Tag: Protests
Concern growing in Indonesia over Rohingya ‘genocide’ crisis
By Ryan Dagur and Katharina R. Lestari in Jakarta
There is rising concern in majority Muslim Indonesia that the treatment being meted out to ethnic...
Human rights groups protest over 500 arrests of Papuan demonstrators
Jakarta-based based human rights watchdog Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Elsam) and its local partner in Papua, Elsham Papua, have condemned intimidation and...
‘We’re not losing control to “radicals”,’ says Indonesian minister
Al Jazeera's Inside Story this week features the "blasphemy" trial against Indonesia's Christian Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and asks if the 1969 law is...
Indigenous West Papuans send solidarity to Standing Rock
A previous activist video on West Papua Independence Day. Video: Free West Papua
Indigenous groups from around Oceania have sent their support to the ongoing...
Indonesian police seize public buses for 328 arrested at ‘free Papua’...
By Yudhistira Amran Saleh in Jakarta
Hundreds of Papuan demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) demanding independence for West Papua have been arrested and...
Officials fail to resolve issues with PNG LNG landowners, gas flow...
Landowners in the PNG LNG project of Hela province expressing their dissatisfaction to a government delegation this week in Hides. Video: EMTV News
By Peter...
