Tag: Protest
Papuan protests continue as Widodo urges forgiveness
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Protests are spreading in Indonesia-ruled West Papua in response to harassment of Papuans during explosive incidents in Javanese cities...
Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43
By Ghinan Salman in Surabaya
As many as 43 Papuan students were taken to the district police headquarters after Indonesian police fired teargas and forced...
RSF condemns journalist assaults as Hong Kong violence escalates
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
As four more journalists were assaulted in the Hong Kong area last Sunday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the...
Gallery: Guardianship photo shoot with the Ihumātao ‘protectors’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre's Del Abcede joined the Ihumātao "protectors" protest at the weekend to soak up the atmosphere of guardianship...
Iwi against Ihumātao occupation social media pages shut down
By Charlotte Muru-Lanning in Auckland
Controversial social media pages belonging to the New Zealand iwi opposing the occupation at Ihumātao were shut down this morning.
The...
Ihumātao: Powerful powhiri welcomes state ministers to protest site
By RNZ News
About 2000 people showed their support as New Zealand protests against a controversial proposed housing development at Ihumātao in South Auckland entered...
Police drop trespass charges against French TV crew at Adani protest
French television journalist Hugo Clément speaking out about the arrest in Queensland on Monday. Video: Euronews
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has...
Indonesian schoolgirls tell Trump ‘take back your toxic rubbish’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Two school girls from East Java, Aeshnina Azzahra (alias Nina), 12, and Zahira Zade, 11, have sent hand-written protest letters to...
Opposition MP jailed – Nauru 19 protesters await appeal ruling
By RNZ Pacific
A Nauru opposition MP has been jailed on an assault charge.
Jaden Dogireiy has been given a sentence of 13 months, which means...
Thousands of NZ students demand urgent climate action
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Thousands of school students, teachers and climate advocates gathered at cities across New Zealand today to kickstart the global Strike 4...
Students across NZ to kick off global climate change day of...
By Hannah Williams of Te Waha Nui
Students across New Zealand are striking today as part of a worldwide day of action over global warming...
Students call for Indonesian election boycott, alternative political force
By Chen Toisuta in Ambon, Maluku
Scores of students from the Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have...
Human rights watchdog calls for police probe into ‘unclear’ Papua killings
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Indonesian police should investigate a Papuan armed group’s killing of at least 17 people, including a soldier, at a construction area...
UN official defends West Papuan rights – free speech, peaceful assembly
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
West Papuan rights to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly have been defended by the Office of the UN High Commissioner...
‘Business as usual’ vows Parkop after storming of PNG Parliament, rioting
The National Parliament of Papua New Guinea came under attack yesterday as angry police and corrections officers stormed into Parliament Haus and destroyed the...
Hundreds of protesting PNG police move in on Parliament over pay
By RNZ Pacific
Hundreds of Papua New Guinea police have descended on Parliament Haus in the Port Moresby suburb of Waigani demanding payments they say...
Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces a K22 million (NZ$10 million) aid project to help polio vaccination for Papua New Guineans at the St...
Six activists detained for staging palm oil shipboard rally, says Greenpeace
By Ivany Atina Arbi in Jakarta
Six Greenpeace activists have reportedly been detained by the captain of the tanker Stolt Tenacity for staging a rally...
Nepal’s new legal codes spark medical, media protests and divide nation
Nepal has recently updated its legal system with new civil and criminal codes. However, writes Rahul Bhattarai of Asia Pacific Report, failure to consult...
Plea to Jokowi: Free all Maluku and West Papuan political prisoners
OPINION: By Glenn Fredly in Jakarta
The remarks of renowned American philosopher John Dewey, "If you want to establish some conception of a society, go...
Oil victory thanks to NZ ‘people power’, says Greenpeace chief
By Rahul Bhattarai
Greenpeace executive director Russel Norman praised the “people power” that gained an important victory in the “oil war” when the Rainbow Warrior...
Gallery: From fighting nukes to stopping oil – Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior 3, will arrive in Auckland tomorrow on the next stage of her "Making Oil History" tour...