122,931 Displaced. Civilians Arrested. Villages Militarized. Yet West Papua Barely Makes the Headlines. jubi.id/pacnews/2026...

Two Papuan women washing sweet potatoes and vegetables in a village stream after working in their gardens. An explosive device, dropped from a military drone, exploded nearby. Not on a battlefield. Not in a military camp. In a village in West Papua. humanrightsmonitor.org/case/two-pap...

West Papua. Where forests become plantations, mountains become mines, and Indigenous land becomes a government project.

West Papua: Indigenous Papuans marched to defend their land, rights and future. The response was not dialogue, but violence. How much longer will this continue?

Unpacking West Papua: A Missing Investigation's Impact

A U.S. State Department human rights investigation into West Papua was conducted in 1995–96. State Department officials confirmed it. Declassified cables show widespread concern. Thirty years later, the interim and final reports remain missing.

122,931 Papuans displaced by military operations. West Papua. June 2026. Families forced from their homes. A humanitarian crisis the world barely sees.

Flying from Berlin to Amsterdam next week via Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen. BER → ARN → HEL → CPH → AMS In Business Class. Because somehow that’s cheaper than BER → CPH → AMS. Airline pricing remains one of humanity’s greatest mysteries.

Raja Ampat is sold as paradise. Luxury resorts. Dive boats. Instagram sunsets. Meanwhile, Papuans face displacement and repression, while parts of their homeland are quietly being sacrificed for nickel mining and the world's EV transition. The reefs are famous. The people are not.

What is really happening in West Papua? Foreign journalists are still largely shut out. Independent reporting is restricted. Meanwhile, carefully managed narratives dominate what the outside world gets to see. When access is controlled, the first casualty is the truth.

Hidden Owners, Hidden Deals, Vanishing Forests: The Secret Palm Oil Concessions of West Papua

Imagine swimming across a crocodile river just to get to school. For around 300 children in Papua New Guinea, that's normal.

People in Papua New Guinea Can Now Walk Where There Used To Be Open Sea

The Day the Ocean Turned to Stone: Papua New Guinea’s Floating Volcano Disaster

An article about militarisation, democracy and civil liberties under Prabowo. Missing: West Papua. One of Indonesia's most militarised regions remains largely absent from mainstream discussions about the country's democratic trajectory.

A new species of walking shark has just been discovered in Papua New Guinea. Not a fossil. Not a myth. A living shark that uses its fins to walk across the seafloor.

West Papua: Indonesia Urged to Halt Military Operations in Pyramid Village Before the Situation Escalates.

Travel article: pristine reefs, turquoise waters, untouched paradise. Missing: West Papua’s Raja Ampat has become a battleground over nickel mining, environmental destruction, and the cost of the global green transition.

West Papua: Prabowo Expands Papua Agriculture Program with Record Budget — Will Papuans Benefit?

West Papua, Freeport, a vanished US human rights report, and alleged FBI interference: new investigative book revisits the record.

Papuans Behind Bars 2025: 291 Arrested, 60 Subjected to Torture, 5 Dead West Papua

New Cambridge University Press article (16 June 2026): West Papuans between Transnationalism and Internationalism. West Papua's struggle extends far beyond its borders.

Raja Ampat: Saving the Planet by Destroying Paradise? Nickel mining for electric vehicles is threatening Raja Ampat's reefs, indigenous lands, and communities in West Papua. #WestPapua

West Papua: one of the world's least reported conflicts. 🎬 Pesta Babi: Colonialism in Our Time A powerful documentary on colonialism, indigenous resistance, and environmental destruction. 📍 Adelaide 🕕 20 June, 6 PM Free tickets: events.humanitix.com/pesta-babi-c...

GRAPHIC CONTENT Shot the Student. Burned the Village. A West Papuan high school student was reportedly shot and homes were burned during a military operation in Yahukimo, West Papua. Silence enables impunity. humanrightsmonitor.org/case/student...

Dreaming? But you forgot to mention that Raja Ampat is also in the middle of a conflict over nickel mining, deforestation and environmental damage. Funny how the turquoise water always makes it into the picture, but the excavators never do. West Papua

Viral Papua documentary forces Indonesia to confront what it tried to hide: A documentary about indigenous land dispossession and military violence in West Papua has been watched more than 13.6 million times on YouTube within days, after Indonesian authorities failed to suppress organized…

Indonesia. Militarism on the rise amid censorship over West Papua Duncan Graham reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/indonesia-militarism-on-the-rise-amid-censorship-over-west-papua/

This year’s holiday has finally been decided 🇫🇮 Imatra — a place that sounds like a Soviet family car built in 1962. And Kolari — where the railway reaches the Arctic, looks around, and says: “Nope. That’s far enough.” The train goes no further north. Which, naturally, makes me want to go there.

The world’s largest deforestation project is happening right now in West Papua. A documentary exposing it just exploded online with 13 million views. The forests are disappearing. The Indigenous people are still there. For now.

John Teddy Wakum of LBH Merauke on #PestaBabi documentary film: “There are certainly outside parties trying to divert the public attention from structural problems in South Papua to these individual matters” www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...

West Papua: Colonisation With Bulldozers Soldiers. Deforestation. Land grabs. Jakarta calls it a food estate.

Pig Feast / West Papua Now Journalists Are Receiving Death Threats

Pig Feast / West Papua: The Film They Tried to Stop

Pig Feast / West Papua The Most Controversial Film in Indonesia Right Now

VIDEO: Papua New Guinea: The Day the Sea Stopped Being Water An undersea volcano has buried the ocean beneath vast rafts of pumice, trapping communities and turning fishing grounds into fields of stone.

IDP UPDATE — West Papua 122,931 internally displaced people. Let that number sink in. That's not a town. That's not a village. That's an entire population forced from their homes by military operations and armed conflict. June 2026. Still happening. Still growing. Still largely ignored.

Portugal, Britain & The Netherlands www.thesoutheastasiadesk.com/p/pig-feast-... / West Papua

West Papua: The Dead Do Not Need Apologies. The Living Need Courage.

West Papua: The Unfinished Decolonisation of the Pacific

West Papua’s Forgotten Genocide Enters the Spotlight

West Papua: Rich in Resources. Poor in Justice. Students are warning about environmental exploitation in West Papua. Unfortunately, officials are not using their brains or their hearts. The land keeps giving. The forests keep disappearing. Indigenous communities keep paying the price.

West Papua: The Documentary Is Illegal. The Deforestation Isn't.

West Papua. Another dead Papuan girl. This time a suspected drone strike in Lanny Jaya. Different weapon. Same silence.

West Papua: When speaking out gets you branded a foreign agent

West Papua Knew How to Protect the Ocean 400 Years Ago

Over West Papua, het voormalig Nederlands Nieuw Guinea leren we op school vrijwel niets, terwijl Nederland er een belangrijke historische rol speelde. Dat moet veranderen. Teken de petitie.

West Papua: Rising Militarism Behind a Wall of Silence

A documentary about West Papua’s disappearing forests was supposed to expose a crisis. Now one of its own subjects has filed a police complaint against the director. In West Papua, the story rarely ends when the credits roll.

Indonesia. Where do we start? Thier genocide for ecocide in West Papua? Thier 20 000 troops in Gaza as the corrupt are on Trumps Bored of Peace. Indonesia. More worrisome than China.