ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the extent to which the articulation of Papuan identity becomes political and the way in which Papuans express it in the Orang Papua Facebook group through messages posted by members of the group. This study uses a multimodal discourse analysis as the research method. It reveals that Facebook has been used as a means to amplify and foreground several aspects of Papuan political resistance as indicated by the creation of the narrative of regionalization and internationalization. Social media not only reshape political activities but also transform intercultural communication. It opened up possibilities for intense mediated intercultural communication on individual and group levels. Facebook platforms facilitated Papuan users to create broader sense of community as indicated by the Papuan cultural and political affiliation to Melanesia and to raise international awareness of human rights violations of Papuans.
