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November 27, 2020

Asia Pacific Report - November 27, 2020

Pacific Media Centre – An appeal for a 40-day fast across the region by the Pacific Council of Churches in support of West Papua closes next week…

November 26, 2020

Jakarta Post - November 26, 2020

Benny Mawel, Jakarta – Five civilians, including minors, were reportedly shot by unidentified assailants in two separate incidents in Papua's…

Radio New Zealand - November 26, 2020

Reports from Indonesian's Papua region say a West Papuan teenager was shot dead in a mystery attack in the central highlands.

November 25, 2020

West Papua ›› Military Ties & Arms Trade
Asia Pacific Report - November 25, 2020

Pacific Media Centre – Campaigners at a TAPOL-hosted global webinar have called on the people of Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United…

Jakarta Post - November 25, 2020

Saskia Raishaputri, London – Papua is brewing, its people taking to the streets last year in large numbers to show their discontent at being a…

November 24, 2020

West Papua ›› Corruption & Abuse of Power
Jakarta Post - November 24, 2020

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – In an effort to curtail corrupt behavior and criminal activity in the country's easternmost provinces, the Corruption…

West Papua ›› OPM & Armed Resistance
Tempo - November 24, 2020

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The Indonesian national police (Polri) together with the National Armed Forces (TNI) will conduct massive…

November 23, 2020

Tempo - November 23, 2020

Antara, Jayapura – The Advocate for Papua Policy and Human Rights (PAK HAM) has condemned the fatal shooting incident in Ilaga Subdistrict, Puncak…

November 21, 2020

Jakarta Post - November 21, 2020

Arya Dipa, Bandung – One person is dead and two others injured after a landslide struck Sindangkerta village, Cianjur, West Java, on Friday.

November 20, 2020

West Papua ›› Treason & Subversion
CNN Indonesia - November 20, 2020

Jakarta – Police have released 54 participants of a Papuan People's Council (MRP) public hearing on Special Autonomy in Papua who were arrested…

Radio New Zealand - November 20, 2020

A human rights campaigner in West Papua has been arrested by Indonesian security forces. Film-maker Wensislaus Fatubun was one of 54…

Radio New Zealand - November 20, 2020

The British government is encouraging Indonesia to allow access to West Papua for the UN human rights chief's office. It's part of the…

November 19, 2020

West Papua ›› Military Ties & Arms Trade
Radio New Zealand - November 19, 2020

Indonesian police in West Papua claim to have thwarted an underground arms syndicate in the region.

The Antara news agency…

West Papua ›› Treason & Subversion
CNN Indonesia - November 19, 2020

Jakarta – On Tuesday November 17 the Merauke district police arrested more than 50 people from the Papuan People's Council (MRP) in relation to a…

Jakarta Post - November 19, 2020

A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – Semarang State University (Unnes) in Central Java has suspended a student for six months after he reported the…

November 18, 2020

West Papua ›› Treason & Subversion
Kompas - November 18, 2020

Police arrested 54 participants of a public hearing organised by the Papuan People's Council (MPR) at the Valentine Hotel in Merauke regency in…

CNN Indonesia - November 18, 2020

Semarang – Frans Josua Napitu, a Semarang State University (Unnes) student who reported the university's rector to the Corruption Eradication…

November 17, 2020

Jakarta Post - November 17, 2020

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has pushed for the government to legally process the military member…

November 16, 2020

CNN Indonesia - November 16, 2020

Jakarta – Demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have protested the police's actions in blocking them when they wanted to hold a…

November 15, 2020

Tempo - November 15, 2020

Antara, Jakarta – General Chairman of the Indonesian Mosques Council (DMI) and former VP Jusuf Kalla has hinted that he is ready to mediate a…

Kompas.com - November 15, 2020

Dhias Suwandi, Jayapura – A group of people in Wamena, Jayawijaya regency, Papua, have blocked the arrival of an entourage from the Papuan People'…

November 14, 2020

Tempo - November 14, 2020

Jakarta – The shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani in Kampung Hitadipa in Intan Jaya Regency, Papua, on September 19, conjured up memories of…

November 13, 2020

Jakarta Post - November 13, 2020

Jakarta – The Army Military Police have named eight soldiers suspects for allegedly burning down an official residence of the Intan Jaya Health…

November 12, 2020

Jakarta Post - November 12, 2020

Jakarta – The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani, who was shot dead in September in Intan Jaya Regency, Papua, has demanded that the military…

CNN Indonesia - November 12, 2020

Jakarta – The Army's Central Military Police commander, Lieutenant General Dodik Wijanarko, says that a joint army (TNI AD) investigation team has…

November 10, 2020

CNN Indonesia - November 10, 2020

Jakarta – The family of Papuan Pastor Yeremia Zanambani who was shot dead on September 19 in Hitadipa district, Intan Jaya, Papua, says it does…

November 9, 2020

Radio New Zealand - November 9, 2020

Indonesia's military has denied that a West Papuan teenager died as a result of a raid by its officers.

