Despite facing the constant threat of violence and arrest for calling for greater autonomy and an end to rights abuses by Indonesian security…

Jakarta – Papuan and non-Papuan activists held a march in Jakarta on Monday to demand that the United Nations (UN) respond to the current heated…

Manado, North Sulawesi – The Manado Police arrested more than 70 Papuan students who were about to stage a rally on Monday, accusing them of…

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesian police have detained dozens of people ahead of a West Papua independence protest on Monday.

At least 200…

Six members of the KNPB were arrested in Nabire on Friday the 16 December.

Four members were arrested at the Police station when they went…

Eddie Osifelo – Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has include Micronesia, Polynesia, and African…

Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – Chappy Hakim, a retired air force chief who says he knows next to nothing about mining, now heads Indonesia's biggest…

Jakarta – Indonesian ambassador-designate to New Zealand, Tantowi Yahya, has made it his mission to inform the people of the South Pacific nation…

Just five months before Indonesia is set to host UNESCO's 2017 celebration of World Press Freedom Day, its government still has not met a regional…

A conference of indigenous Papuans affected by the forestry, plantation and mining industries was held in Sorong on 2nd and 3rd December 2014, a…

Last weekend at least six thousand West Papuans demonstrated in the town of Wamena to mark Human Rights Day.

It was the latest in a series…

Colette Davidson – When journalist and media activist Victor Mambour wants information from inside Papua, Indonesia, he knows how to get it – he…

About a dozen West Papuan activists were arrested and released twice within two days in the capital of Indonesia's Papua province.

On Friday…

Papua New Guinea's opposition leader says his country and Australia need to play a greater role in responding to human rights abuses in…

At least 6000 West Papuans are estimated to have demonstrated in the Papuan Highlands town of Wamena to mark Human Rights Day at the weekend.

United Liberation Movement for West Papua leaders have been in New York this week, lobbying at the United Nations about their self-determination…

Viriya P. Singgih, Jakarta – Gold and copper mining giant Freeport Indonesia has yet to realize its commitment to build a smelter in Indonesia in…

There have been more mass arrests in Indonesia of those participating in rallies for West Papuan self-determination.

Over two hundred people…

Mehulika Sitepu, Indonesia – Police used water cannons to disperse a rally by Papuan near the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta on…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Lawyers for protesters attending a West Papua liberation rally in Jakarta on Thursday have accused police officers of…

Events held in the cities of West Papua to mark the anniversary of the Papuan nationalist day mainly took the form of prayer events.

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A former Vanuatu prime minister Barak Sope wants Vanuatu to become a member of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation to counter…

About 20 academics, librarians, journalists and Pacific issues activists gathered at the Pacific Media Centre at noon today for a Morning Star…

Lice Movono – As futile as it may seem, your voices can make a difference in the Free West Papua movement, a group of young Pacific Island…

We, the undersigned organisations, express our support to the struggle of the people of West Papua for self-determination.

Dec 1 marks West…

Stephen Wright and Niniek Karmini, Jakarta, Indonesia – West Papuan protesters faced off with police in the Indonesian capital on Thursday in a…

Yudhistira Amran Saleh, Jakarta – Hundreds of Papuan demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) demanding independence for West Papua…

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Police apprehended on Thursday several people who were participating in a peaceful rally to demand a referendum for West…

Arnold Belau, Jayapura – Indonesian colonial police arrested 221 people on December 1 in three different cities with 203 people arrested in…

Pita Ligaiula in Nairobi, Kenya – Pacific regional civil society delegates attending the High Level Meeting (HLM2) in Nairobi Thursday…

Alin Almanar, Jakarta – A protest in support of Papua's independence in Jakarta on Thursday (01/12) ended up with the police beating up the…

New Zealand MPs were among those demonstrating today in cities across the country to raise the West Papuan nationalist flag.

It's 55 years…

Moses Ompusunggu and Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Amid what has been perceived as government inaction over injustice in Papua, civil society…

An Indonesian group in Jakarta has declared its support for West Papuans to be granted self-determination.

The Indonesian People's Front for…

Greetings of National Liberation of West Papua!

Amolongo, Nimo, Koyao, Koha, Kinaonak, Nare, Yepmum, Dormum, Tabea Mufa, Walak, Foi Moi,…

Melki Pangaribuan, Jakarta – Through an unpretentious press conference at the offices of the Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) in Jakarta on Thursday…

Jakarta – Persistent oppression and discrimination as well as cultural and historical differences are sufficient reasons for Papuan people to…

Anne Noonan – It is now 55 years since the Morning Star flag was flown officially in West Papua for the first time on the 1 December 1961.

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AWPA has written to the Australian Foreign Minister re 1st December in West Papua.

Civil Society groups in West Papua have again called for…

The mining giant Freeport has selected a former chief of staff of Indonesia's air force to be chief executive of its Papua-based operations.

A Melanesian Spearhead Group committee is meeting in Port Vila to consider guidelines around membership in the regional organisation.

The…

Andre Barahamin – After two years as president, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has yet to meet his promises to engage meaningfully with the people of Papua…

A group demonstrating in front of an Indonesian naval ship in Auckland raised the Morning Star flag in support of West Papuans.

Indonesia's…

More than 100 indigenous activists were arrested by Indonesian police at the weekend in the West Papua city of Sorong.

The police took in…

Susan Schulman, Kambele, Indonesia – Martina Wanago was sick. In fact, she was sure she would die. She had contracted HIV, which has reached…

When the oil palm plantation companies first arrive in the villages they promise jobs for indigenous Papuans, an effort to implant dreams of…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – The Papua General Elections Commission (KPU) is set to introduce several changes to the noken voting system…

Church groups around the region are calling for justice on long-standing issues undermining the rights of the region's people.

At a recent…

Ben Bilua – The Leader of Free West Papua Movement in Solomon Islands has called on political parties to leave West Papua issue alone.

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Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The taskforce on human rights in Papua has made slow progress in resolving alleged abuses in Papua and West Papua…