Australia West Papua Association calls on Australian government to call for a...
The Australia West Papua Association has written to the Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd calling on him to use his good offices with the Indonesian President asking that he call a halt to all military...
View ArticleIndon security forces fail to stop huge rally demanding a referundum in West...
Media alert westpapuamedia.info Tuesday, August 2, 2011 The streets of several centres across West Papua are being blockaded today by heavily armed Indonesian security forces in an attempt to prevent a...
View ArticleUK Company backs Free West Papua campaign
The huge cosmetics chain LUSH has decided to back the Free West Papua campaign. 100 shops across the UK will be displaying a large poster of the Morning Star flag in their window for the next week, and...
View ArticleIndonesian police and army fire on West Papuan Congress
Breaking News: Reports are coming out of West Papua of Indonesian police and army firing on people attending the Papuan Congress. Report by West Papua media on October 19 states: Confirmed report from...
View ArticleIndonesian crackdown on Papuan Congress sparks outrage
A joint statement by TAPOL (UK), the West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT, US) and East Timor Action Network (ETAN, US). On Wednesday, a meeting of thousands of indigenous Papuans in Jayapura, West Papua,...
View ArticleCall for suspension of military ties with Indonesia
The shootings and arrests of people meeting peacefully at the Third West Papuan Peoples Congress at Abepura this week are the latest instance of Indonesia’s violent and repressive rule in West...
View ArticleIndonesian Commando Btn 755 brutalise Puncak Jaya villagers
by Nick Chesterfield at westpapuamedia.info - November 5, 2011 Indonesian army (TNI) commandos have terrorised and severely beat villagers in Kurulu District in Puncak Jaya in another show of extreme...
View ArticleThousands of Papuans take to the streets calling for referendum
Okezone - November 14, 2011 Nurlina Umasugi, Jayapura -- Thousands of Papuans from the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) held a 15 kilometer march on Monday afternoon to demand a referendum for the...
View ArticleLeaked video shows brutal attack on peaceful protest
Leaked video shows the Indonesian military treating indigenous West Papuans like animals.Indonesian security forces, many in plain clothes and wearing crash helmets, are seen randomly firing their...
View ArticleIndonesia Jails Five West Papuans
Indonesia jails five peaceful protestors for treason. Amnesty is calling for their immediate release.- Five West Papuan citizens have been jailed for THREE YEARS for peacefully expressing their...
View ArticleSydney councils back West Papua
Two Sydney councils have decided to raise the banned “Morning Star” flag to commemorate the national day of West Papua.Marrickville Council and Leichhardt Council will both hoist the West Papuan flag...
View ArticleWest Papua's Prisoners of Conscience
A new website and campaign has been launched to highlight Indonesia’s appalling record of jailing peaceful activists. www.papuansbehindbars.orgThe website is intended to support advocacy for the rights...
View ArticleBob Carr on West Papua
Foreign minister Bob Carr has been directly challenged in a public hearing over his weak position on the human rights crisis in West Papua.Greens Senator Richard Di Natale clashed with Carr during a...
View ArticleBob Carr publicly attacks West Papua activists
Foreign minister Bob Carr has angrily attacked a group of Australians who are travelling to West Papua, to highlight the continued abuses under Indonesian rule.The so called Freedom Flotilla is a small...
View ArticleWest Papuan National Day Goes Global
This Sunday the 1st of December 2013 events will be held across West Papua, Australia and the world to mark the day West Papua’s flag was first raised in preparation for Independence from the Dutch in...
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