Persuading the Refugees

Many of them also do not understand the political motives of why they have to live in PNG with an unclear status.

AGUSTINUS WIBOWO

Mass at Kiunga Catholic Church, Papua, New Guinea. The complex is also used for meetings between the Indonesian government and Indonesian Papuan refugees in PNG.

When I was in Kiunga, an entourage of the Papuan provincial government, accompanied by the Indonesian consulate general in Vanimo, visited Papuan refugees in Kiunga with the aim of persuading them to return to Indonesia.

I was invited by Pastor Masjon Kenedy from Flores to witness the meeting between representatives of the Indonesian government and a number of refugees held at the Kiunga Catholic Church.