Pacific civil society groups are adding their weight to a call for a Pacific Islands Forum mission to the Indonesian region of West Papua.

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The West Papua independence activist, Benny Wenda, has been denied entry into Papua New Guinea.

Mr Wenda was invited to Port Moresby by the…

Archipelago – Dozens of Papuan students demonstrated on Friday in Malang, East Java, calling on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to bring an end to…

Eko Widianto, Malang – Dozens of students from Papua united under the Papuan Students Alliance launched a protest at the Malang City Hall on…

Siteri Sauvakacolo and Solomone Rabulu – West Papua will apply to be a member of the Pacific Islands Development Forum, even though freedom…

Katharina R. Lestari, Jakarta – Indonesian Bishop John Philip Saklil of Timika in Indonesia's Papua province accused the military and police of…

Jayapura, Jubi – Chairman of the Board of Regional Leadership Student Association Central Mountains of Papua Indonesia (DPW-AMPTPI) East Indonesia…

Jayapura, Jubi – Political prisoner Filep Karma has refused sentence cuts granted to prisoners by the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Conducting its own investigation into a recent shooting in Koperapoka, Mimika regency, Papua, that claimed the…

Jakarta – A National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) team is scheduled to visit Timika, Papua, in the beginning of September to…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Two members of the Military District Command (Kodim) 1710/Timika have been arrested following a shooting in…

Mimika, Papua – Two people were killed and two others seriously injured when two soldiers opened fire in Timika Baru district, Mimika regency, in…

Robert Vanwi Subiyat, Jayapura – The Indonesian Military (TNI) said on Friday that a shooting that left dead two civilians and injured four in…

Michael Taylor and Wilda Asmarini, Jakarta – Freeport-McMoran said exports of copper from its giant Indonesian mine have slowed to a trickle over…

Santon Tekege – Nabire based human rights activist Gunawan Inggeruhi has stated that an oil palm company managed by PT New Nabire and PT SAD, has…

It remains unclear whether the West Papuan activist Filep Karma will soon walk free from Abepura Prison in Indonesia's eastern region.

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Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Newly inaugurated Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said that…

Carmel Sepuloni was one of around ten MPs who met with the visiting secretary-general of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, Octo Mote…

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua is calling on the Pacific Islands Forum leaders to send a human rights fact finding mission to the…

While New Zealand protesters were giving an emphatic thumbs down to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership corporate slap in the face of democracy…

Auckland – West Papuan pro-independence leader Octo Mote, currently visiting New Zealand on a lobbying mission, marched in solidarity along with…

Ben Hillier – "West Papuans know this day, 15 August, as 'Betrayal Day'." Jacob Rumbiak, a veteran leader of the West Papuan nationalist movement…

Fiji – The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has today welcomed the recommendation set by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat's…

Lealaiauloto Aigaletaulealea Tauafiafi – In the 1960s, West Papuans were sacrificed in the name of Cold War politics – and the United Nations have…

Jayapura – An unidentified person burned an Indonesian flag in Mimika Baru, Timika city, Papua, on Thursday ahead of the 70th anniversary of…

Girish Sawlani – The Papua New Guinea Defence Force has denied reports from a senior Indonesian official that its soldiers claimed part of…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military, or TNI, says it will set up a security post in the Papuan border village of Yakyu, in Merauke district,…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Papuan independence leader Filep Karma is due to be released next week from prison, even as he resists freedom until…

Jakarta – Newly appointed Papua Police chief Paulus Waterpauw said that he would continue the legal follow up of the Tolikara incident in Papua…

Jayapura, Jubi – – The church has demanded Papua Police to remove the Jayapura deputy police chief (Wakapolres) be fired over a raid carried out…

Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) announced on Monday that it had found four human rights violations during a clash…

Moyang Kasih Dewimerdeka, Jakarta – Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P Marsudi said that her Ministry is planning to streamline the process for…

Pacnews – Increased regional awareness of alleged violence and human rights violations in West Papua has convinced the Pacific Islands Forum…

Jakarta – Chairman of House of Representatives Commission I overseeing foreign affairs and defense Mahfudz Siddiq has called for a probe on the…

Dear Pacific Island Forum leaders,

We are writing to you at a critical juncture for the people of West Papua and regional recognition of…

Jayapura – The Papuan Police questioned Evangelical Church in Indonesia (GIDI) president Dorman Wandikbo for six hours on Sunday over a fatal…

Jakarta, Jubi – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno said the government is adopting a…

Open letter to Pacific Island Forum leaders – West Papua must be raised at the 46th Pacific Islands Forum Meeting.

Dear Pacific…

Oktovianus Pogau, Jayapura – The president of the Evangelical Church of Indonesia (GIDI), Pastor Dorman Wandikmbo insists that the mushola (small…

Jayapura, Jubi – Human right activist Markus Haluk said the threat of Papuan population has became obvious. The population of indigenous Papuan…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Tolikara Police chief, Adj. Sr. Comr. Soeroso, has been reassigned following the recent riot, which saw angry…

The Australia West Papua Association is calling on Pacific Islands Forum leaders to address what it describes as a deteriorating human rights…

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Giant gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia has received certainty from the Energy and Mineral Resources…

Greg Poulgrain, Brisbane, Australia – One main issue is still to be resolved in the hard bargaining by Freeport Indonesia regarding its contract…

Dear Pacific Islands Forum leaders,

On behalf of the Australia West Papua Association (Sydney), I am writing to you concerning the…

We the undersigned are part of a national solidarity network supporting a free West Papua. We publicly disassociate ourselves from the anti-Muslim…

Retno Ayuningtyas & Dion Bisara, Jakarta – Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US mining giant Freeport McMoRan, remains hopeful to secure…

Susan Taylor, Bernadette Christina & Fergus Jensen, Toronto/Jakarta – Shares of diversified miner and energy producer Freeport-McMoRan sank…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Human rights activists have called on the government and the National Police to carry out a transparent…

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta, Central Java – Despite a peace agreement after an incident in Tolikara, Papua, thousands of Muslims from various…