Tag: West Papuan self-determination
Indonesia approves Freeport, Amman contract conversion and exports continue
By Viriya P. Singgih and Grace D. Amianti in Jakarta
The Indonesian government has approved the conversion of the contracts of gold and copper miner...
Australia, Indonesia strengthen cyber-security ties but West Papua ignored
Australia and Indonesia have agreed to focus on cyber-security in their fight against terrorism and transnational crimes after a meeting in Jakarta but West...
Protester charged with trespassing in Melbourne after Indonesian pressure
A 42-year-old protester has been charged with trespassing on the Indonesian consulate-general in Melbourne after an incident which came at a time of renewed tensions...
Dan McGarry: Indonesia is slowly, slowly losing Melanesia
ANALYSIS: By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
Last month, New Zealand-based analyst Jose Sousa-Santos commented on Twitter that “Indonesia’s attempt at buying support from the...
Indonesia blocks websites circulating #LetWestPapuaVote petition
Launch of the Free West Papua Campaigns 2017 global petition calling for an internationally-supervised vote for West Papua at Westminster last week. Video: Pouk...
Shifting demographics in West Papua highlight conflict, says academic
New statistics show indigenous Melanesians are not yet the minority they were previously thought to be in West Papua, reports Radio New Zealand International's...
Police response outside Indonesian Embassy fails to silence Canberra Papua protest
About 20 protesters in support of West Papuan self-determination were defiant in the face of Indonesian nationalism "blasted at them from the embassy" and...
Indonesian police block planned Papuan student protest in Yogya
By Yuliawati in Jakarta
Scores of Indonesian police blocked Papuan students in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta who planned to hold a demonstration on...
‘Everything can be burnt’ – Melanesian West Papua in the Jokowi...
The face of West Papuan society is changing but RNZ International found that the core culture of the indigenous people of Indonesia's Papua region...
‘Stop killing Melanesians’ Vanuatu plea to Canberra over West Papua
Archival footage from ABC News on Australian SAS training of Indonesian special forces in 2010 republished on the Special Forces News channel on YouTube...
Flashback: Honouring independent journalist and film maker Mark Worth
Land of the Morning Star ... the 2004 documentary on West Papua made by Mark Worth.
From Pacific Media Watch / Australians for a Free...
Human rights groups protest over 500 arrests of Papuan demonstrators
Jakarta-based based human rights watchdog Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Elsam) and its local partner in Papua, Elsham Papua, have condemned intimidation and...
West Papua Media on innovative digital security and safety project
An example of a documentary video made by a partner group of West Papua Media, AwasMIFEE. Since joining Indonesia officially in 1969, there were...
AWPA condemns the arrest of 6 KNPB members in West Papua
The Australia West Papua Association has condemned the arrest of six National Committee for West Papua (KNPB) members in Nabire, West Papua, today.
Four members...
Indonesia faces chance to prove it is more ‘journalist-friendly’ in 2017
By Colette Davidson
When journalist and media activist Victor Mambor wants information from inside Papua, Indonesia, he knows how to get it -- he has...
Indigenous West Papuans send solidarity to Standing Rock
A previous activist video on West Papua Independence Day. Video: Free West Papua
Indigenous groups from around Oceania have sent their support to the ongoing...
‘Rize of Morning Star’ boosts global ‘free Papua’ movement with new...
The new video Sorong Samara. Video: The Rize Of The Morning Star
While Indonesian authorities tried to brutally suppress West papua "independence day" rallies across...
Indonesian police seize public buses for 328 arrested at ‘free Papua’...
By Yudhistira Amran Saleh in Jakarta
Hundreds of Papuan demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) demanding independence for West Papua have been arrested and...
West Papua supporters gather at PMC for Morning Star flag event
A West Papua video marking the global Morning Star flag-raising event today.
About 20 academics, librarians, journalists, students and Pacific issues activists gathered at the...
The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who are counting...
Grasberg mine in the Indonesian region of West Papua has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but, writes Susan Schulman in...
West Papua human rights violations ‘worse’ says new civil group
West Papuans have been standing alone in their struggle for independence since Indonesia started colonisation in 1963, says a statement by a new civil...
West Papuan solidarity events planned to mark Morning Star flag day
By Anne Noonan
It is now 55 years since the Morning Star flag was flown officially in West Papua for the first time on the...