Tag: NZ pilot crisis
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...
Wenda calls on Papuan freedom fighters to free NZ pilot ‘unconditionally’
Asia Pacific Report
The president of a West Papuan advocacy group has appealed to the militants holding New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens hostage to free...
Duncan Graham: Compromise worked in Aceh – why not West Papua?
There are parallels between Indonesia’s Aceh where an Australian surfer faced a flogging, and West Papua where a New Zealand pilot may be facing...
OPM call for PNG’s James Marape as negotiator for NZ pilot’s safe passage
Asia Pacific Report
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed for Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape to become a “neutral intermediary”...
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...