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Category: Human Rights
UK Government reaffirms support for UN visit to West Papua
April 4, 2025
The British government restated its commitment to a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights visit to West Papua on Tuesday 2nd April, after being questioned over its 2024 critical minerals agreement with Indonesia. The Oral Question was asked by Alex Sobel, MP for Leeds Central and Headingley and Chair of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP). […]
ULMWP & FLNKS hold historic meeting in European Parliament
March 27, 2025
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) and Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) held a momentous meeting today in the European Parliament, bringing their shared struggle against foreign occupation to the heart of Europe. The meeting, entitled ‘Anti-Colonial Struggle in the Pacific’, was hosted by Basque Country MEP Pernando Barrena (EH Bildu, The Left). […]
Boycott Indonesia campaign launches in London, UK
March 25, 2025
The Boycott Indonesia campaign officially launched in London on the 20th March. Speaking at the event were Benny Wenda (ULMWP Interim President), activist Peter Tatchell, Tim Hansen (ULMWP Legal Advisor), David Whyte (Queen Mary University), with music from the Lani Singers. More than ninety West Papuan tribes, political organisations, religious and political groups have called […]
Interim President: Immediate release the twelve activists arrested for supporting Boycott Indonesia campaign
March 18, 2025
Twelve West Papuan activists from the West Papua People’s Liberation Movement (GR-PWP) have been arrested for handing out pamphlets supporting the new Boycott Indonesia campaign. The GR-PWP activists were arrested in Sentani and taken to Jayapura police station this morning (18th March 2025). They remain in the custody of the brutal Indonesian Police. Their names and details are as […]
Benny Wenda: Interim President: Prabowo reviving Suharto’s New Order in West Papua
February 28, 2025
Indonesia is now waking up to what I said after Prabowo Subianto was elected last year: that the ghost of Suharto has returned. The New Order dictatorship was buried twenty-five years ago, but under Prabowo’s rule it is being reborn. He is filling political posts with military figures, is sending his cabinet to army boot camps, and has reactivated the dual […]
Interim President: The ULMWP says no to dialogue with Indonesia
February 5, 2025
Dialogue with Indonesia is not the answer for West Papua. The ULMWP has a clear stance on the question of dialogue: not until self-determination is on the table. West Papua is a colonised nation, not a province of Indonesia. We will not become another Aceh. The only long-term solution is for us to be allowed a genuine […]
Interim President: Is Indonesia again using chemical weapons in West Papua?
January 30, 2025
Indonesia may have again used the chemical weapon White Phosphorus on indigenous West Papuans in Kiwirok. I am calling for an urgent international investigation into these very serious allegations. The evidence of chemical weapon use was gathered by the media outlet Paradise Broadcasting in their new film Frontier War. In the film, West Papuan civilians give […]
Free West Papua Chair Benny Wenda’s Christmas Address
December 19, 2024
On behalf of the ULMWP and the people of West Papua, I would like to wish all our supporters around the world a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I hope that all our solidarity groups, parliamentary allies, friendly diplomatic missions, and civil society supporters will continue to stand up for West Papua in […]
Benny Wenda: Mass displacements in West Papua show Prabowo’s true face
December 16, 2024
A massive wave of forced displacement is happening in West Papua, as Indonesia ramps up its military operations ahead of Christmas. In multiple regencies, including Yahukimo, Maybrat, and Intan Jaya, thousands of West Papuans have been forced to flee into the bush by the sudden arrival of Indonesian soldiers into their villages. The entire region of Oksop […]
Benny Wenda: The Permanent People’s Tribunal proves that West Papua needs freedom
December 9, 2024
As Interim President of the ULMWP, I welcome the release of the judgment of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) on West Papua. After testimonies from West Papuans on the ground and legal and academic experts, the PPT found Indonesia guilty on all four counts: This judgment is a total vindication of everything the West Papuan liberation movement […]