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March 6, 2019
Protesters march to the Papua governor’s office in Jayapura on Monday carrying a banner that reads ‘Dissolve and expel Jafar Umar Thalib and his group from Papua, because it is the land of the Gospel.’ Image: Benny Mawel/ucanews.com By Benny Mawel in Jayapura A radical Muslim cleric faces being kicked out of Papua after more ... <a title="Papuans call for expulsion of Ambon ‘jihadist army’ cleric over unrest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/papuans-call-for-expulsion-of-ambon-jihadist-army-cleric-over-unrest/" aria-label="Read more about Papuans call for expulsion of Ambon ‘jihadist army’ cleric over unrest">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2019
The University of Papua New Guinea …. staff shutdown in protest over government interference in ‘credible VC appointment process’. Image: PNG Indy ANALYSIS: By Stephen Howes The University of Papua New Guinea has for a long time been in need of far-reaching reform. But not all change is good, and what has happened this year ... <a title="UPNG shutdown crisis – the facts behind the turmoil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/upng-shutdown-crisis-the-facts-behind-the-turmoil/" aria-label="Read more about UPNG shutdown crisis – the facts behind the turmoil">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2019
Villagers welcome the WCC delegation in Kaliki village near Merauke in Papua province. Image: Jimmy Sormin/WCC A special mission from the World Council of Churches has criticised the ongoing human rights violations by Indonesian security forces in the West Papua region after its five-day visit to Indonesia last week and has called for “more openness” ... <a title="WCC mission criticises Papua rights violations in plea for ‘openness’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/28/wcc-mission-criticises-papua-rights-violations-in-plea-for-openness/" aria-label="Read more about WCC mission criticises Papua rights violations in plea for ‘openness’">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
By Yamin Kogoya in Canberra In the days leading up to Christmas, 16 Indonesian construction workers were killed in Nduga by the West Papuan National Liberation Army. Lukas Enembe, Governor of Papua, declared through media: “I am asking President Jokowi to withdraw all the troops in Nduga.” In response, Colonel Muhammad Aidi, the military spokesman ... <a title="Enembe – the Papuan traditional chief Indonesia regards as ‘dangerous’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/enembe-the-papuan-traditional-chief-indonesia-regards-as-dangerous/" aria-label="Read more about Enembe – the Papuan traditional chief Indonesia regards as ‘dangerous’">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2019
Spike Lee, who stormed out of the Oscars after Green Book won Best Picture at Sunday’s Oscars, likened the news to a “bad call” by the referee at a Knicks game. Video: Variety By Stuart Richards in Adelaide Every year it is the same story: the Academy comes so close to catching up with the ... <a title="#Oscars2019 play it safe with Green Book – nothing progressive here" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/26/oscars2019-play-it-safe-with-green-book-nothing-progressive-here/" aria-label="Read more about #Oscars2019 play it safe with Green Book – nothing progressive here">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2019
David Robie, Pacific Media Centre Monday, February 25, 2019 Abstract In 2016, the Pacific Media Centre responded to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston by initiating the Bearing Witness journalism project and dispatching two postgraduate students to Viti Levu to document and report on the impact of climate change ... <a title="Bearing Witness 2017: Year 2 of a Pacific climate change storytelling project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/25/bearing-witness-2017-year-2-of-a-pacific-climate-change-storytelling-project/" aria-label="Read more about Bearing Witness 2017: Year 2 of a Pacific climate change storytelling project">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2019
Papuan students among the elections protest marchers in Ambon, Indonesia. Image: Chen Toisuta/Gatra By Chen Toisuta in Ambon, Maluku Scores of students from the Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have called on the public to boycott or spoil votes in the legislative and presidential elections next month. ... <a title="Students call for Indonesian election boycott, alternative political force" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/25/students-call-for-indonesian-election-boycott-alternative-political-force/" aria-label="Read more about Students call for Indonesian election boycott, alternative political force">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2019
The python used to interrogate a Papuan suspect “was a pet snake that was not poisonous and tame”, claim Indonesian police. Image: CNNIndonesia Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Papua Regional Police public information head Assistant Superintendent Suryadi Diaz is asking all parties not to dramatise or make a big issue out of the use of a ... <a title="‘Not a big deal’ claim police, rejecting UN call for Papua snake investigation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/23/not-a-big-deal-claim-police-rejecting-un-call-for-papua-snake-investigation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Not a big deal’ claim police, rejecting UN call for Papua snake investigation">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2019
Indonesian military … cooperation with Australia is one of the biggest that the TNI enjoys with armies of other countries. Image: TribuneNews By Gita Irawan in Jakarta Indonesia’s Army Chief of Staff (Kasad) General Andika Perkasa and Australian Defence Force chief General Angus John Campbell have agreed to further increase military cooperation between the two ... <a title="Australia and Indonesia agree to step up military cooperation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/23/australia-and-indonesia-agree-to-step-up-military-cooperation/" aria-label="Read more about Australia and Indonesia agree to step up military cooperation">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2019
Australian mining entrepreneur accused of being “disrespectful” over a demand for wholesale and draconian changes to the mining law. Image: PNG Attitude/PC Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Landowners throughout Bougainville were today calling on President John Momis for protection from a “callous opportunist.” The landowners said that the customary laws of Bougainville and the basic human ... <a title="Bougainville landowners call on Momis for protection from ‘offensive’ draft law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/23/bougainville-landowners-call-on-momis-for-protection-from-offensive-draft-law/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville landowners call on Momis for protection from ‘offensive’ draft law">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2019
Heading on the book chapter on University of the South Pacific’s 50-year history. Shailendra Singh Friday, February 22, 2019 Abstract The Univerasity of the South Pacific’s 50th anniversary marks 30 years of existence for its regional journalism programme. In an eventful journey, the programme weathered military coups, overcame financial hardships and shrugged off academic snobbery ... <a title="Journalism at USP: A thirty-year journey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/22/journalism-at-usp-a-thirty-year-journey/" aria-label="Read more about Journalism at USP: A thirty-year journey">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2019
Indonesian police torture a pro-independence West Papuan suspect. Image: West Papua Campaign/AFP Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Free West Papua Campaign has welcomed the call by the United Nation’s human rights experts for “Prompt and impartial investigations … into numerous cases of alleged killings, unlawful arrests, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of indigenous Papuans ... <a title="West Papuan campaigners welcome UN call to halt Indonesian torture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/22/west-papuan-campaigners-welcome-un-call-to-halt-indonesian-torture/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan campaigners welcome UN call to halt Indonesian torture">Read more</a>