Reports from Papua in Indonesia say unidentified gunmen have shot at traffic outside Jayapura, killing a motorcyclist and injuring six others, including a nine-year child in a public bu

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Bringing down the high cost of living in Papua, which is paradoxically the country's least-developed province, is a key factor in boosting development ther

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Human Rights Watch on Monday lambasted the government for failing to prosecute five soldiers allegedly caught on tape torturing tw

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – A prominent international human rights group has agreed to advocate for the release of Filep Samuel Karma, a Papuan political prisoner who was jailed in 2005 for

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrived in Papua on Sunday to meet with the local administration on regional revenue and to open a national university student body conferen

Jakarta – Nine people have been arrested after an outlawed separatist flag was raised in Papua, police said on Sunday.

Indonesia – A series of conflicts sparked by a racist mobile phone ringtone will not affect a visit by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to Jayapura, Papua.

Jayapura, Papua – Security conditions in Jayapura, Papua, ahead of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY)'s visit on Sunday (Nov 21), are quite conducive, the region's military chief

Once again, the authorities are sitting on their hands rather than fulfilling their obligations and proactively identifying and prosecuting the soldiers responsible.

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Jakarta – The national human rights body says it would look into reports of human rights violations in Papua, adding that a recent military tribunal only paid lip service in the attempt

AWPA is calling on Julia Gillard to raise the threat to human rights defenders in West Papua with President Yudhoyono.

Jakarta – Rights activists have expressed disappointment over the Cenderawasih Regional Military Command (Kodam) military tribunal's verdict in the case of the Papuans that were torture

A US-based Papuan journalist and academic, Octo Mote, says the Indonesian Army's Special Forces unit, Kopassus, operates only under its own agenda in Papua.

Jakarta – US freelance journalist Allan Nairn claimed he got hold of a leaked document containing an intelligence report on the Indonesian Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) that showed a

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military chief has confirmed claims by a rights activist that the armed forces are actively carrying out intelligence gathering in Pap

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Three enlisted soldiers were sentenced to five months in prison on Thursday for their involvement in assaulting dozens of Puncak Jaya residents in March.

Banjir Ambarita & Nivell Rayda, Jayapura – A military tribunal on Thursday sentenced four soldiers filmed beating unarmed civilians to between five and seven months in prison, but h

Documents leaked from the Indonesian Army's Special Forces unit, Kopassus, have revealed that the group targets churches in Papua and defines civilian dissidents as the enemy.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Three Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers on trial for allegedly torturing Papuan civilians have testified they kicked and beat captives out of anger.

Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – Prosecutors at a military tribunal in Jayapura, Papua, on Tuesday sought three- to four-month prison terms for soldiers on trial for alleged abuses against 30

Freeport McMoRan copper and Gold should be closed down and the United States should be held responsible for crimes against humanity and against the environment in Papua.

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Tom Allard, Jakarta – A military trial into abuses by soldiers in Papua, trumpeted by Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as evidence of the country's commitment to human rig

Jakarta – United States President Barack Obama must challenge Indonesia over its abuse and torture of Papuan civilians during his talks in Jakarta this week, human rights activists said

Jayapura – The trial of five Indonesian soldiers from an infantry battalion stationed in the Nabire Regency, West Papua, for allegedly "committing acts of violence" against civilians wi

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The military has failed to say why it switched Friday's announced court-martial of five soldiers accused of torturing two detainees in Papua but has

The visit of United States President, Barack Hussein Obama in Indonesia must promote the problems of West Papua.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Activists condemned the military's decision to hold a tribunal in Jayapura on Friday over an alleged torture video, calling it "misleading" and "a farce"

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Human Rights Watch has lashed out at the Indonesian military, which it said had promised the trial of soldiers allegedly involved in the brutal torture of Pa

Nethy Darma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Four Army soldiers from an infantry battalion in the Papua regency of Nabire began their trial at the Jayapura military court on Friday in connectio

Tom Allard – A Papuan man depicted in a video being burnt, suffocated and hit by Indonesian troops says he was tortured for two days, according to his testimony recorded and translated

Nethy Dharma Somba and Erwida Maulia, Jayapura/Jakarta – Four soldiers allegedly involved in recorded torture of Papuans, where two videos released on YouTube sparked a global outcry, w

Nivell Rayda, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – Rights activists fear for the welfare of two Papuans tortured by soldiers earlier this year, saying one is deeply

Jayapura, Papua – Some 140 policemen from the Mobile Brigade (Brimob) police paramilitary unit in Jakarta assigned to Puncak Jaya regency in Papua since September this year have been se

Tom Allard – At the Cendrawasih military command in Jayapura, Papua, five Indonesian soldiers tomorrow will face justice for the abuse of two Papuan men, one burnt repeatedly on his gen

A former Vanuatu prime minister and leader of the Melanesian Progressive Party, Barak Sope, has called on the government to continue to apply political, diplomatic and legal pressure on

Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Monday there was "no immunity" for members of the country's armed forces, after a video showed them torturing unarmed civili

The websites of several NGOs campaigning for human rights in West Papua have come under cyber attack this week, with commentators suspecting Indonesia as being behind it.

Amnesty International is concerned that there may be no independent probe into the recent video footage of Indonesian soldiers torturing two Papuans.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua lawmakers insisted Tuesday that government take stern action against security personnel involved in a controversial video of alleged torture of Papu

Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission has rescheduled for today a meeting between four Papuan clans and copper-and-gold company, Freeport.

The New Zealand foreign minister, Murray McCully, says he welcomes an announcement by the Indonesian government of a full investigation into the apparent torture of two Papuan men by mi

The Australian Prime Minister will visit Indonesia on the 1 and 2 November to d iscuss ways to further strengthen the bilateral relationship and increase cooperation across a number of

Erwida Maulia and Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered a "thorough investigation" of a controversial video of the alleged torture of Papuans by Indones

The New Zealand-based Indonesia Human Rights Committee is again questioning New Zealand's training of Indonesian police in Papua following reports of a village burning earlier this mont

An international lawyers organisation says it hopes Indonesia will identify and punish those responsible for the torture of two Papuan men which was caught on video.

Jerry Omona – The Papuan Caucus in the Indonesian Parliament has strongly condemned the burning down of dozens of houses and churches in the district of Puncak Jaya, Papua.

Karishma Vaswani, Jakarta – Indonesia has admitted that the men seen torturing Papuan villagers in a video uploaded on the internet earlier this week are members of the military.

Jo Adetunji – The Indonesian government today confirmed that a graphic video showing scenes of torture by Indonesian soldiers on native Papuans was authentic and said the soldiers invol