sacked within their first 90 days on the job has failed to boost employment, research has found.
Treasury-funded research conducted by Motu found no statistically significant increasing in hiring by employers following the introduction of the 90-day trial periods in 2009.
Motu Fellow Isabelle Sin said the research used “data from every firm and every person in New Zealand” to assess the law changes’ effect.
“The main effect of the policy was a decrease in dismissal costs for firms, while many employees faced increased uncertainty about their job security for three months after being hired,” Sin said.
…so another workers right busting neoliberal myth put to bed. The problem is that the average National voter doesn’t care if policy actually stands up to scrutiny, they hate left wing people and values and the perception that it somehow damages them is all a National voter cares about. That the policy works is secondary to the spite it might cause.
We can see this mindset across almost every National Party policy – state housing, homelessness, welfare and private prisons – those who are seen as failing deserve to suffer as far as your average National voter is concerned.
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National care about – Flag referendums, Casinos building event centres and bribing Saudi businessmen – don’t care about extended Paid Parental Leave
National can afford vanity projects like flag referendums, $3b in tax cuts & can help casinos but can’t extend paid parental leave – how terribly ugly…
Parental leave extension vetoed
The Government has vetoed a Labour Party bill which would have extended paid parental leave from 18 weeks to 26 weeks.
Finance Minister Bill English confirmed this afternoon that he had exercised the financial veto – the first time he has used it to sink an entire piece of legislation.
Labour MP Sue Moroney’s bill had broad support in Parliament and was expected to pass into law this month.
But Mr English said it was unaffordable.
“Treasury estimates the cost of this legislation amounts to $278 million over the next four years, a significant extra – unbudgeted – cost,” he said.
…it really says something about the values of a Government who put property bubbles, personal vanity projects and endless irrigation for Dairy Farms above something like extended Paid Parental Leave.
Enabling parents to be able to spend those precious first weeks with their newborn is the best start to life, that this Government can’t see that speaks volumes of what their values really are.
Sue Moroney has fought such an amazing fight to keep the issue alive for the time she has. She is a legend who deserves to see this policy changed once this bloody Government get booted out in 2017.
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Fresh wave of mass arrests to intimidate West Papuans
David Robie also blogs at Cafe Pacific
Quote from West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda: “West Papuan people continue to be arrested, continue to be tortured and continued to be murdered by the Indonesian military and police. The world needs to see this truly desperate situation in occupied West Papua. West Papua is a militarised emergency zone with more and more Indonesian soldiers coming and killing innocent people. The biggest human rights disaster in the Pacific is happening today just 250km north of Australia and we West Papuans are worried that if this genocide and illegal occupation continues to be ignored, in the next few decades we will be completely wiped out from our own country.” Read Benny’s full plea on Asia Pacific Report. Read on in Asia Pacific Report:
JAYAPURA POLICE ARREST 1004 ACTIVISTS, SAYS KNPB
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
The West Papua National Committee claimed that more than 1000 of its members have were detained by Indonesian police during a rally on Wednesday to oppose a Human Rights Investigation Team set up by the Ministry of Political, Legal and Security Affairs.
“All were detained. We are now at the Jayapura Police Station. There are 1004 activists. They are still being questioned at the police station,” chairman of KNPB Sentani Region Alan Halitopo told Jubi.
He said the police had arrested them because they did not have a permit for the rally.
But KNPB said they were likely to be released after being questioned.
Bazoka Logo, Central KNPB spokesperson, said the police broke its record of arrests against Papuans.
“The colonial government made a record for the highest number of detentions,” he said. These mass arrests detention proved Indonesia was no longer a democratic State.
Separately, Jayapura police spokesperson Imam Rubianto said they had questioned 600 people and released them shortly after.
“They have been released this afternoon, at five o’clock. Cellphones that were seized by the police have been returned as well,” he said.
Papua police spokesman Patridge Renwarin said police localised the demonstrators to limit their movements. He added no one was arrested.
The police action was backed by Atmadji Sumarkdijo, an aide of Chief Security Minister Luhut Pandjaitan, who is visiting the province today.
Spanish student arrested
Edo Karensa of the Jakarta Post reports that a Spanish national was among the “hundreds of people” detained for attempting to stage a rally in Jayapura to support West Papua’s independence and reject a reconciliation plan prepared by the Indonesian government.
Thousands of protesters from pro-independence group West Papua National Committee, or KNPB, had descended from neighboring districts into Jayapura but were intercepted by the police before they could reach the Papua Provincial Council office in Jayapura.
The KNPB has rejected a reconciliation plan prepared by Chief Security Minister Luhut Panjaitan, arguing that the Indonesian government is still pursuing repressive tactics toward pro-independence Papuans.
Among the detained protesters was Andreu Arino I Prats, a Spanish national and a student at Fisica University in Barcelona.
Benny Mawel is a Tabloid Jubi journalist writing for Asia Pacific Report.
Image gallery for the June 15 protests
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