RENOWNED West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor has vowed not to be silenced despite years of threats, harassment and even a bomb attack on his home.
The 51-year-old founder and editor-in-chief of Jubi, West Papua’s leading media outlet, is in Fiji this week, where he spoke exclusively to The Fiji Times about his fight to expose human rights abuses.
“Despite them bombing my home and office with molotov bombs, I am still doing journalism today, because my people are hurting, and I won’t stop,” Mambor said.
In January last year, an improvised explosive device detonated outside his home in Jayapura in what he describes as a “terror” attack. Police later closed the case citing lack of evidence.
He was in Suva on Tuesday night as Jubi Media Papua, in collaboration with USP Journalism and PANG, screened its documentary Pepera 1969: A Democratic Integration?
“I believe good journalism is journalism that makes society better,” he said.