In the middle of Pomprab community, just five minutes’ walk from Bangkok’s Hua Lumphong railway station, stands a decades-old building. At first glance, it looks like other buildings,

It was an honor and pleasure to have a renowned guest speaker coming in from a half around the world trip especially for this high level event of HDFF to explain the situation related to smuggling issues: Mr. Karsten von Hoesslin, Senior Analyst of RiskIntelligence The internationally recognized guest speaker Mr. Karsten von Hoesslin is [...]

“Rather than feeling liberated from (Dutch) colonial rule, Papuans have felt subjugated, marginalized from the processes of economic development, and threatened by the mass influx of Indonesian settlers. They have also developed a sense of common Papuan ethnicity in opposition to Indonesian dominance of the local economy and administration. These pan-Papuan views have become the cultural and ethnic currency of a common Papuan struggle.” Chauvel (2005)