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Research Training Workshop: Tribal Wars in West Papua, Indonesia: Honoring Indigenous Culture or a Form of State Violence?

Short Report of Open Seminar (11/4/2016):

Speaker:

Dr. Nino Viartasiwi

 

This seminar identified notorious communal violence taking form in tribal wars in some areas of West Papua region of Indonesia.

 

Although the long going communal violence has taken casualties both in the kind of loss of lives and properties, however, the government has been unenthusiastic to tame the violence under the pretext that tribal war is a conflict settlement mechanism inherent in the West Papua's aboriginal culture. This presentation answers questions as follows: in a democratic country what is the border of indigenous rights to exercise the customary practices? What is the obligation of the government toward aboriginal communities? The presentation concludes that the government choice of action to allow tribal wars is equal with state violence by manipulating the native customary to commit violence against the tribal communities.

 

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on November 4, 2016, hosted by College of International Relations Ritsumeikan University and Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Approximately 20 participants attended the seminar.


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