News and updates, information from Oceania and Asia (New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia and other ASEAN countries, China, and others)
Radio NZ – Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa are among eight prescribed countries whose passport holders will be allowed to hold … Continue reading Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa on PNG dual citizenship country list
CANBERRA, SATUHARAPAN.COM – Untuk pertama kalinya seorang warga negara Australia berlatar belakang suku asli, Aborigin, dilantik menjadi menteri pemerintah federal … Continue reading Aborigin Pertama Jadi Menteri Australia Minta Referendum
PIReport – By Jasmine Stole and Jerick Sablan HAGÅTÑA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, March 8, 2017) – The law limiting … Continue reading Federal Judge Rules Self-Determination Plebiscite In Guam Can’t Be Limited To ‘Native Inhabitants’
Source: AAP, SBS News Seven Pacific island nations have called for a UN investigation into allegations of human rights abuses in … Continue reading Pacific nations want UN to investigate Indonesia on West Papua
Elaine Pearson, Support of Indonesian sovereignty over Papua does not mean shying away from scrutiny of abuses As Indonesia’s president, … Continue reading Australia should go to Papua and see the human rights situation for itself
Defence officers have caught an Indonesian boat carrying illegal firearms into Vanimo, West Sepik Province. Pictures of the weapons supplied … Continue reading PNG-Indonesia Maritime Border Security in need of boats
By PMC Editor – asiapacificreport While abroad for a study exchange year in Melbourne, Connor Woodman discovered that Indonesia’s effort to thwart the independence … Continue reading How Indonesia silences West Papuan independence supporters overseas
By Stefan Armbruster, SBS Australia Australia’s nearest Pacific neighbours have taken the lead in trying to broker a peaceful future for … Continue reading Melanesia takes lead on future West Papuan peace
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has sharply criticised Australia for planning to set up a diplomatic post in … Continue reading Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill unhappy at Australian move over Bougainville
A report claims Australia provided Indonesia with helicopters which were used used to carry out ‘genocidal’ attacks in West Papua. … Continue reading Claim Aussie choppers used in Papuan ‘genocide’
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