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Papuans plan to boycott Indonesian elections, say independence activists
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West Papuan people will not take part in Indonesia's 2019 presidential and legislative elections, say the Indonesian People's Front for West...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change documentary about Kiribati wins top FIFO prize
Anote's Ark trailer
By RNZ Pacific
A Canadian film about climate change in Kiribati and the Pacific has won the top prize at the 16th Pacific...
Killings, arrests as military ‘flush out’ Mindanao environmental defenders
By KEN E. CAGULA in Davao City
The massive human rights violations committed against indigenous peoples or Lumads and peasants are designed to silence the...
FEATURES AND ANALYSIS
Indonesian smear campaigns target Jokowi ahead of presidential election
By Ainur Rohmah in Jakarta
Fake news and hate speech are inundating Indonesia on and offline with the country’s general election just two months away...
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‘Don’t be silent,’ says defiant Maria Ressa in fight for press...
Rappler publisher condemns Duterte government's "abuse of power". Video: ABS-CBN
By Iris Gonzales in Manila
The Philippine press has seen many dark days but Maria Ressa’s...
HUMAN RIGHTS
Jubilee Australia accuses Bougainville over ‘reckless land grab’ law changes
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Autonomous Bougainville Government, led by president Dr John Momis, has been accused by a research and advocacy group of allowing...
Climate change documentary about Kiribati wins top FIFO prize
Anote's Ark trailer
By RNZ Pacific
A Canadian film about climate change in Kiribati and the Pacific has won the top prize at the 16th Pacific...
INSTITUTIONS
Indonesian smear campaigns target Jokowi ahead of presidential election
By Ainur Rohmah in Jakarta
Fake news and hate speech are inundating Indonesia on and offline with the country’s general election just two months away...
Timorese journalists protest outside Philippine embassy over Ressa arrest
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Timor-Leste Press Union has protested in front of the Philippine Embassy in the capital Dili in solidarity with indicted Journalist...
MEDIA
Indonesian smear campaigns target Jokowi ahead of presidential election
By Ainur Rohmah in Jakarta
Fake news and hate speech are inundating Indonesia on and offline with the country’s general election just two months away...
Timorese journalists protest outside Philippine embassy over Ressa arrest
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Timor-Leste Press Union has protested in front of the Philippine Embassy in the capital Dili in solidarity with indicted Journalist...
SPORTS
Five Palestinians cheering for France at the World Cup 20 years...
By Marwan Bishara
Twenty years ago, I was asked by the General Council of the Parisian suburb Seine-Saint-Denis to invite four Palestinian youth to attend...
Cook Islands, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu win medals at Games
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News
Three countries that have never won a medal in Commonwealth Games history are celebrating after bagging bronze in weightlifting,...
SOCIO-ECONOMICS
Brexit referendum asked the wrong questions, says AUT academic
By Anya Imandin
The right answer to the wrong question over the Brexit referendum is still the wrong answer, says an Auckland University of Technology...
Contribution by Pacific community more than money, says academic
By Rahul Bhattarai
The Pacific community has contributed immensely to New Zealand's economy - but that isn't the only contribution, says a leading development studies...

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Vanuatu student journalist launches first poetry collection and aims higher
By Harrison Selmen in Suva, Fiji
Vanuatu student journalist Telstar Jimmy launched her first poetry book in Fiji last week and vows bigger plans ahead...
How a talented bone carver fuses tikanga, art and wellbeing
By Irra Lee
Tikanga-based mahi toi and mental wellbeing come together in an Auckland artist’s work with pounamu and bone.
Maha Tomo, of Ngai Tahu, Rangitane,...
Films about 1965 anti-communist stigma dominate Indonesian festival
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By Joko Santoso in Purbalingga
A short film by a student whose family were victims...
Sounds of Caribbean planned for Auckland’s first steelband festival
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Auckland’s popular Silo Park will come alive to the sounds of the Caribbean next week.
Part of the Summer at Silo Park...
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Critics see Fiji’s Online Safety Act as ‘Trojan horse’ for online...
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices
Fiji’s Online Safety Act took effect this month amid concerns that it will be used to censor the internet.
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Pacific ‘smart’ thinking grows creative tension between policy and research
ANALYSIS: By Professor Derrick Armstrong
A traditional view of the tension between research and policy suggests that researchers are poor at communicating their research findings...
LATEST REVIEWS
Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua
BOOK REVIEW: By David Robie
Two damning and contrasting books about Indonesian colonialism in the Pacific, both by activist participants in Europe and New Zealand,...