WE WILL NOT VOTE! In 2014 the Republic of Indonesia will try to hold elections in West Papua. We the Papuan peoples refuse to vote in these elections. Why? Today West Papua is illegally occupied by Indonesia. We have a right to freedom. We will vote in a proper referendum on self-determination. But we will […]

Benny Wenda one of the West Papuan leaders of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) speaking at the Palm Sunday: Declare Peace on Refugees rally in King George Square, Brisbane CBD on 29 March 2015

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu with Benny Wenda in St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa. 27th Feb 2015. On 27th February 2015 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu met with West Papuan independence leader and founder of the Free West Papua Campaign, Benny Wenda, in Cape Town, South Africa. He has released the following statement renewing his […]

AMNESTY READING – Benny Wenda addressed Amnesty International regarding West Papuan political prisoner on Thursday, 12th March in Reading, United Kingdom. Benny spoke of how the Indonesian government is still holding dozens of political prisoners in West Papua such as Filep Karma who has been jailed for 15 years ever since 2004 just for raising […]

EXILED West Papuan pro-independence leader Benny Wenda is hoping Fiji will support his movement’s bid for membership in the Melanesian Spearhead Group. [ Visit Website ]

Editor’s note by Luwezi Kinshasa, LONDON–The massacre of a half-million communists between 1965 and 1966, the massive jailing and raping of women by Suharto’s Indonesian army, the illegal occupation of East Timor by the Jakarta regime that resulted in the killing of more than 180,000 people, almost a third of the population — are all […]

“There are a group of women that have been forgotten in this 2015 PNG National Womens Forum, women of whom 10, 000 plus are refugees from West Papua under Indonesian rule.” [ Visit Website ]

The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has criticised the Indonesian government’s breakup of demonstrations in West Papua last year, saying it breached international conventions on torture. [ Visit Website ]

Benny Wenda is a UK based peaceful freedom fighter, international lobbyist, exiled tribal chief and independence leader of West Papua. On Tuesday afternoon he gave a presentation at Rhodes University as part of his campaign to raise awareness about the situation in West Papua. [ Visit Website ]

A leading West Papuan independence activist has drawn a parallel between Indonesian treatment of convicted drug smugglers with that of West Papuans. Benny Wenda has taken note of a controversial photo of the police chief in Bali, posing with Andrew Chan, an Australian citizen about to be killed by the Indonesian soldiers around him, on […]