Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to promote human rights of West Papuans.

The British Government follows the situation in Papua closely. Officials at our Embassy in Jakarta visit Papua and West Papua provinces regularly. Officials press the Indonesian authorities to address legitimate human rights concerns, including upholding the right of all citizens to protest peacefully, and promote the sustainable and equitable development of the provinces. The Ambassador raised the recent violence in Nduga Regency with senior officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January.