By Andrew MathiesonExiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji — in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity — to hold the greater Pacific region to account and stand against Indonesia’s ongoing media blackout in addition to its human rights abuses. Their story of the Papuan territory comes after Dutch colonialists who had seized Western New Guinea, handed control of the East Indies back to the Indonesians in 1949 before The Netherlands eventually withdrew from Papuan territory in 1963. “We want to bring West Papua back to the Pacific — not just geographically, but politically, culturally, and emotionally.”Press freedom in West Papua has become most dire more over the past 25 years, West Papuan journalists have said. Mambor explained that the West Papua Daily remained a pillar of a vocal media movement to represent the wishes of the West Papuan people. Despite the personal risks, the “enemy of the state” remains committed to highlighting the stories of the West Papuan people.