News Stories
Category: Human Rights
Interim President: Two Papuans killed as ULMWP commemorates OPM declaration
June 30, 2026
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 […]
Interim President: Indonesian drone attacks killing West Papuan women and children
June 25, 2026
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 […]
Interim President: Expel Indonesia from MSG after two West Papuans killed in drone attacks
June 9, 2026
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 […]
Interim President: Indonesia has kidnapped Pesta Babi star to hide ecocide
June 2, 2026
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 […]
Interim President Wenda: Indonesia should be expelled from MSG and PIF for killing Melanesians
May 19, 2026
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 […]
Interim President: Genocide continues as Indonesia massacres ten West Papuans
May 11, 2026
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, […]
President Wenda: Stop Indonesia’s crackdown on peaceful protest
April 28, 2026
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. […]
Hearing in Dutch Parliament on humanitarian situation in West Papua
April 22, 2026
A Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on West Papua was held in the Dutch Parliament yesterday (21st April 2026). Held in the Parliament of West Papua’s former coloniser, the hearing focused on the current situation in West Papua, the Indonesia–EU Free Trade Agreement, and the ongoing demand for a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit […]
President Wenda: At least nine killed as Indonesia commits new massacre in Puncak
April 16, 2026
Indonesia’s campaign of colonial destruction in the West Papuan highlands is intensifying. Only weeks after the brutal massacre in Dogiyai, the Indonesian military has attacked a refugee camp in Kembru, Puncak Regency. Simultaneous operations were also carried out in the Sinak and Pogoma Districts, with terrified villagers bombarded by an array of modern weaponry. Puncak is under […]
Urgent: Multiple West Papuans massacred by Indonesian police in Dogiyai
April 1, 2026
Indonesian police committed another atrocity yesterday (31st March) in West Papua, murdering at least five Papuan civilians, including a minor, in a colonial rampage in Dogiyai Regency. The incident began at 9:50 a.m., when a police officer was killed in front of the Ebenezer Church in Moanemani village. It is not known who killed the officer, who […]