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Asia Pacific Greens support West Papua’s MSG membership and self-determination with a new resolution From Radio Zealand: The 3rd Congress of the Asia Pacific Greens Federation has adopted a resolution on the West Papuan self-determination struggle. The congress was held at the weekend in Silverstream, near New Zealand’s capital, and featured delegates from a range […]

This article is originally written dutch and is tranlated with google. Research: The Dutch don’t know their own history Lift media ban Papua a farce Amsterdam, June 3, 2015 – Since last month, foreign journalists allowed to visit the Indonesian province of Papua again. Now it turns out that the lifting of the media ban […]

Indonesian President Joko Widodo recently announced the end of the decades-long restriction on foreign journalists in the provinces of Papua and West Papua, Indonesia’s territories in the island of New Guinea. While the president, popularly called Jokowi, says he is committed to human rights in the Papua provinces, the military and police continue to murder […]

West Papua is one of the last great frontier wildernesses. Over 250 distinct indigenous communities live amongst spectacular rainforests, mountains and coral ecosystems. But all is not well on the world’s second largest island. Source: Resource Extraction in West Papua · Maptia

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 […]

A prominent West Papuan independence advocate says the plan by PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill to have governors from Indonesia’s Papuan provinces represented at the Melanesian Spearhead Group is deeply flawed. Read full article and listen to the interview here

Today, May 16, Los Angeles, California, USA. Pacific Islands people support West Papua into Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) and welcome West Papua into the Pacific Island family. Pacific Islands community in Los Angeles at Grace methodist church from Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia support our people of West Papua. West Papua has legal right to self […]

News from Los Angeles, California. Benny Wenda gives presentation at the KRST Unity Center of Afrakan Spiritual Science. May 18th 2015. Many people in the USA did not know about the genocide and illegal colonisation of West Papua by the Indonesian government. Today people all over America are finding out about West Papua. The Indonesian […]

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 […]

Foreign journalists will still need permits to report from Papuan provinces, according to Indonesia’s chief security minister, despite president Joko Widodo’s claims the region is now unrestricted. Read full articile