Tag: Police

By Arnold Belau in Jayapura Police have violently broken up a peaceful action being held by the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) in...

By Pebriansyah Ariefana in Surabaya Indonesian police have revealed that police and military officers raided a Papuan student dormitory in the East Java provincial capital...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Two Papua New Guinean police vehicles travelling from Hagen to Hela in the Highlands after servicing were fired on today in...

Refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have suffered repeated violent attacks and robberies by locals, says Human Rights Watch. Video:...

The former vice-chancellor of Papua New Guinea's Unitech will seek leave from the National Court to retrieve his original PhD certificate from Italy, reports...

EMTV News' Lucy Kopana reports on the Lae squatter settlements issue in Papua New Guinea. Image: EMTV News By Lucy Kopana in Lae Following a growing...

By Scott Waide in Madang Two people are dead and a Papua New Guinean policeman is in critical condition in hospital after being wounded in...

OPINION: By Gary Juffa In the ongoing saga of stopping illegal logging in Papua New Guinea's Oro province, our facts reveal that the PNG Forest...

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News A cabinet submission by the Police Minister to dismiss Police Commissioner Steve Caldwell has revealed concerns over an...

By Glenda Willie and Jonas Cullwick Vanuatu's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism, Trade, Commerce and Ni-Vanuatu Business Joe Natuman has pleaded guilty to...

By Richard M. Nanua in Port Vila Some Vanuatu police officers have raised dissatisfaction on the implementation of the Government Remuneration Tribunal (GRT) ruling taking...

OPINION: By Ariel Gold and Taylor Morley Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi was back in court last Thursday, with the judge ruling for the third time that...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesia is beefing up its elite Detachment 88 (Densus 88) unit in light of increased threats from local and international terror...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned a brutal attack against journalist Saldi Hermanto in Timika, Papua, and called for...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop sought a court order to stop the burial of a journalist until...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The 77 Chinese citizens deported from Fiji by uniformed Chinese police in August were sex workers, according to an investigative report...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Indonesia's National Police continue to dig deeper into the Saracen group, an online syndicate accused of creating and spreading hoax news and...

ANALYSIS: By Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge in Jakarta Reports about the shooting of an indigenous Papuan by police officers early this month in Deiyai district,...

By Elizah Palme in Wabag, Papua New Guinea Duty called for two police officers and other members of Papua New Guinea's Mt Hagen Mobile Squad...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Cyber "provocation" -- through social media -- is one of the biggest challenges being faced by the Indonesia's national police (Polri)...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's general election has been rocked with many disruptions, the cancellation of the capital Port Moresby's one-day polling, and...

By Sally Pokiton in Wewak, Papua New Guinea A former Papua New Guinean police station commander, Chief Inspector Sakawar Kasieng, has been sentenced to seven...