This article charts the dynamics and trajectory of citizen media activism in West Papua’s fight for freedom which has progressed from not even registering in news rooms around the world to influencing sub-regional and regional bodies. Citizen media has played an essential role in this transformation. In 1998, when the Indonesian military massacred more than 100 unarmed West Papuans in Biak Island, it took weeks and months to get the news out. Back then West Papua was a military operations area (Daerah Operasi Militer). Few journalists were willing to risk travelling into the country to get the story out. In January 2016 West Papua remains an occupied colony. The Indonesian government still tries to curtail open access to West Papua for foreign journalists but courageous young people armed with cell phones are finding ways to bypass the government’s failed attempt at an informational blockade and it is making a difference. West Papuans are now members of the Melanesian Spearhead Group and the Pacific Island Forum is starting to take notice of the Pacific’s longest running self-determination and decolonisation struggle.

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西巴布亚的公民媒体和公民抵抗

本文描绘了西巴布亚争取自由的公民媒体激进主义的动态和轨迹，该斗争从甚至不在世界各地的新闻室注册发展到影响次区域和区域机构。公民媒体在这一转变中发挥了重要作用。1998 年，当印度尼西亚军队在比亚克岛屠杀了 100 多名手无寸铁的西巴布亚人时，花了数周甚至数月的时间才将消息公布出来。当时西巴布亚是一个军事行动区（Daerah Operasi Militer）。很少有记者愿意冒着前往该国的风险去报道这个故事。2016 年 1 月，西巴布亚仍然是一个被占领的殖民地。印度尼西亚政府仍然试图限制外国记者对西巴布亚的开放访问，但勇敢的年轻人手持手机正在想方设法绕过政府失败的信息封锁尝试，这正在产生影响。西巴布亚人现在是美拉尼西亚先锋集团的成员，太平洋岛屿论坛开始注意到太平洋地区持续时间最长的自决和非殖民化斗争。