CANBERRA, SATUHARAPAN.COM – Untuk pertama kalinya seorang warga negara Australia berlatar belakang suku asli, Aborigin, dilantik menjadi menteri pemerintah federal bulan lalu. Namanya Ken Wyatt. Ia menjadi menteri federal untuk urusan usia lanjut dan kesehatan penduduk pribumi. Dia seorang pendukung…
PIReport – By Jasmine Stole and Jerick Sablan HAGÅTÑA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, March 8, 2017) – The law limiting Guam’s self-determination plebiscite to people considered native inhabitants is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The plebiscite law imposes race-based restrictions…
PIReport – By Jasmine Stole and Jerick Sablan HAGÅTÑA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, March 8, 2017) – The law limiting Guam’s self-determination plebiscite to people considered native inhabitants is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The plebiscite law imposes race-based restrictions…
Source: AAP, SBS News Seven Pacific island nations have called for a UN investigation into allegations of human rights abuses in Indonesia’s West Papua and Papua provinces, where a separatist movement has simmered for decades. A statement to a session of…
Elaine Pearson, Support of Indonesian sovereignty over Papua does not mean shying away from scrutiny of abuses As Indonesia’s president, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, touches down in Australia for the first time since assuming the presidency, will human rights feature at…
Defence officers have caught an Indonesian boat carrying illegal firearms into Vanimo, West Sepik Province. Pictures of the weapons supplied by a MiRpota in Vanimo showed what appeared to be a homemade weapon. They were found in the possession of…
By PMC Editor – asiapacificreport While abroad for a study exchange year in Melbourne, Connor Woodman discovered that Indonesia’s effort to thwart the independence movement of its troubled Papuan provinces spreads all the way to Australia’s urban heartlands. Occupied by Indonesia since 1963, the…
By Stefan Armbruster, SBS Australia Australia’s nearest Pacific neighbours have taken the lead in trying to broker a peaceful future for Indonesia’s contested West Papuan provinces. Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia’s FLNKS took the step at…
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has sharply criticised Australia for planning to set up a diplomatic post in PNG’s breakaway province of Bougainville without consulting his government. But Foreign Minister Julie Bishop insists Australia’s high commissioner did provide…
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has sharply criticised Australia for planning to set up a diplomatic post in PNG’s breakaway province of Bougainville without consulting his government. But Foreign Minister Julie Bishop insists Australia’s high commissioner did provide…