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Podcast: Radioactive Show
Episode: Resisting Tambrauw Military Base in West Papua
Description: Today on the show we speak with Yohanis Mambrasar, lawyer and resident of Tambrauw, West Papua about the community campaign against the construction of a new military base, the 1810 Tambrauw Kodim, along with several smaller military posts that the Indonesian National Army (TNI) and the Government of Indonesia are planning to build without consultation or consent from the Indigenous landowners.The TNI has already mobilized hundreds of troops to Tambrauw and this incresed military presence is suspected to be connected with recent mineral explorations in the area.Determined to avoid the conflict and violence that occur when militarism and extractivism...