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Indonesia’s 1965 purge – the persecuted and persecutors in safe space
By Ati Nurbaiti in Jakarta
A national symposium on the Indonesian bloodshed of 1965 has brought together the persecuted, the persecutors and their respective families.
Seating...
Sky Pacific clearing cyclone backlog, planning new office
By Allison Penjueli in Suva
Clearing out the backlog of customer care jobs after Cyclone Winston remains the major challenge for the Pacific's largest pay...
AWPA condemns arrest of 41 West Papua activists in Jayapura
Indonesian security forces stage a brutal attack on a Papuan taxi driver during this earlier rally in Jayapura on 13 April 2016 - see...
Mainstream NZ media takes pasting at multicultural summit
Mainstream New Zealand news media were heavily criticised for "misrepresentations, sensationalism and exclusions" at the first of three national summits in Auckland today aimed...
Marap indigenous group claims back 3 oil palm plantations in Papua
By Harun Rumbarar in Jayapura
Indigenous landowners from the Marap people in Arso in Papua's Keeron regency have this week invoked customary law to take...
Agnes Masoe: Accounting and the Pacific advantage
OPINION: By Agnes Masoe
As Pacific people we have a bit of a head start when it comes to professional careers like accounting – thanks...
Powerful quake strikes Vanuatu but tsunami alert dropped
By Bob Makin and BMO News
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu about 1km off Malekula early today, seismologists...
MSG leaders summit postponed but big West Papua rally goes ahead
By Jane Joshua and Len Garae in Port Vila
The Melanesian Spearhead Group Special Leaders Summit scheduled to be held in the Vanuatu capital of...
President Widodo ‘lying about 1965 mass killings’, says rights chief
By Abraham Utama in Jakarta
National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Deputy Commissioner Dianto Bachriadi claims Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is lying about the...
Welcome back to Vanuatu message for NZ tour agents
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
A group of 16 New Zealand-based travel agents, tourism industry representatives and media professionals were welcomed "back" to Vanuatu...
Pray For West Papua – the first doco on Octo Mote’s...
West Papuans in Port Moresby calling to Christians across the world to pray for peace for West Papua earlier this year. Video: EM TV
Pray...
Manus Island detention centre to close following PNG court ruling
The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has announced the Manus Island immigration detention centre will be closed down after the country's Supreme Court...
Daku has a climate message for the world: ‘Tell them to...
By Ami Dhabuwala and TJ Aumua in Daku village, Tailevu, Fiji
A 50-minute drive out of Suva city is Daku village, a community of 332...
Images: Fiji’s Daku village tackles the floodwaters problem
Daku village, less than an hour's drive from Suva in Tailevu, near Nausori, on the main Fiji island of Viti Levu, is a living...
Rick Wayman: We stand with the Marshall Islands
Yesterday marked two years since the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) took a courageous stand against the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations.
On April 24,...
PNG Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers illegal
Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal.
A copy of the PNG Supreme Court judgment...
Philippine military vow to bring Abu Sayyaf to justice after beheading
Al Jazeera's Jamela Alindogan reports on the Philippine army defending its operations against the armed Abu Sayyaf group in the south of the country...
PM O’Neill accuses Somare and Morauta of political ‘sour grapes’
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says recent calls by former prime minister and the country's founding leader Sir Michael Somare to leave...
Paris climate deal signing ceremony – what it means and why...
By Damon Jones and Bill Hare
The world took a collective sigh of relief in the last days of 2015, when countries came together to...
Survivors of Indonesia’s 1965 purge desperately seek end to stigma
After more than half a century without clarity on the identity of perpetrators or those who orchestrated the event, some survivors and victims of...
Timor-Leste’s veterans to boost Australia ties on ANZAC Day
Twenty-nine veterans of Timor-Leste’s struggle for national liberation will be visiting Australia next week to meet with members of the local veteran community and...
How Indonesia silences West Papuan independence supporters overseas
While abroad for a study exchange year in Melbourne, Connor Woodman discovered that Indonesia’s effort to thwart the independence movement of its troubled Papuan...