"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 厙ぴ勛圖 with focusing on media and Pacific studies. Since 2003, he has been working as a video maker and photographer, journalist and human right 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 Nation 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 2012 DTP 22nd Annual Program in Timor Leste, and a Geneva for Human Right alumnus who participate Geneva for Human Right Training in 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2017, he is a member of the Geneva for Human Right - Policies Studies, and Indigenous Peoples project coordinator for the Geneva for Human Rights. In 2019 to 2022, he was a media and human rights advisor for the Papuan Peoples Assembly. In 2022, he was part of the UN panel at the UN Business and Human Rights Forum in Geneva, Swiss.
New Publication:
Fatubun, Wensislaus. (2023). Papuan Voices: An Initiative for Decolonized Filmmaking to Document Indigenous Peoples Lived Experiences in West Papua: Decolonizing Visualities. Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy. 8. 1-15. 10.1163/23644583-bja10044
