Deaths reported on both sides in firefight during work on trans-Papua highway As many as 15 people are believed to … Continue reading West Papua: up to 15 dead as rebels and Indonesian soldiers clash
JAKARTA: Six hundred Indonesian soldiers will finish building a highway in the province of Papua, a military spokesman said on … Continue reading Dangerous highway: Soldiers to finish Papua road after workers killed
Indonesia has deployed 600 military personnel to Papua, to safeguard the construction of a controversial road project. The security build-up … Continue reading Indonesia deploys 600 soldiers to Papua for road project
Indonesia’s military says the West Papua Liberation Army set fire to a digger owned by a state-owned construction company on … Continue reading West Papua Liberation Army destroys digger in renewed violence
A global grouping of Christian churches has found that discrimination and human rights violations in Indonesia’s Papua region are as … Continue reading West Papuans systematically marginalised, say Christian churches
By Chen Toisuta in Ambon, Maluku, Source; https://asiapacificreport.nz/ Scores of students from the Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan) … Continue reading Students call for Indonesian election boycott, alternative political force
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Free West Papua Campaign has welcomed the call by the United Nation’s human rights experts … Continue reading West Papuan campaigners welcome UN call to halt Indonesian torture
Expert panel says incident shows the ‘deeply entrenched discrimination and racism’ faced by Papuans Indonesian police who used a large … Continue reading UN urges torture inquiry after Indonesia police put snake on West Papua boy
Author: Keith LoveardBy Pacnews – via The Vanuatu Independent WEST Papuan activist Benny Wenda described the petition he delivered to United … Continue reading West Papua: 1.8 million signatures can’t be wrong
JAKARATA, 22 FEBRUARY 2019 (THE AUSTRALIAN) – United Nations human rights experts have demanded an independent probe into “alleged killings, … Continue reading UN demands probe into Indonesian treatment of Papuans
