Today we protested outside the Indonesian Embassy in London, the United Kingdom to demand an end to Indonesia’s brutal occupation of West Papua. Yesterday marks exactly 52 years to the day when Indonesia first illegally occupied West Papua on 1st May 1963. It is known to West Papuans as “The Day of Terror”. Thousands of […]

Today West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda with some other members of the Free West Papua Campaign visited Brighton where Benny gave a talk at local Radio Station, Radio Reverb. After playing a traditional song, Benny spoke of the terrible suffering in Indonesian occupied West Papua and how music was being used to spread the […]

We urge all supporters to watch and share this video calling for West Papua to be accepted into the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) this summer. The people of West Papua are Melanesian, not Indonesian.

Benny Wenda wrote this statement yesterday after a Pacific Solidarity movement for West Papua was declared at the Free West Papua Campaign protest in London “We are launching a major campaign today, starting here in the United Kingdom. From now on we are calling on all our Melanesian and Pan-Pacific brothers and sisters to unite hand in […]

We have compiled this draft letter for Melanesians to send to their MP’s and asking them to support West Papua joining the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). West Papuans need all the support they can get from all fellow Melanesians so please do send this letter and help to bring West Papua back to the Melanesian family. […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEaTvMobgVM

JAYAPURA – Police blockade Papua People’s Action, But People Not Give Up. May 1st, West Papua, around 200 people arrested, reports of 1 person shot dead and others in hospital on Friday (01/05/2015) in Nabire – West Papua. Secretary of the National Committee of West Papua (KNPB), Nesta Ones Suhuniap said Indonesian police blockaded the […]

A total of 264 people were arrested by Indonesian security forces in West Papua on May 1st, including Mrs Pangkrasia, Leader of the Peoples parliament in Merauke and national spokesman of the KNPB Bazooka Logo. 264 PEOPLE IN ACTION Captured by Indonesian police during REFUSE annexation of West Papua protest 1 May 2015. Dissolution forced […]

West Papua is a land rich with resources, they have the world’s largest gold mine, rain forests and lots of land. For more than 50 years they’ve been under Indonesian rule and their struggle for independence has been kept undercover until now ….and to talk about this on this week’s Talanoa segment, we look their […]

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