Campaign for a free and independent West Papua
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The Australian chapter of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) held its first public meeting on Monday 17th August at Parliament House in Canberra. This historic meeting, which took place on the same day as the 81st anniversary of Indonesia’s Independence Day, was hosted by Senator David Shoebridge, IPWP Vice Chair for Australia, and marks a […] The post Historic meeting brings…
As President of the ULMWP, I call on all West Papuans to boycott Indonesian Independence Day on August 17th. West Papua is a graveyard. If we celebrate Indonesian Independence Day, we dishonour the hundreds of thousands of West Papuans killed under Indonesian colonial rule. This includes more than fifty Papuan civilians who have been killed […] The post Interim President: Boycott Indonesian…
Following the killing of US pilot Nicholas Gosselin by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), more evidence has emerged that Indonesia is systematically and consistently using civilian aircraft and humanitarian organisations for military purposes in West Papua. A number of photos and videos release over the past weeks clearly show Indonesian civilian planes, like the PT AMA […] The post…
Today, we commemorate the 55th anniversary of the independence declaration of the OPM at Markas Victoria on July 1, 1971. This historic declaration, the second in the history of West Papua, was a critical moment in our struggle – a powerful rejection of Indonesian colonisation and the Act of No Choice that enabled it. As enshrined in our […] The post Interim President: Two Papuans killed as ULMWP…
Indonesia is again using drones to kill innocent West Papuan women and children. On 18 June 2026, two Papuan women, Otovina Hogajau and Aliana Pogau, were seriously injured by an Indonesian drone strike in Danggoa Village, Intan Jaya Regency. One later died from her wounds. These were village women, returning from collecting sweet potatoes in […] The post Interim President: Indonesian drone…
Indonesia’s campaign of terror in the West Papuan highlands continues, as two West Papuans – including an 18-year-old girl – have been murdered by TNI drone attacks in the past three weeks. The first attack took place in Sugapa, Intan Jaya Regency, on 17th May, as a drone-operated bomb exploded in the courtyard of the St. Paul […] The post Interim President: Expel Indonesia from MSG after two West…
Indonesia has kidnapped and threatened Mama Yasinta Moiwend (Mama Sinta), one of the Marind tribe featured in the documentary Pesta Babi, into denying the film and its message. Pesta Babi, which focuses on the Merauke sugarcane megaproject, reveals a simple fact: that Indonesia is destroying West Papua’s ancestral forest for profit. It is a moderate film, which […] The post Interim President:…
On behalf of the ULMWP and West Papuan people, I demand that Indonesia’s Associate Membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) and Dialogue Partner status in the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) are immediately revoked. After the massacres last week, the latest examples of the TNI’s colonial brutality took place in Timika and Intan Jaya, where soldiers planted bombs on the bodies […] The post…
Summary of events from May 1st to May 10th 2026: While the world looks away, genocide continues in West Papua. Indonesian security forces have committed a series of new mass killings over the past ten days, executing at least ten Papuans and shooting many more. According to on-the-ground reports from the TPNPB and humanitarian defenders, […] The post Interim President: Genocide continues as…
On behalf of the ULMWP and the West Papuan people, I demand that Indonesia cease their crackdown on peaceful protest in the wake of the massacres in Dogiyai and Puncak. The West Papua National Committee has organised numerous peaceful demonstrations against Indonesian colonialism since the military (TNI) murdered fifteen West Papuans in the Puncak massacre on April 15th. […] The post President…
