West Papuan Rebels

In a makeshift rebel training camp hidden deep in the jungle, rebel fighters of the Free West Papua Movement continue their decades old struggle against Indonesian rule.
As William Lloyd George writes in this weeks’ NEWSWEEKthis remote, sparsely populated land is rich with copper, gold, and timber.
Photographer KC Ortiz documents the rebels’ rarely seen life in the jungle.


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