Tag: Indonesia
Critical D-day over Papua governor Lukas Enembe’s legal nightmare?
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
Next month, on July 10, six months will have passed since Papua’s Governor Lukas Enembe was “kidnapped” and flown to...
West Papua’s customary region leaders back full MSG membership
Asia Pacific Report
Seven executives representing all the customary regions of West Papua have declared their support for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua...
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...
NGOs work in ‘public interest – not foreign lackeys’, says activist in Jakarta libel case
Asia Pacific Report
A defendant in an Indonesian case of alleged defamation, Fatia Maulidiyanti, has hit back at a statement by Coordinating Minister for Maritime...
Papuan students accused of ‘treason’ over raising Morning Star flags
Jubi News
The trial of three Papuan “free speech” students accused of treason has resumed at the Jayapura District Court this week.
The defendants — Yoseph...
West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG
Asia Pacific Report
The self-styled provisional government of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua
“with the people” of the Melanesian region have declared political support...