Tag: Morning Star

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific journalist in Port Vila The leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Benny Wenda, has expressed confidence...

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...

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...

Asia Pacific Report Papuan people throughout the territory of West Papua have held huge demonstrations of support for full membership of the United Liberation Movement...

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...

Asia Pacific Report Twenty West Papuans who were fundraising for the victims of tropical cyclones in Vanuatu were today arrested by Indonesian police in Jayapura,...

Asia Pacific Report Indonesia has protested to the Fiji government after Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka met with a Papuan independence leader in a morale boost...

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...

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...

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...

Today marks 1 December 1961 when the West Papuan national flag, the Morning Star was first raised and the date has been honoured across...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

RNZ Pacific The president of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua, Benny Wenda, has arrived to a warm welcome in Port Vila from London...

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,...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesian police have been accused of beating two Papuan students with rattan sticks - severely injuring them -- while 20 other...

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,...

Shocking footage has been circulating on social media showing National Armed Forces (TNI) Indonesian military helicopters firing indiscriminately at civilian villages in Suru-Suru District,...

By Dhias Suwandi in Jayapura Eight youths have been declared suspects on charges of makar (treason, subversion, rebellion) for flying the banned Papuan independence flag...