REVIEW: West Papua’s highway of blood and betrayal

Abstract

The Road: Uprising in West Papua, by John Martinkus. Carlton, Vic: Black Books Inc. 2020. 114 pages. 978-1-760-64242-6 The rugged mountainous highlands of New Guinea stretch from the Owen Stanley range in the east of the independent state of Papua New Guinea through the Star mountains straddling the border with Indonesian-ruled West Papua westwards through the perpetually snow-capped Puncak Jaya, at 4884m the highest peak.

Keywords

• foreign correspondence
• foreign correspondents
• Indonesia
• investigative journalism
• reviews
• Timor-Leste