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A low-level insurgency for independence has simmered on Papua, Indonesia's easternmost island, for decades.

On Papua New Guinea, abortion is legal only earlier than 12 weeks into a pregnancy.

"The government should drop the charges against Dandois and Bourrat as a first step toward ending the gag on foreign media reporting on Papua".

Phelim Kine, HRW's deputy Asia director, said: "The Indonesian government's chokehold on Papua media coverage has effectively turned foreign journalism in the province into a criminal activity.

And their tacit support for Indonesia's position on Papua had already been rewarded handsomely: in 1967, a year after Suharto seized power in Jakarta, a new foreign-investment law was passed.

Under the reworked Pacific solution, the Australian government sent thousands of people to live in offshore camps on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and in the tiny country of Nauru.

Kerema, minor port on the Gulf of Papua, south-central Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean.

Indonesia shares land borders with Malaysia on Borneo, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea, and East Timor on the island of Timor.

The first compound on will be demolished on May 28, Papua New Guinea officials told detainees yesterday, and the centre will close completely by the end of October.

A tighter selection, focused on the "Papua New Guinea Head Hunters" variations, would have shown the series to greater advantage.

Franzalbert Joku, an adviser on the Papua desk in the Indonesian ministry of political and security affairs, said: "The incident has no impact at all".