Tag: Free Papua Organisation
OPM accuses Melanesian group of taking Jakarta’s ‘blood money’ at expense...
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan leader has condemned the Melanesian Spearhead Group for abandoning the West Papuan cause in favour of a "corrupt alliance"...
OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan...
Asia Pacific Report
The leader of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) has called for the establishment of a "United Indigenous Nations" for global justice and...
Author condemns Canberra ‘collusion’ with Jakarta on West Papua atrocities
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian human rights author and poet has accused successive federal governments of “deliberately aiding and abetting” the 1969 annexation of West...
Duncan Graham: Compromise worked in Aceh – why not West Papua?...
There are parallels between Indonesia’s Aceh where an Australian surfer faced a flogging, and West Papua where a New Zealand pilot may be facing...
OPM call for PNG’s James Marape as negotiator for NZ pilot’s...
Asia Pacific Report
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed for Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape to become a "neutral intermediary"...
Indonesian official admits new Papua provinces are to ‘counter OPM, exploit...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Papua People's Council (MRP) says that a Coordinating Ministry for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs (Kemenko Polhukam) deputy has told...
OPM day – celebrating the 1971 Papuan ‘independence proklamasi’
COMMENTARY: By Benny Wenda
We celebrated the 51st anniversary of the independence declaration of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) at Markas Victoria on July 1,...
Designating OPM as terrorists will ‘increase tension, rights abuses’
By Arjuna Pademme in Jayapura
The Indonesian government appears to be at a loss about how to quell the struggle of the Free Papua Organisation...
Conflict watchdog warns Jakarta is fuelling tension in Papua over virus
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...