Trouble began with a traffic…

West Papua ›› Military Ties & Arms Trade
East Timor and Indonesia Action Network News Release - November 9, 2020

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) condemns the recent murder of West Papuan Rapinus Tigau, a Catholic Catechist in the diocese of…

November 7, 2020

Jakarta Post - November 7, 2020

Alya Nurbaiti and Benny Mawel, Jakarta and Jayapura – Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers reportedly attacked and arrested civilians at a dormitory…

November 6, 2020

Tempo - November 6, 2020

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military is strongly suspected of being behind the death of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani. This only moves Papua further away…

November 5, 2020

Jakarta Post - November 5, 2020

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD has ensured that the government is committed…

November 4, 2020

West Papua ›› Analysis & Opinion
Jakarta Post Editorial - November 4, 2020

Jakarta – Both the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and the local independent Humanitarian Team for Intan Jaya reached a more or…

November 3, 2020

Kompas.com - November 3, 2020

Devina Halim, Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) monitoring and investigation team has revealed that there have been…

Kompas.com - November 3, 2020

Achmad Nasrudin Yahya, Jakarta – Indonesian Human Rights Watch (Imparsial) director Al Araf is asking on the government to reevaluate the security…

November 2, 2020

Jakarta Post - November 2, 2020

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – A soldier allegedly tortured and shot Papuan pastor Yeremia Zanambani at close range in the latter's pig pen in Hitadipa…

Asia Pacific Report - November 2, 2020

West Papuan activists and an Indonesian human rights lawyer criticised the recent military crackdown on the two Melanesian provinces of Papua and…

Reuters - November 2, 2020

Jakarta – Indonesia's human rights commission said on Monday that a fact-finding team believed the military had tortured a pastor in the country's…

October 30, 2020

CNN Indonesia - October 30, 2020

Jakarta – The head of the Papua Province Humanitarian Team for Cases of Violence Against Religious Figures in Intan Jaya Regency, Haris Azhar, has…

Jakarta Post - October 30, 2020

Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – An independent team calling itself the Intan Jaya Humanity Team has alleged that Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel…

October 28, 2020

Asia Pacific Report - October 28, 2020

Pacific Media Watch – The United Liberation Movement if West Papua (ULMWP) has accused the Indonesian government of imposing martial law on the…

CNN Indonesia - October 28, 2020

Jakarta – The Papua regional police managed to arrest 13 people protesting against Special Autonomy in the vicinity of the Cenderawasih University…

West Papua ›› Film & Television
Jakarta Post - October 28, 2020

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo inaugurated a new station of state-owned television provider TVRI in West Papua on…

October 27, 2020

CNN Indonesia - October 27, 2020

Jakarta – On Monday October 26 combined units of Indonesian military (TNI) and police (Polri) conducted operations against an armed criminal group…

SBS News - October 27, 2020

Virginia Langeberg – More than a dozen university students have been injured in an incident in the Papuan capital, Jayapura, with witnesses…

Mongabay - October 27, 2020

The alleged assault of an Indigenous man in the Indonesian province of Papua by a police officer around two hours before he died was caught on…

Jakarta Post - October 27, 2020

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – A Papuan resident whom authorities claimed was a member of a local armed criminal group was shot dead during a joint…

Radio New Zealand - October 27, 2020

Students in the capital of Indonesia's Papua province have had to flee gunshots as security forces disbanded a demonstration.

October 25, 2020

West Papua ›› OPM & Armed Resistance
Tempo - October 25, 2020

Antara, Jakarta – The North Jakarta District Court scheduled the first trial of PT Freeport Indonesia security officer Ivan Sambom, alias Indius…

Organisation for World Peace (OWP) - October 25, 2020

Pasepa Katia – West Papua, a Melanesian island bordering Papua New Guinea in the Pacific, has struggled for decades to achieve independence.

October 24, 2020

International Christian Concern - October 24, 2020

Washington D.C. – A pastor named Yeremia Zanambani was killed on September 19, 2020, in Hitadipa, Papua. According to the report from Pantau, "A…