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Damien Kingsbury has advised a number of separatist organisations on negotiations to end conflict, most notably in Aceh in 2005. New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has now been held hostage in West ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: Indonesia: Renewed Fighting Threatens West Papua Civilians
(New York) – An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan separatist armed groups in West Papua has seriously threatened the security of the largely Indigenous population, ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: Indonesian Imperialism Is Alive – And Brutal – in West Papua
Supporters of the independence of the West Papua shout slogans during a rally commemorating the 59th anniversary of the failed efforts by Papuan tribal chiefs to declare independence from Dutch ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: Indonesia: Separatists murder New Zealand pilot in Papua
Separatists in Indonesia's restive Papua region ambushed a helicopter on Monday and murdered its New Zealand pilot. The pilot, 50-year-old Glen Malcolm Conning, was killed after he landed in Alama, a ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: Paniai, West Papua: Politics of Displacement
The Dutch colonisers of West Papua thought the island of New Guinea looked like a bird, so called its northwestern tip Vogelkop (Bird’s Head). In what is now Indonesian-occupied West Papua, Paniai, an ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: West Papua: Where Transmigration Means Genocide, Ecocide and, in the End, Suicide
Sugar-cane planting ceremony in Merauke, West Papua, July 2024. Indonesian presidential office handout/Muchlis Jr. “By way of transmigration … the different ethnic groups will in the long run ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: Indonesia says 17 people slain by Papua rebels were gold miners
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on Thursday denied claims by separatist rebels in the Papua region that at least ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: Fighting threatens indigenous civilians in Indonesia’s West Papua: report
Escalating violence in Indonesia’s West Papua region is threatening the security of the largely Indigenous population amid intensified clashes between Indonesian security forces and separatist rebels, ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: Indonesia’s new government pushes transmigration plan, stirring protests in Papua
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, who assumed office on October 20, 2024, has announced the revival of the transmigration program, which encourages citizens to populate the country’s eastern ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: Could the Papua Hostage Situation Have Been Prevented?
As Indonesian forces continue their manhunt for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by Papuan resistance fighters in February, the chances of his peaceful release are growing slimmer – and the ...
News Indonesia » West Papua » Life: 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 ...