Pacific Media Watch

The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned an op-ed by a pro-government military commander in Fiji last week defending curbs on freedom of...

By Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta When the first covid-19 coronavirus pandemic cases were detected in Indonesia, one doctor at least knew right away that...

By Apenisa Waqairadovu in Suva The covid-19 coronovirus pandemic is increasingly disrupting countless industries across the world with a growing global economic crisis. However, for the media...

Pacific Media Watch The Indonesian human rights advocacy group TAPOL has denounced the sentencing by the district court of Central Jakarta which found six political...

By Galih Gumelar in Jakarta A panel of judges at the Central Jakarta District Court have found six activists guilty of committing treasonous acts for...

Pacific Media Watch The United Nations rights chief has condemned countries using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to arrest journalists and restrict information, insisting...

Pacific Media Watch The PNG Media Council has called on Papua New Guinea's Joint Task Force National Operations Centre-19 to maintain "transparency and accountability" in...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of the Pacific Media Watch When Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced extending the New Zealand lockdown to past ANZAC weekend,...

Pacific Media Watch Moves to make digital platforms begin to compensate media organisations for the content they have been using for free will go some...

Pacific Media Watch Into the fourth week of  lockdown in New Zealand, and today's weekly Pacific Media Centre Southern Cross radio programme covers what...

Pacific Media Watch The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Hong Kong authorities to drop all charges against Jimmy Lai, founder and chair of...

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed to learn that Indonesia’s police have been ordered to combat not only disinformation about the coronavirus...

By Raimundos Oki in Dili Journalists in Timor-Leste are facing pay cuts amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its...

By Lani Diana Wijaya in Jakarta The trial of six Papuan activists will be held online or long-distance amid the enforcement of large scale social...

Pacific Media Watch The Covid-19 coronavirus is “exacerbating tensions” in Indonesia’s West Papua region and exposing the “shortcomings” of Jakarta government policy, warns a conflict...

By Benny Mawel in Jayapura Three officers from the Mamberamo Raya Police force have died while two others sustained wounds following a reported clash with...

Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s Police Minister Bryan Kramer has published an extraordinary attack on two leading journalists over their reporting of the Covid-19...

By Agung Sandy Lesmana and Ria Rizki Nirmala Sari in Jayapura The Free Papua Organisation (OPM) has offered a ceasefire in the independence struggle against...

Pacific Media Watch From the second week of lockdown in New Zealand, to Covid-19 in the Pacific and an "authoritarianism creep" by governments in the...

By Samantha Bagayas in Manila A campus journalist from the University of the East (UE) in the Philippines was allegedly forced to issue a public...

Pacific Media Watch Authorities are cracking down to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus in Fiji, which already has 12 cases, reports TVNZ...

By RNZ News New Zealand's Otago University will not respond to questions from Critic, the student magazine on campus, during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown. The decision...