Tag: West Papua self-determination
15 arrested at Jakarta parliament rally against Papuan special autonomy
By Adi Briantika in Jakarta
A group of Papuan students in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Jakarta, who were planning to...
ULMWP accuses Indonesia of ‘ethnic cleansing’, aggression against Papuans
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Indonesia has pursued a strategy of aggressive arrests and violence against peaceful demonstrations for independence since the announcement of a provisional...
Confusion reigns over real reasons for burning of missionary plane in...
Pacific Media Watch correspondent
The pro-independence conflict in West Papua with a missionary plane reportedly being shot down at Intan Jaya has stirred contrasting responses...
Netherlands adds voice to global demands for UN visit to West...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesia's former coloniser, the Netherlands, has become the 83rd international state calling for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to...
The Intan Jaya conflict 3: New autonomous region, new conflict
SPECIAL REPORT: By Victor Mambor in Jayapura – final article of a three-part investigation into the Pastor Yeremia Zanambani assassination
Intan Jaya district in Papua,...
The Intan Jaya conflict 2: Violence at the cost of many...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Victor Mambor in Jayapura – second of a three-part investigation into the Pastor Yeremia Zanambani assassination.
The atmosphere on Saturday morning, 19...
The Intan Jaya conflict: A risk of more widespread violence in...
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...
Military police chief says TNI soldiers burned Papuan bodies to hide...
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...
Family of murdered Papuan pastor want case tried in human rights...
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...
Rival OPM leaders dispute Papuan ‘independence’ declaration
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...
Papuan flag day protests in Yogya, Jakarta reject ‘special autonomy’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
December 1 flag day protests have taken place in several cities around Indonesia including the capital Jakarta, Yogyakarta (Central Java), Ternate...
Musicians across Pacific stage virtual Wan Musik Wan Sing for West...
The livestream of the Wan Musik Wan Sing Papuan flag day concert.
COMMENT: By Luisa Tuilau and Ronny Kareni
As West Papua’s Morning Star flag marks...
Academics, journalists, students raise Papuan flag in NZ ‘solidarity’ gesture
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Academics, journalists and students today raised the West Papuan flag - an act banned in Indonesia and punishable by up to...
Take action to save lives in West Papua, activists tell Forum
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland
A Pacific Islands Forum-hosted webinar has called on the United Nations and Indonesia to be “more responsive” to the pleas...
Indonesian security forces attack Papuan musician, say activists
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A young West Papuan musician, Kris Douw, who has written many powerful protest songs against Indonesia's illegal military occupation in his...
Papua special autonomy hearing broken up, 54 arrested for ‘treason’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Indonesian police have arrested 54 participants of a public hearing organised by the Papuan People's Council (MPR) this week at the...
People want ‘truth’ about West Papua, say activists giving crisis update
Pacfic Media Watch Newsdesk
West Papuan activists and an Indonesian human rights lawyer criticised the recent military crackdown on the two Melanesian provinces of Papua...
Police forcibly disperse student protest against Special Autonomy in Jayapura
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...
Indigenous peoples in Indonesia still struggle for equality after 75 years
By Fidelis Eka Satriastanti, The Conversation
Indigenous people fought alongside youth movements in the creation of an Indonesian nation. But, in the historical writing of...
‘We won’t drop our support for West Papua,’ pledges Vanuatu’s PM
By Len Garae in Port Vila
Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman has rejected a claim that he had been invited by the Indonesian government to...
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...
Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Miss Universe NZ 2019 beauty queen Diamond Langi is being trolled by thousands of Indonesians on...