Visit with our peace workers in West Papua
Workshop: Resiliency: New Girl in School (a story from the United States)
An opportunity to experience the interactive workshops on the Power of Goodness to create peaceful, just societies, and get to know the local teams. The workshop will be sacilitated by Selly & Sint from West Papua with Wiwit from Java and Raissa from Manila.
Fri/Sat, December 9/10, 2022 at 6:30pm, Eastern USA/Canada | 6:30am, Jakarta, Indonesia | 8:30am Jayapura, West Papua | 10:30am Canberra, Australia
Click here to see other local times for the Power of Goodness event. Visitation begins following the workshop.
Visit with Selly & Sint following the workshop
Visit with Sint Aidit Tokoro and Selly Novi of the West Papua Team, 8:30pm Eastern USA/Canada | 8:30am, Jakarta, Indonesia | 10:30am Jayapura, West Papua | 12:30pm Canberra, Australia
Anzor Hashagulov, watercolor
The event is facilitated by the SE Asia PoG Team — Selly, Sint, Wiwit, Raissa
Resiliency: New Girl in School is an interactive forum for youth and adults to showcase how to use stories to bring people from different walks of life in a virtual space to experience and practice peace. The workshop is facilitated by the Asia West Pacific and European regions of Friends Peace Teams
The Power of Goodness is a collection of true stories from around the world of how people reacted peacefully and nonviolently to people who had threatened or hurt them. It depicts instructional moments in how to rely on the power of goodness in difficult situations and the amazing results of doing so.
The training will be conducted in English & Indonesian.
Other languages, bring your own interpreter.
All donations welcome!
Your contribution goes to Friends Peace Teams work in West Papua.
Suggested donations: PoG event $10-50
Team Sustainer $300-600 for West Papua.
Visit with Selly & Sint
8:30pm Eastern USA/Canada | 8:30am, Jakarta, Indonesia | 10:30am Jayapura, West Papua | 12:30pm Canberra, Australia
Sint Aidit Tokoro and Selly Novi “I’M PAPUAN, I NEED PEACE,” is our mutual commitment as a couple. For Sint, poverty occurs because of injustice and loss of love, therefore we are committed to supporting the Papuan people to build trust in order to make changes themselves. Once a year we travel to outlying, forested regions around Papua to hear people’s experiences and to support and strengthen them. People often live in forested areas because they have been displaced by armed conflict. Read More Online
West Papua is a forgotten atrocity of the 21st century. For fifty years, generations of Papuans experienced extreme forms of violence and poverty that rarely makes it to the Western news. It has a poverty rate of over 25% in 2020. Inequality is very high and many areas are under-developed. The heavy resource extraction in the region has caused environmental devastation and brutal armed conflict. Heavy deforestation by timber and palm oil companies has altered the way of life of indigenous tribes. Heavy mining destroyed the ocean, flooding the rich coral reefs with polluted sediments. The escalation of violence in December 2018 alone caused heavy displacement of more than 60,000-100,000 people and reports showed that these Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have not returned home due to security threats and ongoing armed conflict. Thousands fled to the forests making themselves exposed to extreme climate conditions without access to food, healthcare, and education. Papuans are strong, proud people who cry out and stand up for justice. But many highly traumatized and impoverished children find it difficult to get the support they need. Working with children to practice skills and experience a peaceful community is critical to heal wounds and invest in their strength and resilience in a world that continues to brutalize and exploit them.