Pacific Islands Forum Archives - United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP)

August 30, 2024 President Wenda: Welcome new Pacific Islands Forum call for a UN visit

As President of the ULMWP and on behalf of the people of West Papua, I...

July 12, 2022 Interim President: Pacific Islands Forum must urge Indonesia to allow UN access to West Papua

On behalf of the Provisional Government and people of West Papua, I would like to...

April 22, 2022 News: Pacific Elders call for UN visit to West Papua

The Pacific Elders’ Voice (PEV), comprising former heads of state, US congresspersons and regional figures,...

January 2, 2020 ULMWP Chair: New Year’s message to the people of West Papua

Last year was both terrible and good for the people of West Papua. We continued...

December 24, 2019 ULMWP Chairman’s Christmas message to the people of West Papua

Twenty-nineteen has been the worst year on record for the people of West Papua. They...

September 24, 2019 ULMWP Chair: Urgent United Nations and Pacific Islands Forum intervention needed to prevent more massacres in West Papua

[Bahasa translation below] Twenty-nineteen is becoming the worst year in nearly six decades of illegal...

August 21, 2019 Ketua ULMWP: Bergeraklah dan bersatulah melawan rasisme dan diskriminasi

SERUAN POLITIK Saya selaku Ketua Eksekutif dan pemimpian Bangsa Papua menyampaikan keprihatinan yang mendalam atas...

August 20, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: UN must visit West Papua following racist attacks

I, as Chair of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, express my deep concern...

August 18, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: Stop Indonesian repression of the people of West Papua

[Statement in Bahasa below.] Over the past three days, the people of West Papua have...

August 15, 2019 PRESS RELEASE: Brutal Indonesian police crack-down as West Papua issue pushed forward in PIF

Indonesian police have arrested over 140 West Papuans calling for Pacific leaders to make a...

August 10, 2019 Press Release – ULMWP Chairman welcomes call for United Nations Human Rights Mission to West Papua

The Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Benny Wenda has welcomed...

August 10, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: Don’t celebrate Indonesian independence – we are mourning for Nduga

[Translation into Bahasa below.] I, as Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua,...

July 3, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: We are ready to peacefully reclaim our country from Indonesian colonialism

The ULMWP, with the support of the West Papuan people, is ready to peacefully reclaim...

September 11, 2018 Mass arrests are bullying tactics – Indonesia’s position over West Papua is fraudulent

11th September 2018 From 3rd to 8th September, 104 West Papuan people were arrested by...

September 27, 2017 West Papuan People’s Petition signed by 1.8 million West Papuans handed to the UN by ULMWP

PRESS RELEASE Petition for West Papuan self-determination signed by 1.8 million West Papuans and handed...

September 5, 2017 ULMWP appeals to The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to support West Papuan self-determination

MEDIA STATEMENT ULMWP appeals to PIF to support West Papua On behalf...

September 26, 2016 A Historic Choice: West Papua, human rights and Pacific diplomacy at the Pacific Island Forum and Melanesian Spearhead Group

The West Papuan movement for freedom is growing. And a wave of support is building...