Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his Departments policies of the research on pathways to peace in West Papua by the Politics of Papua Project at the University of Warwick.

Embassy officials carry out regular assessments of the political and human rights situation in Papua and West Papua provinces including keeping up to date with research and visiting the province (most recently in November 2017). Where we have concerns, these are raised with the Government of Indonesia. Officials were not consulted prior to the publication of the research on pathways to peace, but UK government officials met researchers from the Politics of Papua Project in August 2016.