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

Mehrtens spoke at a press conference in Timika, Indonesia thanking those who freed him and saying he was “very happy” to go ...

Very little about West Papua reaches the outside world because Indonesia tightly controls access for foreign journalists and human rights monitors. New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens was ...

Phillip Mehrtens was recently released alive after more than a year ... But it didn’t mean the conflict in West Papua simply ...

Phillip Mehrtens was taken hostage in 2023 when he landed a small commercial plane in the remote, "restive" region of Papua, a "resource-rich former Dutch colony" that is part of modern-day ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region of Indonesia was freed Saturday by separatist rebels. Phillip Mark Mehrtens ...

Phillip Mark Mehrtens, the pilot from Christchurch who ... up by the Indonesian government to deal with separatist groups in Papua, after separatist rebels let him walk free early Saturday ...

Video: New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens held hostage by West Papuan ... He was held by armed separatists in Indonesia's Papua but was freed by a ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region of Indonesia was freed Saturday by separatist rebels. Phillip Mark Mehrtens ...

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed after more than 18 months in captivity in Indonesia’s restive Papua region, according to a statement from Wellington’s foreign minister on Saturday.