Demo & Protest

Dozens of students marched on the Indonesian Embassy in the New Zealand capital, Wellington, today to protest over continuing violence from the security forces in West Papua. The students, many of them from Melanesian countries, had walked from Victoria University and were joined by several MPs, including the Green Party’s Catherine Delahunty. She says it […]

West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda is currently live on Radio in London where he will discuss the ongoing racism, genocide, and illegal occupation of West Papua as well as the Global Day of Action in for West Papua on Saturday Please do tune in and listen http://tunein.com/radio/galaxyafiwe-s178508/

The situation in the Indonesian province of West Papua is similar to East Timor just before independence, a West Papuan activist has announced at a protest in Darwin. A group of about 60 people have erected a temporary hut embassy outside Parliament House, calling for West Papuan independence from Indonesia.   Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-06/papuan-rotesters-at-parliament-house-in-darwin/6597898

Free West Papua activists evicted After two days of demonstrating outside the parliament building in Northern Territory, Australia. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/08/west-papua-activists-evicted-from-northern-territory-parliament-grounds A group of West Papua activists has been evicted from the grounds of the Northern Territory Parliament House in Darwin after they erected a hut as an “embassy” and spent two days protesting against Indonesian human rights […]

On 30th May rallies were held all over West Papua to show support for West Papua joining the subregional Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) through the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP). Up to 82 West Papuans were arrested and many were tortured by the Indonesian authorities. For more information, please see the Free West […]

Today West Papuan students in Yogyakarta, Indonesia took the struggle onto the streets again and protesting for the freedom of West Papua. They risked getting jailed for 15 years or even killed for raising the West Papuan national flag as they called for West Papua through The United Liberation Movement for West Papua – ULMWP to join […]

JAYAPURA – Police blockade Papua People’s Action, But People Not Give Up. May 1st, West Papua, around 200 people arrested, reports of 1 person shot dead and others in hospital on Friday (01/05/2015) in Nabire – West Papua. Secretary of the National Committee of West Papua (KNPB), Nesta Ones Suhuniap said Indonesian police blockaded the […]

Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Indonesian embassies in London, Paris and other cities today to call for an end to West Papua’s 50 years of isolation. Supporters of Tapol, Amnesty International, Free West Papua Campaign and Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, wore black to protest the media black-out in Papua, and […]

Yesterday the first Free West Papua protest was held in Nigeria outside the Indonesian Embassy in Lagos. The protest was organised by Pan African Consciousness Resistance (PACOR) and follows a surge of support from South Africa for a Free West Papua We are very grateful for this demonstration being held and at all the new […]

West Papua Action Auckland is urging the government to do more to protect people from ongoing security force violence in Indonesia’s Papua region. [ Visit Website ]