On 15 June 2026, an 18-year-old student named Yustinus Yalak reportedly sustained a gunshot wound to his right thigh (see photo on top, source:…

Arjuna Pademme, Jayapura, Jubi – Residents of Kuyawage District in Lanny Jaya Regency, Highlands Papua Province, have declared their opposition to…

Aida Ulim, Jayapura, Jubi – Students from Lanny Jaya Regency in Highlands Papua Province submitted a written complaint to the Papua office of…

Arjuna Pademme, Jayapura, Jubi – Four residents of Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua, were reportedly detained by members of the Habema Task Force…

Larius Kogoya, Jayapura, Jubi – An 18-year-old girl from Wunambunggu Village, Melagi District, Lanny Jaya Regency, Highland Papua, identified as…

Hellena Souisa – Yasinta Moiwend vanished without a trace. She could not be reached by phone, and her family have no idea where she is after she…

On 10 June 2026, members of the Habema Police Task Force and Marine Corps personnel arbitrarily detained four Papuan civilians at a security…

Hellena Souisa – This may be the most controversial film in Indonesia right now.

After being screened offline at nearly 2,000 locations…

Meenakshi Ganguly – On May 23, the well-known Papuan activist Yasinta Moiwend went missing from her home in Merauke, South Papua, according to her…

Indonesia, West Papua – Between April and June 2026, new security force raids in the regencies Puncak, Yahukimo, Nduga, Mimika, and Intan Jaya…

Larius Kogoya, Jayapura, Jubi – Melince Magai, a member of the Puncak Regency Legislative Council (DPRK) in Central Papua appointed through the…

The police report filed against the filmmakers of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) by Yasinta Moiwend validates the main thesis that forms the subtitle of…

An 18-year-old Papuan girl named Mrs Penti Weya, was reportedly killed by a suspected drone-delivered explosive in Wunapunggu Village, Melagi…

Rahmat Hidayat – Indonesian security forces have arrested a 52-year-old man suspected of acting as an intermediary in the supply of firearms and…

Jakarta – Dozens of students from the Student Executive Councils (BEM) of State Islamic Religious Universities throughout Indonesia held a…

On 10 May 2026, members of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), and the Police arbitrarily detained four indigenous Papuans at the…

Silpester Kasipka, Jayapura, Jubi – Members of the Tuarek Natkime Foundation blocked the access road leading to PT Freeport Indonesia's…

Johnny Blades – The family of a West Papuan woman alleged to have been forcibly taken to Indonesia's capital after appearing in a new documentary…

Andrew Mathieson – The family of a prominent West Papua activist has lost contact with its matriarch who has been missing in the occupied…

News Desk, Jayapura, Jubi – Thousands of residents in Tolikara Regency, Papua Highlands, including elders, youth, and children, gathered at…

Indonesia has kidnapped and threatened Mama Yasinta Moiwend (Mama Sinta), one of the Marind tribe women featured in the controversial documentary…

Arjuna Pademme, Jayapura, Jubi – The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) has emphasized that grassroots consolidation is essential to achieving…

Arjuna Pademme, Jayapura, Jubi – The Papua Coalition for Law Enforcement and Human Rights has suggested that Yasinta Moiwend's recent objections…

Indonesia, West Papua – The 24-page research report "No Safe Path Home: A report examining allegations of victim-activated explosive devices in…

Military personnel reportedly apprehended Mr Erner Kobogau, a 24-year-oled farmer, without showing a warrant in Sugapa Town, Intan Jaya Regency,…

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – The family of Papua activist Yasinta Moiwend claimed to have lost contact with the woman affectionately known as…

Rabin Yarangga, Biak, Papua – At least five people were killed and five others hospitalized after a suspected World War II-era bomb exploded in…

Dodunias A. Mampioper, Jayapura – Even though the documentary film "Pig Feast: Colonialism in Our Time" (Pesta Babi: Kolonialisme di Zaman Kita)…

Arjuna Pademme, Jayapura, Jubi – The Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua) in Merauke has urged President Prabowo Subianto to instruct the…

Aida Ulim, Jayapura, Jubi – Representatives of Papuan women have called for resistance against oppression and National Strategic Projects (PSN)…

On 26 May 2026, members of the Marine Corps (TNI-AL) allegedly arrested the two Papuan pupils Atinus Payage, 16, and Aman Heluka, 17, (see photo…

A legal aid group called for dialogue and an end to Indonesia's military involvement in Papua amid an ongoing land dispute over a state-backed…

Indonesia, West Papua – The documentary Pesta Babi ("Pig Feast"), which examines land dispossession and the impact of resource extraction and…

On 19 May 2026, joint security forces apprehended Mr Ruben Kobak alias Kone Kobak, the Head of Diplomacy for the West Papua National Committee (…

On 1 May 2026, members of Kodim 1711/Boven Digoel allegedly detained four political activists in the grounds of the Catholic Church of the…

Johnny Blades – A West Papuan independence activist says AI-generated fake footage of her and her words has been used to spread disinformation on…

Adlu Raharusun, Manokwari, Jubi – Legal Aid Foundation (YLBH) Sisar Matiti has questioned the progress of a legal investigation into the alleged…

Andrew Mathieson – West Papuan separatists in the occupied territory's eastern region allege eight gold miners they shot and killed on Thursday…

Johnny Blades – An Indonesian filmmaker says the crackdown by authorities on his West Papua documentary in some parts of the country is a threat…

West Papuan leader Benny Wenda is urging Pacific leaders to strip Indonesia of its MSG and PIF roles as deadly clashes and fresh claims of…

Ajit Niranjan – An expedition to document the end days of the last tropical glaciers in Oceania has revealed sombre footage of "planetary…

Pesta Babi (Pig Feast), the controversial Papuan documentary film critical of a major development project impacting on the environment in the…

Gamaliel Kaliele, Teminabuan, Jubi – The Indigenous Nasawat community in South Sorong Regency, Southwest Papua, has rejected a village forest…

Aida Ulim, Jayapura, Jubi – One of the directors of the documentary film Pig Feast: Colonialism in Our Time, Cypri Paju Dale, said the film is not…

Sorong – The documentary film "Pig Feast: Colonialism in Our Times" (Pesta Babi: Kolonialisme di Zaman Kita), after being watched at more than 1,…

Archbishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi of Merauke has censured a documentary about development projects in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua for…

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Movement (TPNPB-OPM) has claimed responsibility for the deaths…

A teacher and six students from SMP N 1 Senior Highschool Sinak were reportedly apprehended without warrant and subsequently tortured by military…

On 10 May 2026, security forces allegedly shot dead Mr Nopison Tebai, a 21-year-old high school student, during a joint security operation in…

Piter Lokon, Dekai, Jubi – The Yahukimo Police in Papua Highlands released Kone Kobak, the International Diplomacy Chair of the West Papua…