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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

On 27th February 2015 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu met with West Papuan independence leader and founder of the Free West Papua Campaign, Benny Wenda, in Cape Town, South Africa. He has released the following statement renewing his call for the UN to instigate an investigation into the so called Act of ‘Free’ Choice in which Indonesia […]

Filep Karma, West Papua’s most famous political prisoner refuses Indonesian president widodo’s offer of clemency because he refuses to admit any guilt. There is no guilt for West Papuan people to fly the Morning Star flag of West Papua in the land of West Papua. “If president Widodo wants to free me unconditionally, then yes […]

Free ALL political prisoners in West Papua. Filep Karma – “If Jowowi is a real democrat he will honour difference of opinion. Difference of opinion is no problem in a democratic country. He should free all political prisoners and I will be the last one to be free, after all my friends have been released […]

Press Release: Australia West Papuan Association 5 West Papuan prisoners granted clemency/media bans lifted for foreign journalists wanting to visit West Papua. Joe Collins of AWPA said, “although this first small step is encouraging, we should be cautious of Jokiei’s motives. Until all West Papuan political prisoners are unconditionally released and the lifting of travel […]

Amnesty International calls on President Joko Widodo to take immediate steps to end Indonesian security forces’ increasing attacks on freedom of expression in the country’s Papuan region. On the eve of the president’s visit to the region, at least 264 political activists there have been arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Indonesian police over the […]

Read full article on: http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0506-jacobson-oil-palm-explosion.html “Using the excuse of the conflict around the [local] independence movement, the Indonesian government makes it very difficult for international observers to access West Papua, and this has probably also resulted in a lack of awareness internationally about the ecological threats,” reads a text accompanying the report. Detailed maps by […]