Aiding police brutality in West Papua? economists arguing theology, and something to do help you help the world

Welcome to another NZADDs update.

Aid and Police Violence
First up, if you haven’t already seen it, the New Zealand Herald has two very interesting reports on allegations of Indonesian police violence in West Papua.

The significance for those of us interested in New Zealand aid is captured in the first paragraphs of one of them:

“A New Zealand police training project about to start in the troubled Indonesian territory of West Papua this year has been described by Papuans as “the same as sending money to kill us”.

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