Tag: Morning Star

By Arnold Belau in Jayapura and Wahyoe Boediwardhana in Surabaya More than 530 Papuans in several cities across Indonesia and West Papua were arrested following...

By Ivany Atina Arbi and Nethy Dharma Somba in Jakarta and Jayapura The 73rd celebration of Indonesia’s Independence Day last week was tinged with reports...

By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson last night condemned the “obscenity” of jailing West Papuans by Indonesian authorities for raising their...

By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post “We are all Melanesian,” says Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Joe Natuman. “We are family. We...

The Morning Star flag-raising at Auckland's Aotea Square yesterday. Video: Café Pacific Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence - banned...

ANALYSIS: By James Borrowdale in Auckland Like apartheid South Africa, I kept hearing. For a long time, the horrors behind the curtain thrown up by...

The new video Sorong Samara. Video: The Rize Of The Morning Star While Indonesian authorities tried to brutally suppress West papua "independence day" rallies across...

A West Papua video marking the global Morning Star flag-raising event today. About 20 academics, librarians, journalists, students and Pacific issues activists gathered at the...

West Papuans have been standing alone in their struggle for independence since Indonesia started colonisation in 1963, says a statement by a new civil...

By Anne Noonan It is now 55 years since the Morning Star flag was flown officially in West Papua for the first time on the...

Rev Robert Stringer from Melbourne, Australia, talks about his recent visit to West Papua where he met a range of community and church leaders....

From Popular Resistance By Jason MacLeod This testimony was written in collaboration with Mama Tineke and Daniel Rayer, two West Papuan activists who survived the 1998...