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    Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey to the forbidden territories of West Papua

    By George Monbiot

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    At great personal risk and with forged travel documents, George Monbiot in 1988 bluffed, cheated and forced his way into the remotest tropical place in the world – the forbidden territories of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Sealed from the outside world by Indonesian forces, it was home to tribes who were unchanged and unseen for centuries? and, along with their forest land, being systematically obliterated.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreen Books
    Release dateJan 9, 2017
    ISBN9780857844477
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    Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey to the forbidden territories of West Papua
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    George Monbiot

    Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They are the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They’re the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and elsewhere. Sam has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, and is currently serving as a Lecturer in the ITALIC program at Stanford University. Their first novel Yr Dead will be published by McSweeney’s in 2024.

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      Journalist Monbiot travels through Irian Jaya, surreptitiously investigating the Indonesian policy of trans-migration, the native peoples in that region, and the operation of the Free Papua Movement (OPM). In the end he seems to have more sympathy with the struggle of the trans-migrants and the natives to survive than he does with the policies of the Indonesion military and the OPM. The highlight of the book are the several (unauthorised) expeditions into the hinterland, but reader is bound also to listen to the depressing and ugly stories that Monbiot uncovers in the urban and rural areas. At times a hard read, particularly in the earlier chapters, but worth persisting with