Tag: West Papuan flag
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...
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...
Canberra must ‘break silence’ over Papuan human rights, says AWPA
Pacific Media Watch
The Australian government should break its silence and raise human rights violations in West Papua with visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo today,...
West Papua riots: Why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken...
ANALYSIS: By Camellia Webb-Gannon
Last weekend, the Indonesian police took 43 West Papuan students into custody for allegedly disrespecting the Indonesian flag during an...
Indonesian police arrest more than 530 over West Papua flag demos
By Arnold Belau in Jayapura and Wahyoe Boediwardhana in Surabaya
More than 530 Papuans in several cities across Indonesia and West Papua were arrested following...
