Do West Papuan refugees really want to go home?
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In 2006, 43 asylum seekers from West Papua were granted refugee status in Australia. This was a controversial decision, given that Indonesia is a powerful trade partner; but even the Howard government acknowledged that West Papua isn’t a safe place to be. Yesterday the Indonesian foreign minister Hassan Wirayuda said that some of those refugees wanted to return. But is it really true?
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