Leaders of the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation were in Cairns North Queensland to push hard for the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to grant West Papua observer status and also

It is very disappointing that the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) leaders have again failed to condemn the human right abuses being committed by the Indonesian security forces in West Papua.

Border crossings between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea that were closed last month remain restricted due to the security situation in Papua province, a military official said on Tuesda

Several West Papuans are gathering in Cairns this week to lobby Pacific Islands Forum leaders at their annual summit to have Indonesia's Papua region discussed at the Forum.

Police have charged five more suspects in a spate of deadly shootings at the Indonesian gold mine of US company Freeport, but the motive for the attacks remains a mystery, officials sai

The federal government is warning of a risk of further violence near the Freeport mine in Indonesia's restive Papua province.

Members of the National Liberation Army of the Free Papua Movement are reported to have raised an independence flag in the border region between Indonesia's Papua Province and Papua New

Christian Motte, Jayapura – The Papua Church Council is investigating the recent spate of violence in the province, especially near the PT Freeport Indonesia mining concession, the head

Markus Makur, Timika - Police have named seven suspects, including an employee of mining company PT Freeport Indonesia, for their involvement in a series of shootings in the vicinity of

Timika – A vehicle carrying medical supplies between Timika and Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Corporation's Grasberg mine, about 3,400 kilometres east of Jakarta, was fired on yester

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Christian Motte – The Papuan People's Assembly, a body representing the cultural and social rights of Papuans, on Friday urged the police to find those responsible for a recent series o

Christian Motte & Farouk Arnaz – Another convoy of PT Freeport Indonesia vehicles came under attack in Papua on Wednesday, leaving a Timika Police officer and a local Freeport emplo

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – Three more people were wounded by gunfire Wednesday at the world's largest gold mine, the latest ambush targeting employees of US conglomerate Freeport in Ind

Christian Motte, Jayapura – The trial of 15 people accused of treason just days before April's legislative elections began on Thursday in Papua's Nabire District Court.

One person was injured in a shooting Wednesday along the embattled road leading to the Freeport gold and copper mine in Papua.

Timika, Papua – Fourteen people have been arrested over a series of deadly ambushes near a Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province, police said yesterday.

Fourteen local Papuans have been arrested over the series of deadly ambushes near the Freeport mine last weekend.

Jayapura, Indonesia – Indonesian police have questioned 12 people in connection with deadly shootings near the giant Grasberg mine in Papua operated by a unit of Freeport McMoran Copper

The Australian foreign minister says he's leaving it up to Indonesian authorities to decide whether to take up his country's offer for more assistance to investigate the deadly shooting

TAPOL warmly welcomes the decision of the Papuan Amungme Tribal Council to file a lawsuit against the Indonesian Government, the Coordinating Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie and Freepo

Christian Motte – For the sake of their own safety, thousands of Freeport employees are temporarily forbidden to leave the company's Tembagapura mining site in Papua following a series

A Papua human rights activist has dismissed claims by Indonesia's Defence Minister that foreign governments or NGOs could be behind a series of deadly ambushes near the Freeport mine in

Jakarta – "Foreign countries" could be behind a series of deadly ambushes near a US-owned goldmine in Indonesia's remote Papua province that have killed three people, the defence minist

Jakarta – The Papua Council Presidium (PDP) has called on the central government to form an independent team to investigate a series of shooting along the road to Freeport Indonesia's G

Additional police and military forces are being sent to beef up security along a road in Papua that has seen a string of deadly attacks in recent days.

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia is deploying police special forces to US-based Freeport's gold mine – the world's largest – after a wave of shootings at the remote facility, a polic

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Workers at the Freeport-McMoran gold and copper mine have been ordered to stay at home after another series of shootings on the road where an Australian, Drew Gran

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New York – The visiting speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly has asked the US government not to support the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM).

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – Deadly ambushes at the world's largest gold mine likely stem from rivalries between Indonesian police and military forces who compete for millions in illegal

Although the TNI commander Djoko Santoso claims the Free Papua Movement (OPM) was likely behind shooting attacks in West Papua on the weekend, it was reported in the Jakarta Globe (14 J

Dicky Christanto and Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The National Police and the Army have deployed officers to investigate a recent series of attacks in the vicinity of PT Freeport Indnones

Geoff Thompson, Jakarta – Papua's police chief has denied bullets were removed from the body of murdered Australian Drew Grant before an autopsy was performed in Jakarta.

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – A series of killings in the remote highlands of Indonesia's Papua region have thrown a spotlight on the murky history of a massive US-owned mine sitting atop t

Jakarta – The Mimika District Legislative Council (DPRD) in Papua Province has condemned the shooting incidents which occurred in an area controlled by US mining company PT Freeport Ind

Farouk Arnaz, Christian Motte & April Aswadi – Autopsy results show that the victims of the weekend killings near Timika in Papua were shot with 5.56-millimeter caliber weapons.

Farouk Arnaz & April Aswadi – While publicly agreeing to cooperate in a joint operation to find the perpetrators of the deadly weekend ambushes near the US miner Freeport McMoRan's

Some Papuan police sources are blaming the shootings on the Free Papua Movement, but one rebel representatives has denied involvement.

Tony Eastley: It's been a weekend of deadly violence in the troubled Indonesian province of Papua.

Peter Cave: The death toll from a weekend of violence in Papua has now risen to three.

Nurfika Osman – The Armed Forces on Sunday again denied that it was still receiving payments from US mining company Freeport McMoran to provide security around the giant Grasberg mine,

Jayapura – A security guard employed at the huge Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province was shot dead and several police officers wounded in two separate shootings on Sunday

Tom Allard, Jakarta – A Melbourne man has been shot dead near the giant Freeport mine in Indonesia's Papua province in an apparent sniper attack.

Timika – Gunmen using military-issue weapons pre-planned an ambush that killed an Australian mine worker in Indonesia's restive Papua province, police have said.

Jakarta – Security forces arrested three separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM) members following a firefight in the district of Anatowai, Yapen, Papua, Saturday afternoon.

Jakarta – Security agencies should conduct a professional investigation into the fatal shooting on Saturday of Drew Nicholas Grant, an Australian working for PT Freeport in Papua, a Pap

Jakarta – An Australian worker has been shot dead near the massive Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province run by a unit of Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc, Papua's police ch

Reports from Indonesia's Papua say continuing clashes with anti-terrorist police in Kapeso of Mamberamo Raya district have left at least four Papuans dead.

Arientha Primanita – The National Police chief said on Wednesday four men had been arrested over attacks on polling stations in Papua's Yapen Waropen and Timika districts on the eve of