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You may not have heard of it, but West Papua is an extraordinary place. It is home to one of the world’s most important rainforests – third only to the Amazon and Congo basins – teeming with species found nowhere else on the planet. Civilizations here stretch back tens of thousands of years.

But it’s a region that is increasingly under threat from Indonesia’s military occupation. Rapid deforestation, resource extraction and deadly human rights crackdowns are on the rise.

So who's behind the violent plunder – and who's profiting?

Read all New Internationalist's coverage of West Papua and Indonesia

Britain's complicity in the tragedy of West Papua (David Whyte, Samira Saunders, New Internationalist)

West Papua: A Green State Vision (Danny Chivers, New Internationalist)

'Every signature was an act of courage' (Danny Chivers, New Internationalist)

The world's largest deforestation project (Douglas Gerrard, London Review of Books)

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