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10m 10sPhilippe Metois
Vanuatu MP calls for pressure on Indonesia to allow UN visit to West Papua
On Pacific Beat with Jordan Fennell
Vanuatu's Opposition leader Ralph Regenvanu is calling for Pacific leaders to put international pressure on Indonesia to force it to peacefully resolve violence and unrest in the provinces of West Papua and Papua.
Hundreds of soldiers have been deployed and a prominent independence campaigner arrested while internet has been cut following the death of a high ranking military general.
Mr Regenvanu said Pacific Island countries must now ramp up pressure on Indonesia to allow a visit by the UN Human Rights High Commissioner to assess the situation there.
"What we're getting is two sides of a story, we need to get an independent assessment of what's happening," he said.
Mr Regenvanu said Indonesia's strongly condemned the military crackdown in Myanmar and he believes it should be doing the same within its own country.
"This is the same approach we want to see happing in West Papua. If Indonesia can advocate for that process to happen in Myanmar they should apply the same process in West Papua," he said.
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