7,000 miles from Hollywood to West Papua.
In a new PSA for the Isolated Ambassador for Peace
campaign, the actor and father of three urges the
western world to take action to stop what he calls the
Indonesian military's genocide of the Papuan
population.
"In one of the most remote parts of the world, the
existence of an entire culture is being threatened," the
actor says in the PSA (released exclusively to E! News).
"Under the canopy of the densest rainforest in the
world they thought they could keep it a secret from us.
They think we won't care. They actually believe we
won't do something about it. Now it's time to do
something and it starts with you."
Military forces have killed an estimated one million
Papuans, according to the PSA.
Phillippe asks supporters to go to isolated.tv to sign a
petition demanding that the U.S. congress revisit a
resolution to stop the human rights abuses in West
Papua. "Papuans endure torture and murder carried
out by the Indonesian military every day for simply
living on their own land," he says.
Phillippe's interest in the area began with Isolated, a
documentary he produced and narrated that was
intended to be about a group of surfers who traveled to
the most remote parts of Indonesia to ride waves that
had never been ridden before. However, the film took a
different turn when the surfers and filmmakers learned
more about the plight of the Papuans. "What began as
search to find untouched waves became a mission to
uncover the truth," Phillippe says in a trailer for the
documentary.
Isolated is available through VOD platforms, including
iTunes, Amazon and Vimeo.
Isolated is one of the few films that Phillippe has been
involved with that his and his ex-wife Reese
Witherspoon's kids Ava and Deacon are allowed to
watch. The proud father in him beamed to E! News last
year at the doc's premiere at the Maui Film Festival,
"My son who's 9 years old watched it twice and was
really moved by it and wants to do something."
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