Tag: West Papuan students

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A global Papuan student welfare advocacy group has condemned the Indonesian government's disruption of autonomous local education grants supporting studies abroad,...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Scores of students from the Papuan Student Association (IMP) in Medan, North Sumatra, have held a protest action this week in...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have protested the Indonesian police actions in blocking them when they wanted to hold...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Bali chapter of the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) has held a weekend protest action at the Renon traffic circle in...

COMMENTARY: By Laurens Ikinia A sad story has taken place again in the PT Freeport Indonesia gold and copper mine area near Timika in West...

Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre's weekly Southern Cross radio programme on 95bFM has featured the latest Pacific news brought to you by Pacific...

By Sri Krishnamurthi A remarkable 120 West Papuan students - all on scholarships - are studying in New Zealand, says Laurens Ikinia, a postgraduate student...

By M Yusuf Manurung in Jakarta An East Jakarta Metropolitan District police chief has given prosecution evidence at the trial this week of six Papuan...

By Ghinan Salman in Surabaya As many as 43 Papuan students were taken to the district police headquarters after Indonesian police fired teargas and forced...

By Ivany Atina Arbi and Nethy Dharma Somba in Jakarta and Jayapura The 73rd celebration of Indonesia’s Independence Day last week was tinged with reports...

By Bastian Tebai in Surabaya Indonesian police last night arrested 49 Papuan students who live at the Kamasan Papuan Dormitory in the East Java provincial...

A video of a demonstration marking the bloody Biak massacre of 6 July 1998 staged last year. Video: BBB Times By Michelle Winowatan Dozens of Indonesian...

By Pebriansyah Ariefana in Surabaya Indonesian police have revealed that police and military officers raided a Papuan student dormitory in the East Java provincial capital...

Photographs by Del Abcede West Papuan parliamentarian in exile and human rights advocate Benny Wenda spoke to about 80 students, staff and activists at Auckland...

By Ryan Dagur in in Jakarta Indonesian Church officials and activists have accused police in Yogyakarta of racism and using excessive force after six Papuan...

By Abeth You in Jayapura The student executive leader of the University of Cendewasih, Elius Wenda, has criticised the recruitment of students in the Institute...

By Bastian Tebai in Yogyakarta Every year July 1 is commemorated by Papuans as West Papua proclamation day. The proclamation was read out at the...