West Papua's Indigenous people are urging a boycott of several major products, such as KitKat and Oreo, which contain palm oil sourced from their territory. Activists claim the deforestation for agriculture by these companies is connected to violence against local communities and ecological destruction. Over 90 West Papuan groups endorse this boycott until self-determination is recognized. Raki Ap from the United Liberation Movement for West Papua emphasizes that these brands are complicit in human rights abuses in a region rich in natural resources yet struggling under Indonesian control since 1963.
These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they've lived for thousands of years.
This is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who they're dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua.
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