Below is the full version of the speech that ULMWP Interim President Benny Wenda gave at Oxford Town Hall on December 1, 2025 ...

In the 1960s Indonesia laid claim to West Papua. Despite efforts to control the West Papuan people, it has failed on all aspects of doing so. Indonesia uniliterally annexed the former Dutch colony in ...

December 1st marked the 64th anniversary of West Papua’s original Independence Day in 1961. The Morning Star was raised in ...

As Indonesian forces continue their manhunt for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by Papuan resistance fighters in February, the chances of his peaceful release are growing slimmer – and the ...

Apart from the brutality it undergirds, almost always fuelling violence, there’s something truly unhinged about political disinformation, especially in Indonesian-occupied West Papua because it’s so ...

Damien Kingsbury has advised a number of separatist organisations on negotiations to end conflict, most notably in Aceh in 2005. New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has now been held hostage in West ...

The first Free West Papua campaign office in Australia was opened in April in Perth, signalling the growing international campaign for West Papuan self-determination. West Papua has been occupied by ...

Prabowo Subianto first made his name as an Indonesian military leader trying to crush East Timor’s push for independence. Today he is president — and his government is fighting another colonial war in ...

The Indonesian-occupied nation of West Papua has called for urgent international intervention against Indonesia’s intensification of what a 2016 report called “slow motion genocide.” West Papua is ...

Indonesian authorities are pushing for two French journalists arrested in West Papua to face trial and up to 20 years jail. Valentine Bourrat and Thomas Dandois, journalists working for French media ...

The people of West Papua have been calling for self-determination for half a century – a struggle for liberation from an Indonesian military occupation that has seen as many as 500,000 Papuans killed.

West Papua occupies the Indonesian half of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world after Greenland. Indonesia unilaterally annexed the former Dutch colony in 1969 with the United Nations ...