Tag: Papuan scholarships
Papuan governor supports advocacy group’s call for NZ scholarship
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland
Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia's Melanesian province of Papua has expressed support for a call from the Papuan Student Association...
Pax Christi helps Papuan students stranded in NZ with $1000 grant...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A movement dedicated to peaceful self-determination among indigenous groups in the Pacific is the latest group in Aotearoa to add support...
West Papuan Laurens Ikinia helps empowering fellow overseas wantoks
Jordan Fennell of ABC Pacific Beat talks to Laurens Ikinia
Living in New Zealand as a student Laurens Ikinia wanted to create a space for...
West Papuan students’ dreams dashed after scholarships suddenly cancelled
SPECIAL REPORT: By Marian Faa of ABC Pacific Beat
As a child, Efika Kora remembers watching planes glide over her remote village in the Pacific.
Transfixed,...
Why Governor Lukas Enembe is inviting Russia’s Putin to Papua
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe had an hour-long meeting with Russian Ambassador Lyudmila Vorobyeva, accompanied by the director of the Russian Centre...
Ukraine example cited in call to extend visas for abandoned Papuan...
By Matthew Scott of Newsroom
Time is running out for a group of West Papuan students in New Zealand whose scholarships were cut -- out...
West Papuan students fight to keep scholarships to study in Aotearoa
By Marena Mane of Māori Television
Indigenous students from West Papua studying at universities across Aotearoa are defying an order from the Indonesian government to...
How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya in Brisbane
Google images of a country or region can offer a wealth of information about the people and cultures that...
Mary Argue: Why have scholarships dried up for Papuan ‘band of...
COMMENTARY: By Mary Argue of the Wairarapa Times-Age
In 2016, I was on a yacht in the Bahamas.
Every morning I woke surrounded by postcard-perfect azure...
Papuan students form umbrella body, reaffirm campaign for education rights
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
An umbrella organisation representing Papuan students worldwide has been formed with a renewed commitment to strengthening their efforts to gain “quality...
