Mr Mehrtens sobbed while talking to his family via video and an Indonesian official tried to calm him down by patting his back.

his homeland in Northern Province. For decades since his coming of age with the former Office of Information in pre-independence Papua and New Guinea, Barnzo, as he was known, had grown into an ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region of Indonesia was freed ...

A task force spokesperson said that Phillip Mehrtens’ release was the result of hard work from a small task force team ...

Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a 38-year-old pilot from Christchurch, was working for Indonesian aviation company Susi Air when he ...

Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane ...

Papua was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 under a United Nations-sponsored ballot that was widely seen as a sham.

Indonesian authorities said Saturday the New Zealand pilot who’s been held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua ...

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His abduction reflected the deteriorating security situation in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua, a former Dutch colony in the western part of New Guinea that is ethnically ... a regency in ...

What started as a “relatively minor conflict between illegal miners” escalated into tribal warfare featuring high-powered ...