Tag: Morning Star flag raising
Wenda calls for West Papuan unity in the face of Jakarta’s...
Asia Pacific Report
An exiled West Papuan leader has called for unity among his people in the face of a renewed "colonial grip" of Indonesia's...
West Papua: Once was Papuan Independence Day, now facing ‘ecocide’, transmigration
On Papuan Independence Day, the focus is on discussing protests against Indonesia’s transmigration programme, environmental destruction, militarisation, and the struggle for self-determination. Te Ao...
West Papuan leader makes ‘raise our banned flag’ plea over new...
Asia Pacific Report
An exiled West Papuan leader has called on supporters globally to show their support by raising the Morning Star flag -- banned...
Filep Karma: A political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua
SPECIAL REPORT: By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta
In December 2008, I visited the Abepura prison in Jayapura, West Papua, to verify a report sent to...
Why West Papuans are raising a banned independence flag across Australia,...
BACKGROUNDER: By Stefan Armbruster
On 1 December each year, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, a small group of West Papuan immigrants and refugees...
West Papua high on agenda as MSG leaders set to convene...
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
The Pacific region's focus will shift briefly to Port Vila next week when Vanuatu...
Yamin Kogoya: ‘Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future’ – culture and...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
"Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future" is the theme chosen by the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) for their 7th Melanesian...
Jokowi visit strengthens PNG ties but sidelines West Papua human rights
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea and Indonesia say the economic and social ties between them are closer than ever.
Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visited Port...
Papuan students accused of ‘treason’ over raising Morning Star flags
Jubi News
The trial of three Papuan "free speech" students accused of treason has resumed at the Jayapura District Court this week.
The defendants -- Yoseph...
Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’...
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of "non self-governing territories", citing...
Indonesian protesters call for release of West Papua Morning Star detainees
RNZ Pacific
Activists have protested at Indonesia's Ternate Police headquarters in North Maluku demanding that the security forces release eight people arrested while commemorating West...
Happy West Papua Day – and the brutal truth about where...
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
On 30 June 2022, the Indonesian Parliament in Jakarta passed legislation to split West Papua into three more pieces.
The Papuan people's...
Pacific marks 61st year flying of Papua’s banned Morning Star flag
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Reports of threats by Indonesia against "Free West Papua" activists have come to light on the anniversary of the...
Revelations on the murky fate of flag ‘treason’ prisoners in West...
Today marks 1 December 1961 when the West Papuan national flag, the Morning Star was first raised and the date has been honoured across...
Papua’s Customary Council forms team to probe activist Filep Karma’s death
Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura
The chair of the Papua Customary Council (DAP), Dominggus Surabut, says the council along with a coalition of civil organisations have...
Papuan ex-political prisoner Filep Karma found dead on Jayapura beach
Asia Pacific Report
Human rights campaigner Filep Karma, the most famous West Papuan former political prisoner, was found dead early today on a beach in...
Morning Star flag protester in West Papua dies of mystery illness
RNZ Pacific
One of eight West Papuan activists who raised the banned Morning Star flag of independence in a protest last December has died.
Zode Hilapok's...
Seven West Papuans jailed for raising banned Morning Star flag
RNZ Pacific
Seven people have been found guilty of "treason" after raising the banned Morning Star flag in West Papua, a Melanesian region of Indonesia.
In...
Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
Sixty years ago today -- on 15 August 1962 -- the fate of a newly born nation-state West Papua was stolen...
Fiji women condemn Bainimarama government’s ‘silence’ on West Papua
By Rusiate Baleilevuka in Suva
A Fiji women's advocacy group has condemned their government for remaining silent over the human rights violations in West Papua...
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,...
Wenda slams Jakarta over Papuan student arrests, seeks support
By Kizzy Kalsakau and Jason Abel in Port Vila
The interim President of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) provisional government, Benny Wenda,...