A video of a New Zealand pilot captured by members of the West Papua Liberation Army surfaced Tuesday along with a heartbreaking message to his family. Philip Mark Mehrtens, 38, has been living in a ...

Gunmen stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot shortly after it landed in Indonesia’s restive Papua region on Monday, and they released two health workers and two children it was ...

In these image released by Indonesian Police, Bayu Suseno, spokesperson for the Cartenz 2024 Peace Task Force, holds portrait of Glen Malcolm Conning, a pilot for Indonesian aviation company PT Intan ...

The patterns of genocide, or the various ways humans go about killing large groups of other humans and their attempted justifications for doing so, are so sadly predictable or systematised that, in ...

Militant rebels in Indonesia’s restive West Papua are urging their most feared comrade to release a New Zealand pilot held hostage for a year. A group of armed fighters led by tribal warlord Eganius ...

In this image released by Indonesian Police, Bayu Suseno, spokesperson for the Cartenz 2024 Peace Task Force, holds a portrait of Glen Malcolm Conning, a pilot for Indonesian aviation company PT Intan ...

The original version of this post was written by Girard Lopez and published in New Bloom on April 16, 2023. The following edited version is published on Global Voices under a content partnership ...

Budi Hernawan said it ten years ago: “torture in Papua … has become a mode of governance.” It hasn’t stopped. It’s got worse. It’s got worse precisely because it’s a mode of governance accepted and ...