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February 5, 2026
Pacific Media Watch A new Pacific Media research publication and outlet for academics and community advocates has now been added to the Informit database for researchers. Two editions of the new journal, published by the Aotearoa-based independent Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) and following the traditions of Pacific Journalism Review, have been included in the ... <a title="Pacific Media journal research added to Informit global database" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/pacific-media-journal-research-added-to-informit-global-database/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media journal research added to Informit global database">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2026
Asia Pacific Report A two-day West Papua Solidarity Forum and mini film festival is being held in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau next month featuring West Papuan and local academics, advocates and journalists. Hosted by West Papua Action Tamaki and West Papua Action Aotearoa, keynote speeches, panels and discussion on the opening day, March 7, will focus ... <a title="West Papua Solidarity Forum, mini film festival aim to educate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/04/west-papua-solidarity-forum-mini-film-festival-aim-to-educate/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua Solidarity Forum, mini film festival aim to educate">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2026
COMMENTARY: By John Menadue Western leaders defend the rules-based international order when it suits them, but remain largely silent as those same rules are breached by the United States and Israel. The result is a system that shields the powerful and abandons the vulnerable — most starkly in Palestine. The white men and a few ... <a title="Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/01/greenland-and-western-hypocrisy-over-the-rules-based-international-order/" aria-label="Read more about Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The logbook of presidential flights in Indonesia reveals an unusual pattern — from the Merdeka Palace to the Land of the Bird of Paradise. By 2023, then President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had set foot in Papua at least 17 times — a record in the republic’s history, surpassing the ... <a title="Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/jakarta-at-crossroads-can-president-prabowo-connect-with-papuan-hearts/" aria-label="Read more about Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2026
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan advocacy group has condemned Indonesia over taking up the presidency of the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying it was “totally unfit” and the choice “makes a mockery” of the office. Indonesia was the sole candidate for the Asia-Pacific bloc at the council (HRC), which also includes China, Japan ... <a title="Indonesia accused of being ‘unfit’ for UN rights council presidency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/13/indonesia-accused-of-being-unfit-for-un-rights-council-presidency/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia accused of being ‘unfit’ for UN rights council presidency">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the Republic, writes Laurens Ikinia. COMMENTARY: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The island of Papua is a land of profound paradox. Beneath its ancient, cathedral-like forests and ... <a title="Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/papua-in-the-pacific-mirror-a-path-to-recognition-and-reconciliation/" aria-label="Read more about Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation">Read more</a>
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January 7, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea’s largest resource development has reached a milestone more than a decade in the making. The PNG Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project has fully retired its bank-financed project debt, closing one of the most complex financing arrangements in the country’s economic history. The debt, ... <a title="Papua New Guinea fully retires debt for Liquefied Natural Gas project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/07/papua-new-guinea-fully-retires-debt-for-liquefied-natural-gas-project/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea fully retires debt for Liquefied Natural Gas project">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
As activist groups around the world observe December 1 — flag-raising “independence” day for West Papua today marking when the Morning Star flag was flown in 1961 for the first time — Kristo Langker reports from the Highlands about how the Indonesian military is raising the stakes. SPECIAL REPORT: By Kristo Langker in Kiwirok, West ... <a title="West Papuan liberation fighters risk ‘extermination’ by Indonesia’s high-tech forces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/west-papuan-liberation-fighters-risk-extermination-by-indonesias-high-tech-forces/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan liberation fighters risk ‘extermination’ by Indonesia’s high-tech forces">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific reporter Four Papuan political prisoners have been sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment on treason charges. But a West Papua independence advocate says Indonesia is using its law to silence opposition. In April this year, letters were delivered to government institutions in Sorong West Papua, asking for peaceful dialogue between Indonesia’s ... <a title="Four Papuan activists jailed on treason charges – NZ advocate says ‘abuse of law’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/four-papuan-activists-jailed-on-treason-charges-nz-advocate-says-abuse-of-law/" aria-label="Read more about Four Papuan activists jailed on treason charges – NZ advocate says ‘abuse of law’">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The global civil society alliance Civicus has called on eight Pacific governments to do more to respect civic freedoms and strengthen institutions to protect these rights. It is especially concerned over the threats to press freedom, the use of laws to criminalise online expression, and failure to establish national human rights institutions ... <a title="Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/civicus-raps-8-pacific-countries-for-not-doing-enough-to-protect-civic-rights-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2025
TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81. He was a passionate advocate for journalism who changed many lives with his extraordinary kindness and generosity coupled with wisdom, experience and an uncanny ability to make things happen. Howarth worked ... <a title="‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/25/father-of-timor-post-why-asia-pacific-media-legend-bob-howarths-legacy-will-live-on/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
While Indonesians worry about President Prabowo Subianto’s undemocratic moves, the failures of his flagship “breakfast” policy, and a faltering economy, Australia enters into another “treaty” of little import. Duncan Graham reports. COMMENTARY: By Duncan Graham Under-reported in the Australian and New Zealand media, Indonesia has been gripped by protests this year, some of them violent. ... <a title="Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/canberra-pandering-to-prabowo-while-ignoring-unrest-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua">Read more</a>
