Earlier this week the Australia West Papua Association called for Canberra to press Jakarta over the arrests in the city of Nabire of about 150 Papuans, mostly members of the pro-independence West Papua National Committee, or KNPB.
But a statement from the Indonesian Embassy in Wellington says these arrests did not happen.
It says only one KNPB sympathiser was arrested on July 1st and released the next day.
The statement says two other Papuans were detained on 2 July and held for questioning.
