MIL-Evening Report: Bernhard Marjen: West Papuan journalist and ex-policeman
Bernhard Marjen’s funeral earlier this month. Image: Sincha Dimara/My Land, My Country blog OBITUARY: By Sincha Damara in Port Moresby Bernhard Marjen was born in 1955 in Sorido, a village on the island of Biak on the West Papua side of the border with Papua New Guinea. His father was a radio broadcaster, they moved […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Kontras urges Jokowi to resolve Papuan Wasior human rights case
Dozens of youth and students hold a candlelit protest in front of the Diponegoro University campus, Semarang, in 2013 over the human rights abuses that occurred in Wasior and Wamena in 2001. Image: PY/WPAN By Karina M. Tehusijarana in Jakarta Indonesia’s Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has urged President Joko “Jokowi” […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: New military counter-terrorism unit arrests 5 West Papuans, says Jubi
The Joint Special Operations Command (Koopssusgab), a joint military counter-terrorism unit, was reportedly involved n the arrests. Graphic: Tabloid Jubi By Victor Mambor in Jayapura Five civilians in Timika have reportedly been arrested by the newly reactivated military counter-terrorism unit for “aspiring” to West Papuan independence. “At 10pm on Saturday June 9, Orpa Wanjomal (40) […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Green co-leader slams human rights ‘obscenity’ over West Papua
Green Party co-leader … “We are standing in solidarity with women leaders of indigenous movements around the world and around the Pacific.” Image: Rahul Bhattarai/PMC By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson last night condemned the “obscenity” of jailing West Papuans by Indonesian authorities for raising their Morning Star flag of independence. […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: O’Neill ‘undermining’ Bougainville peace deal, vote plan, says Miriori
The trailer for New Zealand documentary maker Will Watson’s forthcoming documentary about the Bougainville peace process, Soldiers Without Guns. Video: Boosted Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A Bougainvillean leader has accused Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill of “undermining” the island’s 17-year-old peace agreement and the independence vote due next year. Martin Miriori also condemned […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel
BOOK REVIEW: By Bambang Muryanto in Yogyakarta A Dutch freelance journalist, Rohan (a pen name), had been interested in the political turmoil in Papua for years. In 2015, his application for a journalistic visa was denied. The 32-year-old then decided to embark on an undercover reporting assignment in the country’s easternmost province. For 153 days, […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: PMC director condemns ‘targeting’ of journalists and silence on West Papua
class=”td-post-featured-image”> By Jean Bell in Auckland An alarming number of “targeted” journalists being killed and West Papua media for independence were just some of the topics covered in wide-ranging seminar by the director of the Pacific Media Centre last night. Professor David Robie called for the media, universities and journalism schools to take their Pacific […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Free media week killings underscore crimes impunity against journalists
class=”td-post-featured-image”> The media freedom monitoring group Reporters Without Borders details how it has trained journalists in Afghanistan to be aware of double suicide bomb attacks. Video: Euronews BRIEFING: By David Robie Monday – just three days before today’s World Press Freedom Day – was the deadliest day for news media in Afghanistan in 17 years. […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Greenpeace blasts palm oil industry deforestation in West Papua
class=”td-post-featured-image”> readability=”38″> One of the massive deforestation areas in the PT Megakarya Jaya Raya concession in Papua, Indonesia. Other images show a lunar-like devastation over huge areas. Image: Greenpeace International readability=”169.61647830842″> Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A palm oil supplier to Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever is destroying rainforests in the Indonesian-ruled Papua region, a new […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Pacific research strategies get airing on PMC’s Southern Cross radio
class=”td-post-featured-image”> readability=”38″> Pacific Media Centre journalist and digital media student with NZ Institute for Pacific Research operations manager Evelyn Masters at University of Auckland’s Radio 95bFM today. Image: David Robie/PMC readability=”66.617283950617″> Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Operations manager of the NZ Institute for Pacific Research, Dr Evelyn Masters, presented an introduction to regional initiatives and a […]
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