Tag: Student protest
Papuan protesters claim police using covid rapid tests to curb free...
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesian police have asked participants at a protest action against Special Autonomy (Otsus) in Papua to take covid-19 rapid tests at the...
West Papuans reject Jakarta plan for extension of special autonomy
Asia Pacific Report
The indigenous people of West Papua have rejected the extension of special autonomy and the planned expansion of new provinces announced by...
Wenda accuses Indonesian special forces over Papua ‘hunting ground’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Indonesian special forces are turning West Papua into "more of a hunting ground", warns an exiled Papuan leader in response to...
Crispin Maslog: Remembering Martial Law – courageous journalism lessons
REWIND: By Crispin Maslog
Filipinos under 48 today were not yet born when Martial Law was imposed on the Philippines by the late and unlamented...
Papuan students in Bali protest over New York pact – demand...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Bali chapter of the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) has held a weekend protest action at the Renon traffic circle in...
Papuan activists in Yogya protest against extended special autonomy
By IndoLeft News in Yogyakarta
Papuan students and activists have held a protest action against Special Autonomy
(Otsus) Chapter II at the zero kilometre point in...
Seven Papuan protesters jailed for treason amid drop charges call
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta
A court in East Kalimantan has found seven Papuans guilty of treason in separate trials for their involvement in antiracism...
Nauru president accuses Fiji group of ‘hijacking’ USP in vendetta
Pacific Media Watch
Nauru President Lionel Aingimea has accused a "small group" of Fiji officials of "hijacking" the 12-country regional University of the South Pacific...
Special Report – The unmasking of Hong Kong
A special multimedia report by Hugh Bohane in Hong Kong
As China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the birth of its Communist Party on October...
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...
6 killed as post-election Prabowo protest turns into Jakarta riots
Protests to challenge the presidential election results have escalated in the capital of Jakarta for two nights running. Video: Jakarta Post
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Jakarta...
Amnesty Indonesia calls for justice over 1998 Trisakti student shootings
By Devina Halim in Jakarta
Amnesty International Indonesia is calling for justice and truth from the government over the Trisakti student shooting tragedy through legal...
Protests over ‘captive’ photojournalist, Confucius film featured on 95bfm
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 95bfm Jemima Huston is joined by AUT Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie and reporter Rahul Bhattarai about the...
Media freedom groups protest over detained Bangladeshi photojournalist
By Global Voices
Late on the night of August 5, 2018, award-winning Bangladeshi photographer and activist Dr Shahidul Alam was forcibly abducted from his house...
Indonesian police block planned Papuan student protest in Yogya
By Yuliawati in Jakarta
Scores of Indonesian police blocked Papuan students in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta who planned to hold a demonstration on...
Philippines youth groups mark Martial Law’s 44th anniversary with protests
By a special correspondent in Manila
To mark the 44th anniversary of Martial Law in the Philippines today and to call to mind the atrocities...
UPNG’s ban on student protest leaders ‘illegal’, claims lawyer
By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby
The University of Papua New Guinea administration's decision to ban eight students from continuing their studies is illegal,...
UPNG protest student leaders banned from studies
By Peter Kinjap in Port Moresby
The University of Papua New Guinea (UNPG) Administration has permanently excluded all the Student Representative Council (SRC) members and...
Students’ lawyer served with contempt charges over UPNG campus unrest
By Peter Kinjap in Port Moresby
The University of Papua New Guinea has served a contempt charge against the Students Representative Council lawyer Laken Lepatu...
PNG PM directs police investigation into brutal student killing
The group of unknown men who killed Romanong in his dorm room are also accused of setting fire to various buildings on campus after...
WJEC16: ‘That day I saw the power of media, and how...
In this "PNG Diehard" citizen video last month, Papua New Guinea police are seen and heard open-firing at students from the University of PNG...
WJEC16: Journalism academic calls for probe on PNG student unrest media...
By David Robie
A Papua New Guinea media educator today called for an investigation into coverage of the two months of protest at the nation’s...