A Papuan man returns from fishing in Sentani lake to the island village of Ayopo. While Indonesian migrants have set up large scale fishing operations in West Papua the native Papuans continues to fish in a much smaller scale traditional method. Papuans complain that they are unable to find work with the Indonesian companies and that the foriegners are fishing their seas and lakes dry leaving them with depleted waters in their own lands. Tensions remain high between the two groups and...
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A Papuan man returns from fishing in Sentani lake to the island village of Ayopo. While Indonesian migrants have set up large scale fishing operations in West Papua the native Papuans continues to fish in a much smaller scale traditional method. Papuans complain that they are unable to find work with the Indonesian companies and that the foriegners are fishing their seas and lakes dry leaving them with depleted waters in their own lands. Tensions remain high between the two groups and economic discrimenation is an often sited reason for indepedance among the Papuans.
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