A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region of Indonesia has been freed by separatist ...

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed from more than 18 months in captivity in Indonesia’s Papua, the Indonesian ...

Rebeldes separatistas en la agitada región de Papúa en Indonesia liberaron el sábado a un piloto neozelandés al que ...

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed more than 19 months after being kidnapped by armed separatists in Indonesia ...

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

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

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

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

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

PT Global Papua Abadi’s sugarcane concession in Merauke, South Papua, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Pusaka Foundation. The rest of the land that’s been cleared for the sugarcane project is ...

I am very happy that shortly I will be able to go home,' says Phillip Mehrtens.

KEEROM, Papua: Playing together at home with his two cousins of roughly the same age, four-year-old Berto stands out. Unlike his cousins - who appeared cheerful and playful with one another ...