Editorial/ Opinion

This article was written by a West Papuan about the Indonesian police threatening West Papuan activists from the West Papua National Committee (KNPB). On Tuesday, 22 March 2016, the Indonesian Police Chief Inspector in West Papua, Paulus Waterpauw has written to the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), for the purpose of the meeting is to […]

This article has been written by a West Papuan activist about the West Papuan churches condemning the Indonesian military and police   President of the Evangelical Church in West Papua and all Indonesia (GIDI Rev. Dorman Wandikbo has asserted that without security and escorts from the Indonesian security forces, military and police, the Papuan people […]

Indonesia’s warning to the Pacific Islands Forum not to discuss the West Papua issue is to be expected, but should not be accepted. That’s according to Gary Juffa, Governor of PNG’s Oro Province and a fierce supporter of independence for the Indonesian half of New Guinea island. Indonesia’s vice-minister for Foreign Affairs, A M Fachir […]

Pacific Island leaders will consider launching a fact-finding or monitoring mission to investigate reported human rights abuses in the Indonesian province of West Papua at this meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum. Aid and human rights groups from across the region have been urging governments to act, saying the situation in West Papua is getting […]

For the first time, NGOs from around the Pacific have come together to issue the humanity abuses in West Papua.

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 […]

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

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 […]

Read full article on: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/68193305/indonesias-history-of-brutality

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