A JOURNEY TO FREEDOM

" I Believe The West Papuan Struggle Is Blessed, And That Those Who Help Are Likewise Blessed "

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OUR STRUGGLE MY JOURNEY

HERMAN WAINGGAI: In 2005 Herman organized the escape of forty-three West Papuans in a traditional double-outrigger canoe, circumnavigating West Papua then crossing the Arafura Sea to Australia. Their odyssey sparked media reports around the world, and when the Australian government granted them asylum Indonesia recalled its Ambassador from Canberra. Herman then set up the West Papua Christian Fellowship at St Hilary’s Anglican Church in Melbourne to help settle his friends in Australia’s very foreign environment. Herman developed his non-violent approach to independence after questioning how the grace-filled virtues of justice, peace, and love could influence his work as an activist, politician, and diplomat. He comes from a tradition of disciplined orators, craftsmen and musicians, and believes people's dignity and their culture, as well as God's laws and international secular laws are fundamental to the West Papuan self-determination project. He believes the independence of West Papua will be a major development in the democracy of Indonesia. In this capacity he attended the Fletcher Summer Institute for the advanced study of non-violent conflict at Tufts University in June 2009.

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outside the Parlaiment House in Canberra, Australia

On 9 November 2010, a symposium on Democracy and Human Rights in Asia Pacific at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA

At this Australian Institute of International Affairs event - which Indonesian Government officials tried to stop - political commentator and academic Dr Scott Burchill and West Papuan organiser Herman Wainggai talk about West Papua's fight for self-determination (SlowTv/Themonthly.com.au)

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