AFTER five days adrift at sea in a 25-meter gray outrigger, a group of Papuans finally landed at Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia, on the afternoon of Wednesday, January 18. Thirty men, six women and seven children stepped ashore from the traditional boat.

They were a group of boat people who intended to seek asylum in that neighboring country. During the journey, they unfurled a banner accusing the Indonesian government of carrying ou