Indonesian police threaten the ULMWP secretariat in Fak Fak, West Papua. Following the ULM’s recent recognition by the Melanesian Spearhead Group the Indonesian government has reacted by threatening members of the ULM. Indonesian police have accused, Mr. Apnel Hegemur (Responsible ULMWP Regional Secretariat of the consortium), Br. Mr. Roy Marthen Murry (Secretary ULMWP Secretariat) and […]

The West Papua police have received a boost to their armoury with new firearms and vehicles from the National Police in Jakarta.The West Papua Police Chief, Brigadier General Paulus Warterpauw, told Tabloid Jubi the firearms consist of 246 guns of a range of calibres, for police to carry on the ground.There are also ten cars […]

The situation in the Indonesian province of West Papua is similar to East Timor just before independence, a West Papuan activist has announced at a protest in Darwin. A group of about 60 people have erected a temporary hut embassy outside Parliament House, calling for West Papuan independence from Indonesia.   Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-06/papuan-rotesters-at-parliament-house-in-darwin/6597898

Free West Papua activists evicted After two days of demonstrating outside the parliament building in Northern Territory, Australia. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/08/west-papua-activists-evicted-from-northern-territory-parliament-grounds A group of West Papua activists has been evicted from the grounds of the Northern Territory Parliament House in Darwin after they erected a hut as an “embassy” and spent two days protesting against Indonesian human rights […]

  On Sunday 5 July, the Free West Papua Campaign once again joined the Cowley Road Carnival in Oxford, United Kingdom along with other West Papuans from the Netherlands. We are always happy to join this carnival and we felt very proud today to march and dance through the historic streets of Oxford raising the […]

40 people ARRESTED TODAY DURING PRAYER in WEST PAPUA to say thanks for United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) to be accepted as an OBSERVER at the MSG Fakfak 03 July 2015. Thanksgiving worship for west papua as observer in MSG 40 people arrested. Photo some of the 40 people who are arrested while […]

*URGENT NEWS*-Reports of another massacre of children in Paniai, West Papua.  According to reports, today one 15 year old Papuan boy was killed by the Indonesian police and military. Up to 11 others have been shot including 6 children. This apparently happened in Ugapuga village, Kamu Timur, in the Dogiyai Regency. Photo: Yoseni Agapa, 15 […]

New article from Australia. Please read. West Papuans face ignorance, corruption and racism from Jakarta. Indonesia claims there is “still a lot more land” in West Papua they can take and give to more Javanese transmigrants. Indonesia to divide West Papua into small provinces “for security reasons, to guard this ‘huge area’ against ‘foreign intervention”. […]

A Melanesian specialist says the West Papuan nationalist coalition that received observer status at the Melanesian Spearhead Group could follow a similar path to the FLNKS, which represents New Caledonia’s Kanak people. Associate Professor Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, from the University of Hawaii, says while the decision to only grant the group observer status may be […]

News from ABC Australia. West Papua formally recognised by Melanesia group. For the first time a coalition of West Papuan nationalist groups has been given formal diplomatic recognition after being admitted to a regional grouping of Melanesian countries. At its leaders summit in Solomon Islands the Melanesian Spearhead Group has decided to grant the United […]