Bangun Santoso – The seizure of books allegedly containing communist ideas belonging to the Vespa Literacy community by the Kraksaan sectoral police and Probolinggo regency TNI (Indone
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July 30, 2019
April 29, 2019
Judges in Indonesia's Papua region will today rule on the case of a Polish man who allegedly supplied arms to Papuan rebels.
Helen Davidson – An Indonesian human rights lawyer is among those taking the Indonesian police to court on behalf of all West Papuans, in an unprecedented civil case over what she clai
April 26, 2019
Islami Adisubrata, Wamena – Legal representatives of Jakub Fabian Skrzypski and Simon Magal, Latifah Anum Siregar and Aloysius Renwarin, question the indictment of public prosecutor ag
April 24, 2019
The trial of three West Papuans charged with treason has been adjourned until tomorrow.
April 23, 2019
Three West Papuans will today appear in an Indonesian court on treason charges.
April 15, 2019
Kanal Bali, Denpasar – Scores of Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) protesters from the AMP Bali City Committee (AMP KK Bali) were arrested by the Denpasar municipal police (Polresta) on Mo
Aditya Mardiastuti, Denpasar – The Papua Student Alliance (AMP) is protesting the arrest of student demonstrators at Renon Park in the Balinese provincial capital of Bali.
April 11, 2019
Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesian prosecutors are demanding 10-year prison sentences for a Polish globetrotter and a Papuan student who were charged with treason after meeting with indep
Victor Mambor, Jayapura – Prosecutors have demanded 10 years in prison for Jakub Fabian Skrzypski, a Polish national who was arrested in Wamena in August last year, for his alleged rol
February 25, 2019
Edho Sinaga, Jayapura – A child and nine West Papua National Committee (KNPB) activists in Merauke were arrested by the Merauke district police on Saturday February 23.
The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) says nine of its members were questioned by police in Merauke for wearing the Papuan Nationalist emblem.
February 19, 2019
Jayapura, Jubi – Two West Papua National Committee (KNPB) activists have been arrested by police in Bitung City, North Sulawesi, for carrying shirts with the Morning Star logo.
February 9, 2019
A Polish man on trial for treason in Indonesia after meeting with Papuan independence supporters said that visitors to his prison assaulted him and threatened to kill him as guards wat
January 27, 2019
Febriana Firdaus – Jakob Skrzypski left a stable job in Switzerland to travel through Indonesia last year.
January 15, 2019
Febriana Firdaus – A Polish man accused of plotting a coup with a pro-independence Papuan armed group has become the first foreigner to be charged with treason in Indonesia.
January 12, 2019
TAPOL, Franciscans International, International Coalition for Papua, Watch Indonesia!, West Papua Netzwerk and Geneva for Human Rights Global Training would like to draw your attention
January 1, 2019
AWPA has written to the Australian Foreign Minister concerning the security force operation in the Nduga region and also concerning the ongoing intimidation of KNPB activists.
December 20, 2018
There have been more arrests of West Papuans in Indonesian cities for demonstrating on an historical date.
December 3, 2018
Jakarta (Antara) – The East Java Police clarified that the Surabaya Police resort has not arrested 233 college Papuan students and civilians in Surabaya on Sunday, December 2.
Jakarta – An Australian was among hundreds of pro-Papuan independence activists arrested across Indonesia at the weekend, police and rights groups said Monday (Dec 3).
Jakarta (Antara) – Papuan Students Alliance activist Alince Tekege said that the 233 students arrested in Surabaya had been sent home.
A human rights activist says New Zealand needs to rethink its policy towards West Papua in the wake of violent demonstrations and mass arrests over the weekend.
December 2, 2018
On 1 December peaceful demonstrations for West Papua's freedom in many centres were met with a harsh crackdown by Indonesian security forces.
Arnold Belau and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jayapura/Surabaya – More than 500 Papuans in several cities were arrested following rallies on Dec.
December 1, 2018
There have been mass arrests of people demonstrating in cities across Indonesia to mark the anniversary of a declaration of independence by West Papuans.
Today across West Papua over 300 people have been arrested.
Arnold Belau, Jayapura – As many as 96 activists from the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) in Ternate, North Maluku, were arrested after police forcibly broke up a rall
Hundreds of Papuan students faced off with counter-protesters in Indonesia's second largest city of Surabaya today in a rally calling for the Melanesian region's independence while pro-
November 20, 2018
Katharina R. Lestari, Jakarta – Over 100 pro-independence activists were arrested on Nov.
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November 19, 2018
Antara, Jakarta – The Jayapura Police arrested 107 people who attended a discussion during the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) Anniversary at the Pegunungan Bintang Student Dormito
Indonesian police have reportedly arrested more than a hundred members of the West Papua National Committee, or KNPB, in Jayapura.
Victor Mambor, Jayapura – Jayapura Police disbanded a public discussions to commemorate the tenth anniversary of West Papua National Committee (KNPB) of which was due to be held at Pegu
November 12, 2018
Islami Adisubrata, Wamena – Indonesian Regional Police in West Papua have handed over the documents of the case of a Polish tourist, Jakup Fabian Skrzypski, who was arrested recently wi
October 4, 2018
There's been condemnation from civil society of another series of mass arrests of West Papuans by Indonesian police.
September 24, 2018
Benny Mawel, Jayapura – Students from several tertiary institutions in the Papuan provincial capital of Jayapura have been holding actions to support efforts by Vanuatu and other Pacifi
September 17, 2018
Vanuatu has raised the issue of a West Papuan and a Polish citizen charged with treason in Indonesia at the United Nations.
September 15, 2018
Jakarta (Antara) – Joint officers from the Police and Indonesian Army (TNI) arrested eight people and seized hundreds of ammunition, a homemade firearm, and a number of documents at a r
September 11, 2018
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-045-2018
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September 9, 2018
Dyaning Pangestika & Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Human rights activists have demanded the immediate release of Papuan student Simon Carlos Magal and Polish citizen Jakub Fabian S
September 5, 2018
Dozens of West Papuans were arrested by Indonesian police in Jayapura yesterday for staging a demonstration for self-determination.
September 4, 2018
Benny Mawel, Jayapura – Police have arrested scores of protesters at a demonstration organised by the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) as they were gathering at Sentani
AWPA calls on the Pacific Islands Forum leaders to condemn the arrest of 80 West Papuan activists by the Indonesian security forces.
Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Rights activists in the restive Indonesian province of Papua have expressed concern over the fate of a student arrested on treason charges.
September 3, 2018
Bastian Tebai, Jayapura – This morning, on Monday September 3, 14 participants of a peaceful action organized by the Papuan People's Democratic Movement (Garda Papua) were arrested by p
August 31, 2018
Jakarta – Police say a Polish man detained in Indonesia's troubled Papua region on suspicion of links to separatists will be tried there instead of being deported.
August 29, 2018
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A Polish citizen is currently in custody with police in Papua over his alleged attempt to film what the Indonesian Military (TNI) claims was a planned "am
August 28, 2018
Jakarta – The Mimika Police in Papua have arrested AY, a worker at gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia, for making a video that police have described as "hate speech against Ind
August 27, 2018
On Saturday 25th August at 12:20, Polish tourist Jakob Fabian was arrested by the Indonesian military at the Napua military post in Wamena, West Papua.