Tag: KNPB
Papua activist’s daughter happy with post-mortem, but suspicions linger
RNZ Pacific
The daughter of West Papuan human rights advocate Filep Karma who died on Tuesday aged 63 has confirmed that he died in a...
Protester critically injured by rubber bullet, 7 arrested in protest over...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) director Emanuel Gobay says a participant of a demonstration in Jayapura opposing the creation of new...
West Papuan leader Victor Yeimo indicted on ‘treason’ charges
RNZ Pacific
West Papuan human rights defender Victor Yeimo has been formally indicted on charges of "treason" by Indonesian authorities at the Jayapura District Court.
The...
KNPB calls on OPM, Jakarta to halt armed conflict in Papua
Suara Papua
The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) has declared that it rejects the violent approach which Indonesia continues to push in the land of...
Papuan People’s Petition calls for release of advocate Victor Yeimo
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Papuan People's Petition -- "Petisi Rakyat Papua" -- has called on the Indonesian government to release detained human rights advocate...
13 years of Indonesian harassment, but KNPB’s ‘spirit remains unbroken’
Suara Papua in Jayapura
"Since it was first established on November 19, 2008, the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) has always been confronted by many...
Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) claims that an attack on a military post in Maybrat regency earlier this month is...
Medical treatment for Victor Yeimo after police break up Papua protest
By Hengky Yeimo in Jayapura
Papuan activist Victor Yeimo has been receiving medical treatment in hospital following a police crackdown on a protest in the...
Indonesian court orders hospital treatment for accused Papuan activist Victor Yeimo
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The panel of judges hearing the case against a West Papuan activist accused of treason have ordered the prosecution to prioritise...
Papuan pro-independence activist Yeimo to stand trial next week
By Ronna Nirmala in Jakarta
A pro-independence activist in Indonesia’s Papua province will stand trial next week on charges of treason, says his lawyer.
A day...
Open letter from Papua: Indonesian state creates stalemate of injustice
OPEN LETTER: By Pastor Dr Socratez S. Yoman
The reality is that we now live under an Indonesian ruler who is anti-democratic, anti-justice, anti-freedom, anti-peace,...
Indonesian police break up Papuan petition protests in crackdown
RNZ Pacific
A series of demonstrations in the West Papua region today have been forcibly stopped by Indonesian police.
The protests were organised by a network...
International calls grow to free Papuan activist Victor Yeimo’s over health
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
International pressure is mounting on Indonesia to free West Papuan activist Victor Yeimo, the international spokesperson for the peaceful civilian West...
Lawyer Veronica Koman joins calls to free Papuan activist Victor Yeimo
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Lawyer and human rights activist Veronica Koman has spoken out about the worsening health of Papuan activist Victor Yeimo who has...
West Papua action group raises human rights issues with Taieri MP
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The local West Papua action group in Dunedin has met Taieri MP Ingrid Leary and raised human rights and militarisation issues...
Jakarta sends 21,000 troops to Papua over last three years, says...
By Arnold Belau in Nabire
Victor Yeimo, international spokesperson for the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), has revealed that over the past three years the...
Police, TNI raid Papuan secretariat in Merauke – 14 activists arrested
By Charles Maniani in Manokwari
Indonesian Mobile Brigade (Brimob) paramilitary police, national police intelligence officers (intel) and the army's special forces (Kopassus) have stormed the...
People want ‘truth’ about West Papua, say activists giving crisis update
Pacfic Media Watch Newsdesk
West Papuan activists and an Indonesian human rights lawyer criticised the recent military crackdown on the two Melanesian provinces of Papua...
Stop unlawful jailings of indigenous Papuans, AHRC warns Jakarta
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned the unlawful deprivation of liberty of Papuans which has has been happening frequently...
150 reported arrested in new West Papua crackdown on activists
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
West Papuan solidarity groups have protested over reported mass arrests of Papuan activists in the Nabire regency over the past week.
Tabloid...
Human rights groups protest over 500 arrests of Papuan demonstrators
Jakarta-based based human rights watchdog Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Elsam) and its local partner in Papua, Elsham Papua, have condemned intimidation and...
Activists condemn new crackdown on Papuans – 100 arrested in 4...
The Australian West Papua Association has condemned the arrest of 65 KNPB (National Committee of West Papua) and student activists in Sentani and 4...