AWPA has called on the Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr to urgently raise concerns about the crackdown on peaceful activists in West Papua.…

Demonstrations planned for Wednesday, 31 October 2012

What: As Indonesian security forces opened fire on unarmed protestors…

Index: ASA 21/041/2012

Amnesty International calls on the Indonesian security forces to halt the excessive use of force and firearms…

A number of students from Cenderawasih University (UNCEN) took part in a rally outside the office of the DPRP, the Legislative Assembly of Papua,…

Dr Richard Di Natale
Greens Senator for Victoria

The Australian Greens have expressed serious concern about reports of…

Contributor Manado, Ronny Adolof Buol – As reported earlier, Papuans living in North Sulawesi, specifically those in Manado city held a protest…

Jakarta – Police today attacked a journalist covering a rally organised by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) in Manokwari in West Papua.…

London, UK – A week before Indonesia's president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to the UK, Parliamentarians, Peers and civil society…

The Commonwealth Attorney-General should push for a full, independent and public investigation into the alleged involvement of an Indonesian…

Antara/Ratna Nuraini – A demonstration by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) that took place in Manokwari this morning ended in chaos. As a…

Please share the following video footage via social media and please put pressure on the Indonesian government to withdraw all armed forces from…

Jakarta – Five police officers, one journalist were injured and eleven reportedly detained when a rally staged by West Papua National Committee (…

Camelia Pasandaran & Oktovianus Pogau – The Indonesian Military (TNI) and Papua Police opened fire on protestors in Manokwari, shooting two…

Reports have been received from human rights investigators detailing a torture incident that occurred in Serui on October 17, 2012, under the…

Nick Chesterfield – As a major crackdown by Indonesian security forces deepens against West Papuan civil resistance activists ahead of mass…

Nick Chesterfield, with local sources – Indonesian Special Forces officers have redoubled their efforts to hunt down non-violent women's and…

As commemorations marking the Third Papuan People's Congress were forcibly broken up by heavy handed security forces in Jayapura, the celebrations…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-185-2012

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information…

London – A week after Indonesia's president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to the UK, parliamentarians from around the world and local civil…

The plan by a group of people to commemorate the events that occurred last year at the time of the Third Papuan People's Congress (KRP III) when…

Papuan political activists and human rights defenders are living in increasing fear as a result of an intensifying crackdown by Indonesian police…

Nick Chesterfield, with Westpapuamedia stringers – Amid an intensification of armed security sweeps against West Papuan clanspeople around Wamena…

Jayapura – A group called the Federated State of West Papua, known by its Indonesian initials as the NFRPB plans to mark the first anniversary of…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua gubernatorial election process has resumed with the issuance of the Papua General Elections Commission (…

A specialist in Papua affairs says Indonesian lawmakers are displaying inconsistent approaches to the ongoing security problem in…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has urged the government to take concrete actions to stem the burgeoning support…

A commander from the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPN) has categorically denied any responsibility or involvement in an alleged bombing…

An Australian-funded police unit in West Papua has again been implicated in a crackdown on the region's independence movement.

Leigh Sales,…

WPM and local sources – Over a thousand people who had gathered in Manokwari on Tuesday (2/10) to demonstrate in support of the independence…

Farouk Arnaz – Convicted terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir has blasted the police's "lenient" action against members of a Papuan pro-independence group…

To: The Australian Ambassador in The Netherlands.
His Excellency Mr. Neil Mules.
C/- Australian Embassy
Carnegielaan 4
2517 KH The…

Dear Friends of West Papua,

Recent information received by the Free West Papua Campaign indicates that the Indonesian National Police and…

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the shooting of a civilian on 24 September, 2012…

Further information on UA: 109/12. Index: ASA 21/040/2012

On 17 September, prisoner of conscience Filep Karma received medical…

Farouk Arnaz & Jonathan Vit – Papua Police arrested seven members of the pro-independence West Papua National Committee (KNPB) on Saturday in…

Scott Waide – After decades of maintaining a relatively neutral stance, the Papua New Guinea Government will finally be making a strong…

A major raid occurred on Saturday by troops from the Indonesian army (TNI) and Australian-trained Detachment 88 counter-terror unit on activists…

Alex Rayfield – Two West Papuan activists currently in police detention in Yapen Island in West Papua are being threatened with twenty years jail…

Jonathan Vit – New Zealand's public pension fund pulled more than $1 million in investment from Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold over…

Deputy chairman of the House of Representatives' Commission II on regional autonomy, Ganjar Pranowo, said that lawmakers would support…

Timika, Papua – Police in Papua's Mimika district will use CCTV recordings to help identify members of a 300-strong mob that attacked a Freeport…

IHRC is delighted that the NZ Superannuation Fund has decided to pull its investments from the Freeport McMoran mining giant. (NZ Superannuation…

Jayapura – Buchtar Tabuni, 32, human rights activist and leader of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), was sentenced to eight…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Activists and rights campaigners have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to use his visit to Papua…

UA: 273/12 Index: ASA 21/039/2012

Papuan human rights lawyer Olga Hamadi has been threatened after investigating allegations of…

A mob of some 300 people on Friday attacked an office of gold mining company Freeport Indonesia in Timika, Papua.

The angry crowd also…

Jim Elmslie – Allegations that Australia is funding death squads in West Papua have brought the troubled province back to Australian attention.…

Jakarta – The bounty offered by a separatist group, the Free Papua Movement (OPM), for the arrest of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during his…

Farouk Arnaz – Papua's new police chief vowed to take a grassroots approach to stopping the violence that has plagued this restive province during…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has responded angrily over a move by pro-Papua independence activists who have…