Two French journalists arrested in the Indonesian province of Papua late last week remain in detention on charges relating to misusing their visas.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Police in Papua say they have found indications that two French journalists who have been held in custody since Aug.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Indonesian Islamic University's Center for Human Rights Studies (Pusham UII) has said that the Yogyakarta police's failure to reveal the murderer of j

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Authorities in Jayapura, Papua, continue to investigate two French journalists who were arrested on Aug. 6, for allegedly abusing their tourist visas.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Dozens of activists are urging president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to resolve various human rights abuse cases, including the murder of Bernas daily jour

AWPA has written to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop concerning recent troubling events in West Papua.

The fate of two French journalists detained by Indonesian police for almost a week in the restive region of Papua remains uncertain.

Reporters Without Borders deplores the detention of French journalists Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat in the Indonesian province of Papua (on the island of New Guinea) since 6 Aug

Jayapura – Police in Papua and the French Embassy in Jakarta confirmed on Friday the arrest and detention of two French journalists in Papua.

Phelim Kine – Australia's stake in East Timor's media freedom is rooted in that country's hillside town of Balibo.

A journalist from Indonesia's Papua region says police discourage journalists from covering issues or stories involving the National Committee for West Papua, or KNPB.

Auckland (Pacific Media Watch) – The first West Papuan journalist to visit New Zealand has made a call for freedom for West Papua, and for the Indonesian government occupiers to lift th

Indonesia's President-elect Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, has been urged to make good on a promise to allow Papua region to be opened up to foreign media.

Shannon Gillies – Media will be silenced and the people will lose their voice if a controversial new Media Law is ratified in one of the Asia Pacific's newest countries.

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Auckland – Global criticism of Timor-Leste's draconian new media law is growing.

Charlie Campbell – A former Portuguese colony, East Timor, or Timor-Leste, only won independence from neighboring Indonesia in 2002 following a bloody civil war.

"The media played a crucial role in East Timor's long struggle for independence.

Jose Belo – The tale of East Timor's controversial proposed media law is a story of insiders versus outsiders, of the rich versus the poor.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Experts have warned that Indonesia's mass media, especially television channels, have delivered poor quality news coverage of the 2014 elections, forcing

Shannon Gillies, Dili – Confusion reigns over a controversial media law adopted by Parliament but yet to be promulgated in the fledgling Asia-Pacific democracy of Timor-Leste.

Fransiska Nangoy and Randy Fabi, Jakarta – If Indonesia's presidential election were to be decided by favorable coverage on its television channels, ex-general Prabowo Subianto would be

The journalist who revealed Indonesia's move to pull out of a New Zealand-funded police training programme in West Papua says he believes political sensitivity is behind the decision.

The new media law in Timor-Leste should be vetoed by the country's President, agrees the Pacific Freedom Forum.

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has again sent out warning letters to a number of television stations as a reprimand for their unbalanced coverage on the presiden

Anna Majavu – La'o Hamutuk, an independent development watchdog, has called on Timor-Leste President Taur Matan Ruak to veto a controversial new media law that has just been passed by P

Jakarta – The nation will again see a fierce political battle involving media magnates after MNC group owner Hary Tanoesoedibjo pledged support for Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa in

Thomas Hornall – Twelve years ago East Timor, or Timor-Leste, was recognised as the 191st member of the United Nations after a devastating 25-year Indonesian occupation.

Dili (Jornal Independente/Pacific Media Watch) – It was a stunt that arguably in any democratic country on any given day would have led the media headlines and stopped anyone that cared

Jakarta – The Press Council said on Friday that most of Indonesia's media companies do not fulfill their duty to protect journalists' rights.

Ted McDonnell – The East Timorese parliament has passed legislation that will restrict journalists.

Jakarta – The Press Council is calling for better protection for journalists in Indonesia to mark World Press Freedom Day, which falls every May 3.

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Widodo Putro and Ward Berenschot – In 2011, the village of Kadangmas in Kudus District, East Java, was designated as the site of a large water reservoir.

Jayapura – Members of European Union parliament urged Indonesia to allow independent observers including those from the EU and the United Nations to monitor elections in Papua.

Jose Belo, Timor-Leste's celebrated champion of investigative journalism and advocate for a free media, recently vowed he was prepared to go to jail rather than allow his fledgling inde

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The daughter of former president Soeharto, Siti Hardiyanti "Tutut" Rukmana, on Monday filed a police report against media mogul and Hanura Party vice-preside

Mong Palatino – To allegedly protect the rights of media practitioners, the government of East Timor is proposing a media law that is now being deliberated in the parliament.

Lindsay Murdoch – Jose Belo was shackled, hung upside down, electrocuted, beaten, burnt and jailed for three years in the mid-1990s because of his resistance to Indonesia's brutal occup

East Timor's journalists' union has criticised the country's proposed media laws for being too restrictive on journalists.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Post ranked second on a list of Indonesia's most popular newspapers compiled by 4 International Media and Newspaper, as published on its website www.4imn.com.

Yogyakarta – A solidarity rally was organized in Yogyakarta on Tuesday as a mark of protest against an incident in which a petrol bomb was thrown at the house of Frietqi Suryawan, a jou

Mong Palatino – East Timor journalists and human rights groups are opposing a government-proposed media law which they believe would lead to possible media censorship and repression in

Simon Roughneen – A proposed new media code in Timor-Leste is raising hackles among the country's press, who see an attempt to impose curbs on journalists and criminalise transgressions

Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has pulled two television shows off the air amid complaints that the programs clearly favored the party of owner and vice presiden

David Robie, Auckland (Cafe Pacific/Pacific Media Watch): Timor-Leste Press Club has this week transformed itself into the fledgling Timor-Leste Press Union and now seeks to become affi

David Robie – The proposed Timor-Leste media law is a draconian mixed bag.

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A group of civil society organizations, called the Frequency Belongs to the Public (FMP), plans to take the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) to court as

Auckland (Green Party/Pacific Media Watch) – The Green Party is calling on the New Zealand government to end their $6.3 million police training programme in West Papua in light of new e