Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Indonesian counterpart on conflict in West Papua.

Neither the Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson), nor his Ministerial team, have yet had an opportunity to discuss West Papua with their Indonesian counterparts. Our Ambassador to Indonesia visits Papua and West Papua annually, most recently in January 2016. During these visits, he meets key stakeholders in the regional government, police, universities and other officials and raises a range of issues with them regarding the situation in West Papua.