. ♪♪♪ [singing] ♪♪♪ sally: we start our journey in port moresby where the morning star flag, the symboldependence, is being celebrated. musician ronny kareni wears the colors with pride. ronny kareni: for me, it represents my people and the significance of how many people left suffered or died or imprisoned just for that morning star flag. sally: ronny fled from west papua nearly 40 years ago and now lives in australia. the performers are drumming up support for their compatriots across the border. ronny: [speaking foreign language] sally: in indonesian-controlled west papua, flying this flag can get you arrested or worse. ronny: it makes what we are fighting for and representing that morning star become so significant that it is something that we will die for. ♪ sorong samarai, one people, one soul, one destiny ♪ ♪ sorong samarai, we've got to keep on pushing ♪ sally: the band, sorong samarai, sings the soundtrack of the independence struggle. it calls for the island of new guinea to be one nation from sorong in the west to samarai in the east. while papua new guinea is independent, we