Tag: West Papua human rights
Killing of Papuan clergyman sparks information clash, congregations flee
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Tabernacle Bible Church of Indonesia's congregation from the Intan Jaya regency in Papua has fled into the forests in fear...
Military accused of shooting dead a Papuan pastor – call for...
By Yanuarius Weya in Jayapura
A pastor has been shot dead at the weekend allegedly by the Indonesian military, sparking protests by church groups and...
Papua Solidarity returns rights lawyer Veronica Koman’s scholarship grant
By IndoLeft News/CNN in Jakarta
The symbolic handover of money to Indonesia's Finance Ministry Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) to repay scholarship funds received by...
Jakarta asks Papuan rights lawyer Koman to return scholarship money
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Human rights activist and lawyer Veronica Koman says the Indonesian government has asked her to return scholarship money amounting to 773...
President’s order blamed for Nduga rights violations in Papua
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's instruction for the military and the police to hunt down armed pro-independence rebels accused of being...
Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution
COMMENT: By Benny Wenda, chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua
For over 50 years, Indonesia has been promising West Papua "autonomy". Each...
Webinar panel on West Papua sharply divided over media ‘black hole’
The “Understanding information about the land of Papua " webinar livestream. Video: Redaksi Jubi
Pacific Media Watch
A senior Indonesian government official and a New Zealand...
Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A Papuan church leader and advocate for social justice has penned an open letter to the Indonesian government calling for justice...
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...
Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter
COMMENT: By Evi Mariani in Jakarta
The giant wave of the United States’ #BlackLivesMatter campaign has now swept across Indonesia. A number of groups have...
Police hunt four covid-suspect Papuan prisoners after escape from hospital
Indonesian police in West Papua say four prisoners isolated for suspected covid-19 infection have escaped from Bhayangkara Police Hospital and are still at large.
A...
‘#PapuanLivesMatter’: George Floyd’s death exposes double standards
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta
As the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while being arrested in the United States, sparks a...
Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules
By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie in Jakarta
A panel of judges at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by civil...
Jakarta Six activists for Papua freedom convicted of treason set free
By Amanda Siddharta in Jakarta
Six activists charged with treason in Jakarta for organising a protest rally for independence last August outside the presidential palace...
West Papua author warns conflict is ‘re-igniting’ with new weapons, youth
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Australian war correspondent and investigative journalist John Martinkus warns the West Papuan conflict is "reigniting" and...
Southern Cross features ‘The Road’ and Papuan repression
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi discusses a new book today on West Papua, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, reviewed...
West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of destruction not...
REVIEW: By David Robie
The 4300-km Trans-Papua Highway costing some US$1.4 billion was supposed to bring “wealth, development and prosperity” to the isolated regions of...
Inside Indonesia’s Secret War for West Papua – Foreign Correspondent
The 30-minute Foreign Correspondent report by ABC.
By ABC News Indepth
Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence fighters and...
TAPOL condemns cancellation of early release for Jakarta Five prisoners
Pacific Media Centre
TAPOL has condemned the political decision to cancel the early release of five political prisoners that were arrested in Jakarta for demonstrating...
‘Shut Freeport mine’ plea by Mimika regent after workers test positive
Pacific Media Watch
The regent of Mimika in Papua has urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to temporarily close a mine in the regency owned by...
Indigenous Papuans initiate own lockdowns in face of coronavirus
By Basten Gokkon of Mongabay
Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia’s Papua region have imposed a sweeping lockdown in an attempt to minimise the...
63 political prisoners in Indonesia file urgent appeals amid virus pandemic
By Jennifer Robinson and Veronica Koman with the support of TAPOL
Sixty-three political prisoners detained on treason charges in Indonesia have made a joint urgent...