
“Why did Amungme elders put border markers all the way around the Ertzberg mountain of ore in 1967 during the exploration phase? Because that was a sacred area. Indonesian law considers the deep jungle to be empty, to have no…
“Why did Amungme elders put border markers all the way around the Ertzberg mountain of ore in 1967 during the exploration phase? Because that was a sacred area. Indonesian law considers the deep jungle to be empty, to have no…
On 8 December 2016, six students from Melbourne, Monash and Deakin Universities debated West Papua’s status as an independent state. The exhibition debate was hosted by the Federal Republic of West Papua (FRWP) in the Australia Catholic University during the Sampari…
“No justice, No peace, No autonomy in West Papua” Jacob Rumbiak hosted a press conference for Rev. Peter Woods, an Anglican priest and former missionary, who had just returned from the Birds Head region in West Papua. Peter’s main message…
WEST PAPUA—A JOURNEY TO FREEDOM encapsulates the political activism of Herman Wainggai, West Papuan independence leader and mentor of the non-violent students movement in West Papua, as he journeys from Melbourne, Australia, to an isolated refugee camp on the north…
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) is an intergovernmental sub-regional forum set up in 1988 by Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea to spearhead regional interests of common interest, including the political independence of West Papua and the Kanak in…