カテゴリー: Indonesia
Up to 7,000 West Papuans live in refugee villages, separated from their homeland by the wide, despoiled Fly RiverIt’s 35 years since Agapitus Kiku decided he didn’t want a future without freedom.As a young man he’d been pressed into a work gang, bristl…
Bambang Hero Saharjo has received death threats for testifying against companiesA scientist who takes on the companies responsible for massive wildfires across Indonesia has won the prestigious John Maddox prize for standing up for science in the face …
Member of religious council is publicly whipped in conservative Aceh regionAn Indonesian man working for an organisation that helped draft strict religious laws has been publicly whipped himself after he was caught having an affair with a married woman…
Advance copy of report says several factors were to blame for crash that killed 189 in IndonesiaThe final report by Indonesian investigators into the crash of a Boeing 737 Max plane flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air that left 189 people dead has found that…
Australia refuses to rule out handing over Sydney lawyer who advocates for West Papuans to Indonesia
Dfat says Interpol red notice for arrest of Veronica Koman is a matter for Australian federal policeThe Australian government has refused to rule out handing over a Sydney-based lawyer who advocates for West Papuans to Indonesian authorities.Veronica K…
Australia’s funding cuts force hundreds of homeless refugees to plead to be taken into immigration detentionOnce a military command post, the two-storey lime green building in Kalideres, West Jakarta, is now essentially a refugee camp.More than 400 ref…
Former Timor Leste president Xanana Gusmão hugs BJ Habibie, whose actions paved the way to independenceThe first president of Timor Leste has paid a touching visit to the bedside of the Indonesian president who granted the region a referendum on indepe…
Activists say Buchtar Tabuni, seen as a mastermind of recent protests, was forcibly taken into custody by armed troopsA West Papuan independence group has accused the Indonesian police of “abducting” a leading West Papuan activist in a dramatic arrest …
Indonesia environment minister says smog is also from fires in Malaysia and VietnamIndonesia has shot back at claims the country is solely responsible for the fires that have created a thick haze across parts of Malaysia this week and forced the closur…
Masked motorcycle riders pull up around 4am at East Java building that has been the target of protestsIndonesian police are investigating allegations of masked motorcycle riders throwing bags of snakes into a West Papuan student dormitory in Surabaya a…
Residents inhaling smoke from peat and trees burned hundreds of miles awayAn increase in Indonesian forest fires – the sharpest rise since 2015 – has infuriated neighbouring Malaysia, where residents are inhaling smoke from peat and trees burned hundre…
Fishermen report seeing ‘snouts in the dark’ on Malacca Strait, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanesA mystical Malaysian island is grappling with a “sea-borne invasion” of wild boar, which some believe are swimming kilometres across one of the wor…
Arrests come as Indonesian police ban demonstrations promoting separatismFour Australians who allegedly took part in a pro-independence demonstration in West Papua are being deported, Indonesian immigration authorities have said.The four Australians wi…
Three students believed killed in dormitories on Sunday, as video emerges of last week’s clashes in which soldiers fire on peaceful protestsThree West Papuan students have reportedly been killed in their dormitories by militia groups amid growing tensi…
At a pivotal moment in the region’s struggle for self-determination, there is seething anger as well as hopeAt the base of the verdant mountains of Sentani, where dense, tropical jungle overlooks a sprawling teal lake, worshippers stream into church, m…