Awareness

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]