Being arrested outside the Darwin Indonesian Consulate in 1999 is longtime East Timor supporter Rob Wesley-Smith who recently raised the plight of West Papua at a Freedom Forum in the Northern Territory capital. In a talk he outlined the takeover of both countries by Indonesia and developments , with statistics of deaths , more than 200,000 in East Timor , a claimed 500,000 plus in West Papua . On Radio National late one night months ago several callers made sensational claims about events inside West Papua including misuse of aid by a member of an official's family and a fight among Indonesian troops in a café in which bullet holes were covered and the matter hushed up. The Australian media apparently did not think this worthy of follow up or turned a deaf ear, preferring the mindless Kardashian handbag beat, sport and more sport, celebrities , crackers up the clacker . It would be nice if Foreign Minister Julie Bishop buttonholed Indonesia about the situation in West Papua .
