Police Back Down At Freeport Picket Line
The Indonesian Police cancelled a plan to forcibly break up a blockade at Freeport’s Grasberg…More
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Australia Out In The Cold On Israel
Australia’s opposition to the Palestinians’ admission to UNESCO, the UN cultural organisation, shows why some…More
Greece Makes A Last Stand For Democracy
It’s a funny thing, democracy: often messy, always unpredictable. And so it is proving in…More
Violent Tactics Backfire In Papua
If the Indonesian police and military thought shooting live ammunition into a mass gathering of…More
Police To Break Freeport Strike
The Indonesian police plan to break the Freeport strike tomorrow, according to a letter obtained…More
What's Happened To The Eurozone?
It might have been the most notorious public exhortation to quieten down since Hugo Chávez…More
Indonesia Stands By Papua Crackdown
Last week, New Matilda published a breaking report on the violence at the Third People’s…More
Increased Pressure On Freeport Strikers
Workers at West Papua’s Grasberg mine have been in intense negotiations for wage increases with…More
It's Time To Take A Stand On Papua
Yesterday afternoon news reached my office that unarmed Papuans — women, young people, church leaders,…More
Six Dead, Many Injured And In Hiding
FOR THE MOST RECENT UPDATES GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. The Indonesian military…More