Vanuatu's West Papua Unification Committee has confirmed its conference in Port Vila will now be held from the 4th of December…

The Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club is calling on the incoming administration of Joko Widodo to immediately lift all restrictions…

The West Papua conference that was expected to open in Vanuatu next week has been postponed.

The West Papua Reunification…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – An Indonesian soldier was killed following an armed attack at a market in Puncak Jaya Regency in Papua on Thursday.…

Auckland (Pacific Media Watch/The Fiji Times) – The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) has called on Prime Minister John Key to pressure…

A Green Party MP has urged the returning government in New Zealand to make good on the recently passed parliament resolution to press…

Alison Bevege – A face frowned through the glass at a bright banner waving on a fishing rod below the consulate window. 15 years in an Indonesian…

Auckland (Pacific Media Watch) – The New Zealand government and the French Embassy in Wellington were today called on at a vigil to put pressure…

Anna Majavu – The visit by the South African government and 17 unnamed South African companies to Indonesia last week has thrown into stark relief…

Jakarta, Indonesia – Theo Hesegem was carrying a foreigner on his motorbike when a pair of police intelligence officers pulled up behind him and…

Jerry Omona, Jayapura – General Coordinator of the National Army of Free Papuan Organization (OPM) Lambert Pekikir has rejected the…

Nick Miller, Edinburgh – Over a long night, through the wee hours, Scotland will count its referendum votes as an army of scrutineers keep an eye…

Harry Pearl & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – An alliance of non-governmental organizations from Indonesia and abroad has addressed the UN Human…

Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has increased the prison sentence handed to a Papua-based police officer found guilty of laundering up to Rp 1…

Amnesty International says a Papuan human rights lawyer, defending a tribal leader accused of separatist activities by Indonesian…

UA: 232/14 Index: ASA 21/027/2014

Papuan human rights lawyer Anum Siregar was attacked by an unknown person in Wamena, Papua province…

West Papuan campaigners, supporters and students gathered in Auckland for a memorial ceremony for the Vanuatu-based exile John Ondawame who died…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A senior police officer in Papua province has been fired over a personal indiscretion and another for his alleged…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A member of the Free Papua Organization was killed in a firefight with security officers at an airfield in…

Over 80 delegates from West Papua and other countries are expected to converge on Port Vila at the start of next month to attend the…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – The families of two French journalists imprisoned indefinitely for reporting in West Papua without a visa have spoken…

The Pacific Freedom Forum says Indonesia's President-elect Joko Widodo should keep his campaign promise to open up access to West…

ALRC-COS-27-15-2014
Speaker: Mr. Budi Tjahjono
HRC section: Item 3, General Debate

A Joint Oral Statement to the 27th Session of…

Marie Dhumieres – Jakarta, Indonesia – "It's safe here in Papua. There is nothing to hide."

That's what Indonesian President-elect Joko…

The body of one of West Papua's most prominent freedom fighters, John Ondawame, was buried in Port Vila Thursday afternoon. Dr…

Jayapura, Papua – The immigration office in Jayapura, Papua, is continuing to work on the legal process for two French journalists who…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities are seeking the maximum five-year jail sentence for a pair of French journalists arrested last…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – President-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is being urged to dissolve the current government's Special Unit of…

The Secretary-General of the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation says the West Papuan cause has lost a good leader, following…

Amnesty International has called on the Indonesian government to stop attacking freedom of expression in Papua.

That comes after a number of…

Jakarta – The Press Council urged the government to deport French journalists Thomas Charles Dandois and Louise Marie Valentine Burrot to their…

Auckland (Pacific Media Watch/West Papua Media Alerts) – Indonesian intelligence officers are targeting West Papuan journalists and independence…

AWPA has written to the Indonesian President concerning the intimidation against human rights lawyer Gustaf Kawer

Australia West Papua…

Asian media organisations have urged the Indonesian government to immediately release two French journalists who have spent a month in…

Regional rights groups are hoping they can convince Indonesian authorities to free two French journalists in Papua province.

The…

Amy McQuire – An alliance of South East Asian journalists have called on the Indonesian government to release two French journalists jailed in the…

Amy McQuire – A West Papuan pro-independence activist has been found dead less than a week after he went missing in the lead-up to Indonesian…

Jakarta – Immigration officials have extended the detention period of two French journalists accused of violating the terms of their tourist visas…

Jakarta – Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has demanded an end to what it calls the Indonesian security forces' attacks on freedom of…

Papua – Two French tourists detained at the Jayapura Immigration Office claim they were simply carrying out their journalistic duties…

Further information on UA: 199/14 Index: ASA 21/023/2014 Indonesia Date: 29 August 2014

One of the two Papuan students tortured or…

Index: ASA 21/022/2014

Indonesian authorities must end attacks on freedom of expression in the country's Papuan region, Amnesty…

Amy McQuire – An international human rights group is calling for urgent action after two West Papuan students, one still a child, were allegedly…

Jayapura – The body of West Papua National Committee (KNPB) leader Marthinus Yohame, buried at the Sorong city cemetery on Aug. 27,…

Democratic Labour Party Senator John Madigan has urged the Australian Government to not turn a blind eye to Indonesia's treatment of the…

Jayapura, Papua – Two tourists from France, who have been detained in Jayapura immigration office, Papua, confessed to have taken coverage while…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Human rights activists called on police on Wednesday to investigate the death of the Sorong Raya West Papua…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua Police are preparing for an autopsy to be carried out to reveal the cause of death of Marthinus Yohame,…

The Australian West Papua Association says Australia's proposed anti-terrorism laws could be applied to activist groups like itself in…

A spokesperson for the Australian Democratic Labour Party says the arrest of two French journalists in West Papua is unacceptable, and…