Tag: West Papua human rights
Papuan activists accuse Jakarta over mounting ‘brutal’ repression, arrests
Jubi News in Jayapura
Esther Haluk, a women’s rights activist from GARDA Papua, is among West Papuan activists who have condemned a declining state of...
OPM leader calls on Biden to take proactive role in ending...
Asia Pacific Report
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed to US President Joe Biden for a “proactive role” in ending Indonesia’s “unlawful...
Open letter plea for NZ to back West Papua peaceful hostage...
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand advocacy group has appealed to the government to heed the call of West Papuan church leaders for Indonesia to...
Viktor Yeimo denounces Jakarta’s ‘systemic racism’ in Papua in his treason...
Jubi News
A West Papuan leader, defending himself against treason charges, has denounced "systemic racism" by Indonesian authorities in the Melanesian region in a court...
Open letter: Canberra must call on UN to ‘rectify breaches’ over...
Café Pacific
An author and human rights advocate for West Papuan self-determination today sent an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the...
‘I’m alive, healthy . . . stop the bombs,’ says kidnapped...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens, who is being held by pro-independence fighters in West Papua, appears well in a newly-released video.
It comes as...
UK minister grilled on West Papua human rights in House of...
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
The United Kingdom's commitments to upholding human rights have come under question this week over the West Papua issue,...
Wenda accuses Indonesia of imposing ‘martial law’ abuses on West Papua
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan leader has accused Indonesia of imposing a "martial law" on the Melanesian region in response to the kidnapping of...
Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papua rebels extended, says...
RNZ Pacific
The authorities in Indonesia's Papua region say the search for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by West Papua Liberation Movement freedom fighters...
West Papua Liberation Army fighter shot dead, claims Indonesia
RNZ Pacific
A joint force of Indonesian military and police are claiming to have shot dead a member of the West Papua National Liberation Army...
Two countries, two kidnappings – Port Moresby shows Jakarta how it’s...
ANALYSIS: By David Robie
Two countries. A common border. Two hostage crises. But the responses of both Asia-Pacific nations have been like chalk and cheese.
On...
West Papua: ‘We’re proud Fijians today’ over Rabuka support
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
"We are proud Fijians and Melanesians today" -- Fiji Council of Social Services executive director Vani Catanasiga said this in...
Rabuka backs call for West Papuan independence group to fully join...
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital and social media journalist, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is the first Fijian...
Why a NZ pilot is a pawn in the West Papua...
ANALYSIS: By Camellia Webb-Gannon, University of Wollongong
“Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is -- no one ever had anything bad to say...
Yamin Kogoya: The fate of Papua’s governor Enembe – where is...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
On Friday 10 February 2023, it will be one month since the Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was "kidnapped" at a...
Benny Wenda: A West Papuan Christmas message
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: By Benny Wenda
As 2022 draws to a close, I would like to thank everyone who has supported the West Papuan struggle this...
Rights group says security forces unlawfully killed 72 Papuans in past...
RNZ Pacific
A West Papua rights group claims Indonesian police and soldiers have carried out at least 72 extrajudicial killings over the past year.
The report...
Papua’s Customary Council forms team to probe activist Filep Karma’s death
Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura
The chair of the Papua Customary Council (DAP), Dominggus Surabut, says the council along with a coalition of civil organisations have...
Filep Karma: A Papuan human rights hero and huge loss...
OBITUARY: By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta
Filep Karma, a prominent Papuan activist and former political prisoner, was found dead yesterday on a beach in...
Morning Star flag protester in West Papua dies of mystery illness
RNZ Pacific
One of eight West Papuan activists who raised the banned Morning Star flag of independence in a protest last December has died.
Zode Hilapok's...
Indonesian police arrest Buchtar Tabuni and two Papuan ‘ministers’
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesian police have arrested Buchtar Tabuni, one of West Papua’s most important liberation leaders, along with three other United Liberation Movement for...
West Papua atrocity – a warning to Jakarta for impartial investigation
COMMENT: By Robbie Newton of Human Rights Watch
Authorities arrested six Indonesian soldiers last week suspected in the killing and mutilation of four Indigenous Papuans...