Australian unions have called on the Indonesian Government to respect international labour Conventions and human and trade union rights following…

AWPA is encouraged by the statement from the Chairman of the MSG meeting, Ratu Inoke Kubuabol that "The Melanesia Spearhead Group feels for their…

Vanuatu's opposition leader, Edward Natapei, says the country should reconsider its membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG).

Last…

Jayapura – Thaha Alhamid, secretary general of Papuan Presidium Council, (PDP), has welcomed the initiative taken by the Papuan Peace Network, the…

KontraS Papua, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, is convinced that the detention of five nurses by the…

Vanuatu's opposition leader, Edward Natapei, says he has grave concerns at the decision by the Melanesian Spearhead Group giving…

As the Melanesian Speahead Group meeting goes ahead in Suva, an Australia-based pressure group is calling for full membership for West Papua.

Repeka Nasiko – The Australian West Papua Association (AWPA) in Sydney has written a letter to Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) leaders urging…

In an open letter to the leaders of the MSG, AWPA calls on the MSG to give full membership to the Melanesian people of West Papua.

Joe…

A West Papuan independence group has been angered by a decision to grant Indonesia observer status at a summit meeting of the…

Eight nurses and midwives have been arrested in Jayapura for their involvement in a strike that resulting in a halt to services at the general…

Jason MacLeod – Just as Indonesia's president Susilo Bambang Yudhuyono was being feted globally for being a democrat, the Indonesian government…

The leaders of a number of churches in Papua have called on the central government to hold a dialogue with indigenous Papuans, stressing that it…

The Student Executive Board of the Cenderawasih University Law Faculty has called on the Papuan branch of Komnas HAM, the National…

Tom Allard – Indonesia's Vice-President has flagged a drive for reconciliation with the troubled region of West Papua, revealing plans to create a…

Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
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Several hundred people attended a demonstration in Jayapura on Tuesday 8 March, mostly from the Central Highlands Students Association, urging the…

Responding to recent moves to hold a dialogue between Jakarta and Papua, the chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, Forkorus Yaboisembut…

UA: 53/11 Index: ASA 21/004/2011. Indonesia Date: 03 March 2011

In the early hours of 3 March, journalist Banjir Ambarita was stabbed…

The chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, Forkorus Yaboisembut, is reported as saying that the process of elimination of the Melanesian…

Marni Cordell – Protests in North Africa have sparked renewed interest in citizens' rights – and media coverage has helped. So why do we still…

West Papuan solidarity groups met in Sydney on the 26 February to discuss issues of concern in relation to West Papua including the deteriorating…

A Papuan pro-independence alliance is calling for Indonesia's application for observer status at meetings of the Melanesian Spearhead…

John Magai Yogi who is said to be the commander of the TPN/OPM in the district of Paniai and who has for some time been on the police…

Dear brothers and sisters

We, Papuan Church leaders send you as our partners, our theological statement issued recently as reflection of our…

Banjir Ambarita – Jayapura – Three officers from the Jayapura Police have been jailed for 21 days for repeatedly forcing a female detainee to…

Jakarta – We welcome the plan for a Jakarta-Papua dialogue that is now being pursued by the Indonesian Government. Peaceful dialogue is the only…

An academic specialising in Papua affairs says it's unlikely effective popular uprisings like those in the Middle East and North…

A West Papuan student activist says the dialogue over self-determination aspirations is still very much alive among young West Papuans…

The ramifications of the fast moving events in Libya and the middle east could be felt as far away as Papua in Indonesia, a Sydney Conference has…

The NGO network, Indonesian Solidarity, is launching a campaign to pressure the government in Jakarta to release political prisoners…

Human Rights Council
Sixteenth session
Agenda Item 4
General Debate

A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal…

The chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, has called on the Indonesian government to be more judicious about plans to send…

Hamdhoon Rashad, Washington, D.C. – The Amnesty group called on the Indonesian government to release the man they call a prisoner of conscience.…

A lawyer in Jayapura, Gustaf Kawer, has called on the police to be transparent and explain what happened to Miron Wetipo, who was…

Peneas Lokbere, the chairman of SKPHP HAM Papua (Solidarity for the Victims of Human Rights Violations in Papua) has declared that they will…

Camelia Pasandaran – The government has announced that it would issue new guidelines next month on boosting development in the restive provinces…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Leaders of three major churches in Papua object to the ongoing selection of new members of the Papuan People's Assembly (…

Biak – The traditional Papuan community in Biak reported the current social and political situation in Papua to the first secretary for political…

Responding to a report that the government plans to send more transmigrants to Papua, the chairman of DAP, Dewan Adat Papua, Forkorus Yoboisembut…

Banjir Ambarita – Hundreds of candidates who failed to gain government jobs took the streets of Manokwari, West Papua, on Wednesday.…

Speaking on behalf of the United Baptist Churches in Papua, the Rev. Socrates Sofyan Yoman said since it is clear that OTSUS (Special…

Up to 100 people, arrested by Papua New Guinea police for allegedly illegally crossing the border from Indonesia, have been flown from…

Two Papuans are due to go on trial in Manokwari for raising the 14-star flag. The two men are Melkinus Bleskadit and Dance Bleskadit…

Jayapura – Although Law 21/2001 on Special Autonomy (OTSUS) provides for the establishment of a human rights court in Papua, the fact is that this…

The chairman of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in Jayapura, Victor Mambor, has called on the press in Papua to…

The legal aid organisation, LP3BH, has called on Papuans not to agree to be nominated for a seat on the MRP (Papuan People's Assembly…

The chairman of Commission A of the provincial legislative assembly, the DPRP, Ruben Magai, has called on the police chief to stop using political…

Mathew Pennington, Washington – The US military is concerned over the light jail sentences given to Indonesian troops caught on video torturing…

Jayapura – Although the three members of the armed forces who were sentenced for acts of violence against civilians have accepted the verdict and…