Interviews

Ecocide and Genocide Escalates in West Papua: Interview with ULMWP’s Benny Wenda by Paul Gregoire published on 23 May 2025 https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/ecocide-and-genocide-escalates-in-west-papua-interview-with-ulmwps-benny-wenda/ Following his re-election as Australian PM Anthony Albanese paid a visit to relatively new Indonesia president Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta, with foreign minister Penny Wong and home affairs minister Tony Burke in tow. This […]

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.

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

The West Papua National Liberation Front will submit its application for West Papua to become a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group by the end of the next week. [ Visit Website ]

The international spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua says the group will submit its application to join the Melanesian Spearhead Group in February. [ Visit Website ]