Who's profitting from plunder in West Papua?

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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

The Interview: Lia Yewen (Maxine Betteridge-Moes, New Internationalist)

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)

Free West Papua Campaign