Wensislaus Fatubun

"Film supports us to win the battle of silence and creates a space for us because we are going to win the truth." 

Wensislaus Fatubun is a PhD student at the University of Canterbury with a focus on media and Pacific studies. Since 2003, he has been working as a video maker and photographer, journalist and human rights defender with Indigenous communities in West Papua, Kalimantan, Flores Islands, and North Sulawesi. "I use video to advocate in the region and at the United Nations for human rights, especially Indigenous Peoples' rights." He had been writing investigative reports and making films since 2006. From 2008 until 2012, he worked as a program manager for the Jakarta-based Catholic Church group Justice Peace Integrity and Creation (JPIC MSC). In 2011, he founded the Papuan Voices, and in 2013, he founded the Dayak Voices and initiated the Ranu Welum in Kalimantan. Previously, he worked as a coordinator for monitoring, investigation and research for the Secretariat for Justice and Peace (SKP) in Merauke, Southern Papua province. He is a Diplomacy Training Program alumnus and participated in the 2012 DTP 22nd Annual Program in Timor Leste, and a Geneva for Human Rights alumnus who participated Geneva for Human Rights Training in 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2017, he has been a member of the Geneva for Human Rights - Policies Studies, and Indigenous Peoples project coordinator for the Geneva for Human Rights. From 2019 to 2022, he was a media and human rights advisor for the Papuan People’s Assembly. In 2022, he was part of the UN panel at the UN Business and Human Rights Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

New Publication:

Fatubun, Wensislaus. (2023). Papuan Voices: An Initiative for Decolonized Filmmaking to Document Indigenous People’s Lived Experiences in West Papua: Decolonizing Visualities. Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy. 8. 1-15. 10.1163/23644583-bja10044

Majelis Rakyat Papua. (2021). Hilangnya Rasa Aman di Papua Barat, Laporan Kelompok Kerja Hak Asasi Manusia Majelis Rakyat Papua 2021. Edited by Wensislaus Fatubun. Jayapura: Majelis Rakyat Papua.

Majelis Rakyat Papua. (2019). Kekerasan Tak Berujung di Nduga, Laporan Majelis Rakyat Papua 2019. Edited by Wensislaus Fatubun and Basilius Triharyanto. Jayapura: Majelis Rakyat Papua.

Fatubun Wensislaus, Cinémas autochtones: Des représentations en mouvements dalam De la Plume à l’Ecran, (France: CICADA-DIALOG & GITPA,2019).