Tag: hostage
Jakarta’s rights commission criticised for ‘failure’ over NZ pilot hostage case
By Singgih Wiryono in Jakarta
Indonesia’s former National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik says it is difficult to expect Komnas HAM...
I was involved in stalled talks to free kidnapped NZ pilot in West Papua. What happens now?
ANALYSIS: By Damien Kingsbury
New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens has now been held hostage in West Papua for four months. Stalled attempts to negotiate his...
Author-poet condemns Papuan rebel threat to shoot NZ hostage pilot if denied talks
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian author-poet and advocate for West Papuan independence has condemned a reported threat against the life of a New Zealand hostage...
Open letter plea for NZ to back West Papua peaceful hostage plan
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand advocacy group has appealed to the government to heed the call of West Papuan church leaders for Indonesia to...
‘I’m alive, healthy . . . stop the bombs,’ says kidnapped NZ pilot in new West Papua video
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens, who is being held by pro-independence fighters in West Papua, appears well in a newly-released video.
It comes as...
Indonesian security forces attack West Papuan rebels holding NZ pilot
By Finau Fonua and Koroi Hawkins
Indonesian security forces in Papua last week launched an offensive against the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) command...