Tag: West Papua human rights

SPECIAL REPORT: By Victor Mambor in Jayapura - first of a three-part investigation into the Pastor Yeremia Zanambani assassination. The Papua Province Humanitarian Team for...

By Benny Mawel in Jayapura The enforcement of human rights and the resolution of various cases of human rights violations in Papua in 2020 has...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The commander of the Indonesian Army Military Police (Danpuspomad), Lieutenant-General Dodik Widjanarko says TNI AD soldiers in Papua have committed acts...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani, who was shot dead in Hitadipa district, Intan Jaya regency, Papua, three months ago are...

By Nicholas Ryan Aditya in Jakarta Indonesia's Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has found 40 incidents of human rights violations in...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A renewed declaration of independence by an exiled West Papuan leader has stirred a negative response from other Papuan independence fighters...

The West Papua regional police (Polda) have arrested 36 people in Manokwari and Sorong city following a demonstration commemorating the anniversary of the West...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Papua Province Humanitarian Team for Cases of Violence Against Religious Figures in Intan Jaya Regency, Haris Azhar, has announced the...

By RNZ Pacific The West Papua Council of Churches wants an end to what it says is the re-militarisation of the region. It wrote to Indonesia's...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesian police forcibly dispersed a student protest near the Cendrawasih University (Uncen) in Jayapura, Papua, yesterday and the police "denied any...

Heavily armed Indonesian security forces move in to break up student protest at Cenderawasih University, Jayapura. Video: TV WestPapua By RNZ Pacific Indonesian police have forcibly...

By Benny Mawel and Budi Sutrisno in Jayapura and Jakarta The killing of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani in Intan Jaya regency, Papua, last weekend - allegedly...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...