In September 2024, Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and returned to his native New Zealand. Mehrtens’s kidnapping ...

Militant rebels in Indonesia’s restive West Papua are urging their most feared comrade to release New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who’s been held hostage for a year.

As Albanese jets to Jakarta, there are calls for him to confront an 'oppressor' Human Rights Monitor says at least 13 people have been killed in West Papua in the past six months as tensions ...

West Papua is represented by an organisation — the ULMWP — with the Indonesian government reaffirming that the region remains an integral part of Indonesia. In 2023, ...

The West Papuan National Liberation Army says that it will shoot Philip Mehrtens if the Indonesian government does not agree to independence talks within two months. By Sebastian Strangio May 29, 2023 ...

Militant rebels in Indonesia’s restive West Papua are urging their most feared comrade to release New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who’s been held hostage for a year.