A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says that the Indonesian government is silencing environmental activists and journalists in Papua region, known internationally as West Papua. The report, titled Grabbed Land, Silenced Justice, examines how parts of Papua, in particular South Papua province, are seeing a greater military presence in service of massive national development projects. Harsono said that his sources on the ground in South Papua were reporting that land clearing had become increasingly militarised. “It is easier to clear the swamps and the forests in South Papua compared with the other five provinces, where resistance is higher.” “There are studies after studies showing unnatural death because of respiratory problems in Sumatra and Lakimantan, there is still no study about that in West Papua.”