Tag: West Papua National Liberation Army
Hostage NZ pilot appears in new Papuan rebel video amid ‘don’t...
Asia Pacific Report
The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) has released a new video about New Zealand hostage pilot Philip Mehrtens and a Papuan...
Papuan rebels deny asking for money, weapons to free NZ pilot...
Jubi News in Jayapura
The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) has denied Indonesian media claims that Egianus Kogoya, the commander of a TPNPB faction,...
Papuan churches plea to rebel leader Egianus Kogoya to free NZ...
Jubi News in Jayapura
The Papuan Church Council has called on the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) unit led by Egianus Kogoya to immediately...
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...
Wenda calls on West Papuan rebels to release kidnapped NZ pilot
RNZ Pacific
A West Papuan independence movement leader, Benny Wenda, says the release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens held hostage by armed rebels is...
Papuan cat-and-mouse over NZ pilot taken captive by ‘freedom’ rebels
BACKGROUNDER: By David Robie
Papuan independence rebels are playing a desperate game of cat and mouse with Indonesian authorities over their hostage taking last week...
West Papuan national liberation rebel group says kidnapped NZ pilot safe
RNZ Pacific
A rebel group in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian province of Papua who abducted New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens says he is safe.
The New Zealander,...
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...
Rescue mission underway for NZ pilot held hostage in Papua, say...
RNZ News
Indonesian police and military have launched a joint mission to rescue a New Zealand pilot who was seized by rebels as a hostage...
Human rights researcher pleads for West Papuan rebels to free NZ...
By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists
A researcher at Human Rights Watch in Jakarta is calling for the immediate release of the...
Indonesian security forces ‘have no idea’ where NZ pilot hostage is
Jubi News in Jayapura
Indonesian security forces do not know the whereabouts of the New Zealand pilot taken hostage by the West Papua National Liberation...
Papuan rebels seize NZ pilot hostage, set local plane on fire,...
RNZ Pacific
Pro-independence rebels in Indonesia's Papua province have seized a New Zealand pilot as hostage after setting a small commercial plane on fire when...
60,000 flee as West Papua conflict deepens, poses questions for region
SPECIAL REPORT: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
Armed conflict in West Papua continues to claim lives, displace tens of thousands of people and cause...
West Papuans flee from ‘liberation’ conflict into remote PNG region
SPECIAL REPORT: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
Armed conflict in West Papua has caused an exodus of displaced people into one of the most...
Don’t brand West Papuan resistance OPM ‘terrorist’, say ex-general, critics
General Gatot Nurmantyo, a former commander in the Indonesian National Armed Forces, giving his television interview - in Bahasa Indonesian. Video: TV-One Indonesia
Asia Pacific...
Terrorist tag in West Papua could worsen racism, says rights group
RNZ Pacific
Human Rights Watch is urging the Indonesian government to rethink its classification of rebels in West Papua as terrorists.
Indonesia has formally designated Papuan...
Designating OPM as terrorists will ‘increase tension, rights abuses’
By Arjuna Pademme in Jayapura
The Indonesian government appears to be at a loss about how to quell the struggle of the Free Papua Organisation...
Three Papuan youths killed in torture reprisal by Indonesian military
By a special Asia Pacific Report correspondent
Intan Jaya has started Lent with bitter sorrow after losing three young Papuan men alleged to have been...
Investigators find evidence of military role in shooting of Papuan pastor
By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie in Jakarta
An Indonesian government-sanctioned joint fact-finding team has reported that it found indications that security forces were involved in...
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...
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...
OPM proposes West Papua ceasefire to help contain spread of Covid-19
By Agung Sandy Lesmana and Ria Rizki Nirmala Sari in Jayapura
The Free Papua Organisation (OPM) has offered a ceasefire in the independence struggle against...