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This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the very niche and kind of geeky details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to Raki App. He's an activist of the Free West Papal campaign

and he's going to be talking to us about what is basically

an uprising going on right now by the West Papal people against the Indonesian government

in their areas.

It's a conflict you hear very little about and right now

the Indonesian government has turned the internet off and there's very little

information able to get out of West Papua. We know at least 10 people have been

killed and the people are continuing the protest so

Raki's going to give us an idea about the history of the conflict and why you should be

paying attention to it right now. If you like what we're doing and you want the

bonus episodes please do consider supporting us

on the Patreon at Patreon.com slash Popular Front. Before we talk about what is essentially an uprising right now,

maybe you can tell us what is West Papua, you know, like a lot of people unfortunately don't even know where this place is have never heard of it and it's a very long running kind of conflict.

Okay, cool. So for the people who don't know where was pop was located, it is just right above Australia,

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