Indonesia News » West Papua News Indonesia » West Papua: I was involved in talks to free a kidnapped Kiwi pilot in West Papua. With negotiations stalled, what happens now?
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has now been held hostage in West Papua for four months. Stalled attempts to negotiate his release, and an unsuccessful Indonesian military rescue attempt, suggest a ...
News Indonesia » West Papua: West Papuan Civil Society Calls For UN And Pacific Access To Region
Johnny Blades RNZ Pacific senior journalist. West Papuan civil society organisations have called on Indonesia to allow access to their region for the United Nations High Commissio ...
News Indonesia » West Papua: Indonesia urged to grant unfettered access to conflict-torn Papua
A coalition of church, indigenous, civil society, women and youth groups has urged the Indonesian government to grant international monitors unrestricted access to Papua and take immediate action on ...
News Indonesia » West Papua: The NZ pilot held hostage in West Papua is the pawn in a conflict only real international engagement can resolve
“Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is – no one ever had anything bad to say about him”, says a colleague of the New Zealand pilot taken hostage this week by members of the West Papuan ...
News Indonesia » West Papua: Gunmen Kill New Zealand Pilot in Papua Amid Escalating Violence
Authorities in the Indonesian territory have blamed the killing on a separatist rebel group, which last year was responsible for kidnapping another New Zealand pilot. By Yan Zhuang and Muktita ...
News Indonesia » West Papua: West Papua’s Green State Vision: Social Movement, Therefore “Terrorism”
Apart from the brutality it undergirds, almost always fuelling violence, there’s something truly unhinged about political disinformation, especially in Indonesian-occupied West Papua because it’s so ...
News Indonesia » West Papua: US pilot 'killed', plane torched in Papua; rebels call attack a 'message' to America & Indonesia
Papua separatist rebels on Thursday claimed to have shot dead an American pilot and set a civilian aircraft on fire after it landed in Indonesia's easternmost Papua region, alleging it was ...
News Indonesia » West Papua: Militants squabble over fate of New Zealand pilot on anniversary of his kidnapping
Militant rebels in Indonesia’s restive West Papua are urging their most feared comrade to release a New Zealand pilot held hostage for a year. A group of armed fighters led by tribal warlord Eganius ...
News Indonesia » West Papua: West Papua: The Torture Mode Of Governance
Budi Hernawan said it ten years ago: “torture in Papua … has become a mode of governance.” It hasn’t stopped. It’s got worse. It’s got worse precisely because it’s a mode of governance accepted and ...