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Why you will never hear an Australian leader call out Indonesia on West Papua

Australia is willing to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in West Papua because alienating Indonesia is not worth the risk as China jostles for regional influence

The Guardian - AU

‘The kids had all been tortured’: Indonesian military accused of targeting children in West Papua

Exclusive: Australia is seeking to strengthen ties with Indonesia, despite new reports of brutality by the military — including the torture and murder of civilians — in West Papua

The Guardian - AU

I was involved in talks to free a kidnapped Kiwi pilot in West Papua. With negotiations stalled, what happens now?

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has now been held hostage in West Papua for four months. Stalled attempts to negotiate his release, and an unsuccessful Indonesian military rescue attempt, suggest a confused picture behind the scenes.

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Afternoon Update: Fox News reportedly pushes to settle Dominion case; deadly violence in West Papua; and Victoria’s big infrastructure pause

The high-profile defamation case has been rescheduled amid reports it may not proceed

The Guardian - AU

The Week in Detail: West Papua, forestry slash, and light pollution

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Newsroom.co.nz

The pilot, the rebels and West Papua's independence struggle

How did a Kiwi pilot get caught up in a rebel group's demands for West Papua's independence from Indonesia?

Newsroom.co.nz

The NZ pilot held hostage in West Papua is the pawn in a conflict only real international engagement can resolve

“Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is – no one ever had anything bad to say about him”, says a colleague of the New Zealand pilot taken hostage this week by members of the West Papuan Liberation Army (TPN-PB) in the mountainous Nduga Regency.

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West Papuan separatist group makes demands to Australia, New Zealand after kidnapping Kiwi pilot Philip Mehrtens, burning plane

A West Papuan separatist group is demanding Australia and New Zealand sever military ties with Indonesia after kidnapping a New Zealand pilot on Tuesday.

ABC News

Kidnapped New Zealand pilot ‘will be executed’, claim Papuan separatists, if independence negotiations fail

Philip Mehrtens, a Kiwi pilot, was kidnapped on Tuesday by insurrectionists from the West Papua National Liberation Army, considered a terrorist organisation by Jakarta.

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Reef manta rays are in decline globally – but new research finds one place in Indonesia where these charismatic rays are thriving

Raja Ampat archipelago in West Papua is home to Indonesia’s largest population of reef manta rays, Mobula alfredi. They are not mammals, but cartilaginous fish that are related to sharks.

The Conversation

Filep Karma: West Papuan independence campaigner found dead on beach

Friends of twice jailed human rights activist call for independent inquiry after body found in damaged wetsuit at Base G beach, Jayapura

The Guardian - AU

Australia committed to military cooperation with Indonesia

Country seen as an ‘important partner’ in a region where China is becoming increasingly assertive.

Al Jazeera

Rebels shoot four dead in Indonesia's West Papua: police

Timika (Indonesia) (AFP) - Separatists in Indonesia's restive eastern province of West Papua have shot dead at least four people, police said Friday, identifying the victims as construction workers on a controversial and long-delayed road project.

AFP

Four shot dead in Indonesia's restive Papua region-police

Four people were shot and killed by an armed rebel group in Indonesia's restive West Papua province, the latest in a string of attacks on civilians, police said on Friday.

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Strong earthquakes jolt parts of Indonesia’s West Papua province

At least four land-based earthquakes of between 6.2 and 5.5 magnitudes were recorded, though no damage was reported.

Daily Mirror

Man's body cut out from inside giant 13ft crocodile's stomach after being eaten

Locals in Teluk Bintuni, in the West Papua province of Indonesia, hunted the 13ft-long killer crocodile after it killed construction worker Yeniman Bernard

Newsroom.co.nz

Timber millions eyed in rainforest felling

A court filing reveals lucrative timber exports were a strong focus of forest-clearing by a part-Kiwi-owned firm operating in an area with substantial tropical rainforest in West Papua

ABC News

West Papuan students' dreams dashed after scholarships suddenly cancelled

More than 140 Indigenous Western Papuan students in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States have had their government scholarships terminated without warning.

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Truck carrying miners in Indonesia flips over, killing 18

An overloaded truck carrying 29 people on Wednesday flipped over in Indonesia's West Papua province, killing 18 passengers including a toddler, local authorities said.

AFP

Indonesia truck careens into cliff, killing 16

Jakarta (AFP) - At least 16 people were killed and more than a dozen others injured when a truck descending a remote mountain in Indonesia's West Papua province crashed into a cliff on Wednesday, police said.

The Independent UK

17 dead in overloaded truck crash in Indonesia's West Papua

An overloaded truck carrying 29 people hit a cliff and flipped over near an illegal gold mine in Indonesia’s West Papua province on Wednesday

ABC News

West Papuan women 'can't keep silent' about the 'torture, inhumane killing' in their country

On the streets of Perth, 4,000 kilometres from PNG, Wiwince Pigome raises the Morning Star flag — in doing so, she renews a decades-long push for independence from Indonesia.

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Indonesia cuts off funding for Papuan students in New Zealand

The association representing international students from the West Papuan provinces of Indonesia have clapped back, saying the move is an “assassination of human resources”

AFP

11 arrested after deadly West Papua nightclub fight

Sorong (Indonesia) (AFP) - Eleven people have been arrested after a deadly clash at a nightclub in Indonesia's easternmost region, police said on Saturday.

AFP

At least 19 dead after clash, fire at club in Indonesia's West Papua

Sorong (Indonesia) (AFP) - At least 19 people have been killed in a clash at a nightclub in Indonesia's West Papua province, police said Tuesday, with most dying after the venue caught fire.

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