How do you get world attention for a cause to help save your culture? The freedom fighters of West Papua are asking that very question. On February 7, 2023, 37-year-old Phil Mehrtens, a New Zealand ...

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck West Papua, Indonesia, on Friday. The German Research Centre for Geosciences reported the ...

Last week the 22nd Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders’ Summit was held in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The MSG is a regional body that includes Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea as ...

A new study reports that the Bird’s Head Seascape off Indonesia’s West Papua serves as a vital habitat for juvenile male whale sharks, but lift-net fisheries, tourism boats and emerging mining ...

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 ...

Budi Hernawan said it ten years ago: “torture in Papua … has become a mode of governance.” It hasn’t stopped. It’s got worse. It’s got worse precisely because it’s a mode of governance accepted and ...

Apart from the brutality it undergirds, almost always fuelling violence, there’s something truly unhinged about political disinformation, especially in Indonesian-occupied West Papua because it’s so ...

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 ...

As the hostage-taking of New Zealand pilot Philip Mark Mehrtens enters its sixth consecutive month, his whereabouts in eastern Indonesia remain unknown. As Indonesian forces continue their manhunt for ...

Authorities in the Indonesian territory have blamed the killing on a separatist rebel group, which last year was responsible for kidnapping another New Zealand pilot. By Yan Zhuang and Muktita ...

Camellia Webb-Gannon has received funding from the Australian Research Council. “Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is – no one ever had anything bad to say about him”, says a colleague of ...

The solidarity group West Papua Action Aotearoa with West Papua Action Tamaki are hosting a public Forum in Auckland March 7 and 8 with international guests from West Papua including environmental ...