West Papuans push for conflict at home to be on global agenda

Updated 7 May 2012, 14:51 AEST

We may not hear much about it but the unrest in the Indonesian province of West Papua continues.

West Papuans push for conflict at home to be on global agenda (Credit: ABC) 

For example, on April 8, gunmen fired on a small plane as it landed at Mulia Airport, killing one passenger and wounding four others including both pilots.

The conflict goes on and so does the international effort by it's people to get the issue of West Papua on the agenda.

Eben Kirksey has seen this process up close, accompanying West Papuan campaigners to meetings around the world and often finding himself surprised at their knack for getting in the door and for negotiating with some unlikely allies.

Eben Kirksey has written about his experiences and studies in the book Freedom in an Entangled World: West Papua and the architecture of Global Power.

Presenter: Liam Cochrane

Speaker: Eben Kirksey, author of Freedom in an Entangled World: West Papua and the architecture of Global Power and Visiting Assistant Professor Science Studies at the City University of New York