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

At least one Indonesian soldier has been killed in a rebel attack while searching for a kidnapped New Zealand ... of a detachment sent to locate Phillip Mehrtens, who was taken hostage in February.

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed after ... An armed faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army ...

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 ...

Philip Mehrtens was kidnapped by West Papua National Liberation Army fighters in February 2023 and was released after lengthy negotiations into the care of Indonesian officials on Saturday.

Phillip Mark Mehrtens ... Air and in recent years lived in Bali with his family. Age 37 when he was kidnapped, Mehrtens was originally from the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, and trained ...

Philip Mehrtens was abducted by rebel group TPNPB ... lead a previous hostage taking in West Papua in 1996. where TPNPB kidnapped 26 members of a World Wildlife Fund research mission in Mapenduma.

Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane on a small runway in Paro and abducted Philip Mark Mehrtens on Feb. 7 ...

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed more than 19 months after being kidnapped by armed separatists in Indonesia's Papua, authorities said on Saturday. Mr Mehrtens was freed and picked up ...

He said there were "similarities with the 1996 kidnapping and the Philip Mehrtens hostage-taking." He added Kogoya's father helped lead a previous hostage taking in West Papua in 1996. where TPNPB ...

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed after more than 18 ... An armed faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) kidnapped Mehrtens on February 7, 2023, after he landed a ...