Tag: Papua
Indigenous Papuan negotiators walk to forest hideout to seek release of...
Jubi News in Jayapura
An indigenous Papuan negotiation team has traversed rugged highlands forests in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian province in search of the New Zealand...
Suspicious ‘Papuan’ tweets promoted Indonesian government’s agenda
ANALYSIS: By David Engel, Albert Zhang and Jake Wallis
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has analysed thousands of suspicious tweets posted in 2021 relating...
PNG dispatches investigators to check out ‘delta threat’ on Papuan border
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea has dispatched a team of government officials to investigate a covid-19 delta variant threat in its...
‘We’ll be extinct,’ warns West Papuan churches, call for halt to...
Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura
The West Papuan Council of Churches (WPCC) has condemned the Indonesian government's Special Autonomy (Otsus) law ratified by the Jakarta parliament...
Indigenous Papuan graduates praise Aotearoa – and their governors
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland
Four fresh indigenous Papuan students have graduated with degrees from Aotearoa New Zealand universities in the past few weeks to...
The Intan Jaya conflict 3: New autonomous region, new conflict
SPECIAL REPORT: By Victor Mambor in Jayapura – final article of a three-part investigation into the Pastor Yeremia Zanambani assassination
Intan Jaya district in Papua,...
TNI accused of attacking, arresting Papuans after traffic row – girl...
By Alya Nurbaiti in Jakarta and Benny Mawel in Jayapura
Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers reportedly attacked and arrested civilians at a dormitory and nearby houses...
PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item
Pacific Media Watch
The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director,...
Brimob officer dies in Papua shooting exchange with armed group
By Nethy Dharma Somba in Jayapura
First Brigadier Berry Pramana Putra, a member of the National Police’s Mobile Brigade stationed in Timika, Papua, has been...