How has the ICJ been involved?
Indonesia does not permit independent human rights bodies to visit West Papua, however the Australian Section of the ICJ has undertaken 3 missions to PNG over the last 20 years to witness the plight of the West Papuan refugees first hand. The mission statement for the latest mission in 2003 was to investigate and report on the situation of the West Papuan refugees including those persons who crossed in the 1980s as well as persons arriving in recent years.