Below is an article published by ABC Radio Australia:

An Australian millionaire is funding television ads across South East Asia urging Jakarta to allow human rights monitors into the Indonesian province of Papua.

Indonesia's Papua, a former Dutch colony that came under Jakarta's rule after a vote in the 1960s, has seen a low-level separatist insurgency for decades under the West Papuan name.

Earlier versions of the advertisements were broadcast in Australia last month, and urge the Australian government to insert a human rights clause in the new security treaty with Indonesia.

The campaign's financier, Ian Melrose, was also behind advertisements run in Australia in 2005 disputing Australia's claims, over East Timor, to oil and gas revenue from the Timor Sea.

He told Radio Australia's Graeme Dobell that he hopes the latest advertisements will embarrass Indonesia and Australia into action.

"Australia and Indonesia are sensitive to other countries' opinions," he said.

"Airing the issue and letting everyone know that what's happening at present isn't right, isn't honourable, is going to cause a sensitivity to both governments.

"They may both work on implementing human rights monitoring in West Papua and access for journalists."

He said allowing journalists access to Papua will improve human rights "because the Indonesian military won't want to be caught out doing the things that it does so well".

The Australia-Indonesia security treaty has been signed and is awaiting ratification by Australia's parliamentary Treaties Committee.

Mr. Melrose and his supporters are hoping their pressure will convince parliamentarians to seek an amendment before ratification.