Nethy Dharma Somba, Timika – Two conflicting tribes, the Damal and Nduga, in Papua province have agreed to end the bloody clashes that have killed two tribesmen on each side.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Papuan people's campaign against the province's division has received a major boost after the State Administrative Court ruled on Tuesday against a law

With a long tradition of supporting independence movements in the Pacific, Vanuatu has taken the lead to support dialogue on the future of the Indonesian province of Papua.

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – A panel of judges dismissed on Monday defense pleas by two senior police officers charged with human rights abuses in Papua, ruling that their ad hoc rights

Biak – Some 300 people in Biak Numfor district in Indonesia's Papua province staged a peaceful rally at the legislative council building on Tuesday to press for the discharge of police

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Suwarjono, Jakarta – Opposition to presidential and vice-presidential candidates from the military are surfacing again.

Matthew Moore, Makassar – The first member of Indonesia's notorious paramilitary police force Brimob to face trial for human rights abuses has appeared in court accused of allowing the

Matthew Moore/Karuni Rompies, Makassar – The first member of Indonesia's notorious paramilitary police force (Brimob) ever to face trial for human rights abuses has appeared in court ac

Jayapura – About 500 Papuans in the Coalition of Civilians for Human Rights protested at the province's legislative council here on Wednesday to oppose the May 1, 1963 integration of th

Brian Toohey – The appointment of a new police chief in western Papua might seem of little interest to the British Foreign Office.

Jayapura – Most of people in Papua living with HIV/AIDS are between 5 years and 29 years of age, or in their productive years, numbering 746 or 51 percent out of a total 1,454 people wi

Alisa P., Jakarta – Scores of activists from the Papuan National Student's Front (Front Nasional Mahasiswa Papua, FNMP) held a demonstration at the United Nations offices in Jakarta on

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Papua province now reaches 1,398 and has sparked concern among Papuans and local health officials.

Counting continues after Indonesia's national elections in the world's third largest democracy.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Police here said on Sunday that they had shot dead a suspected separatist in the troubled province of Papua for allegedly trying to discourage people from

Sentani – Less than three years after special forces troops killed his father, restive Papua's most prominent independence leader at the time, Boy Eluay wants to be an Indonesian politi

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A key witness to the 2002 ambush in Papua that left two Americans and one Indonesian dead has changed his testimony that Army soldiers were responsible fo

Jakarta – Prosecutors have indicted two senior police officers on charges of allowing their men to torture hundreds of people in the eastern province of Papua, officials said on Thursda

Jakarta – A human rights group in Papua province said Thursday it was being sued by Indonesia's powerful military for alleging that troops carried out an ambush which killed two America

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Political campaigning for the 2004 general elections in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, is apparently not as lively as before, in 1999, as can be

The following letter was sent today to Minister of State Douglas Alexander

29 March 2005

A leading Indonesia analyst says Jakarta has grossly mishandled the troubled province of Papua, and now seems to be stepping back to watch it disintegrate.

Jakarta – Government troops have shot dead a separatist leader in Indonesia's eastern most province of Papua, a military spokesman said on Saturday.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua governor JP Solossa has expressed his fear of a possible delay of several days in the legislative elections scheduled for April 5 for technical, geo

Tom Benedetti – A storm is quietly but rapidly gaining force in an overlooked corner of the world.

Slobodan Lekic, Jakarta – US officials believe local army commanders ordered an ambush that killed two American teachers near a gold mine in a case that has held up resumption of normal

Tim Shorrock – August 31, 2002, began as a day like any other in the lives of Patsy and Rick Spier.

Neles Tebay – When the territory of Papua was under Dutch rule, the population was almost exclusively Papuan, made up of some 252 ethnic groups.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Papuan tribal leaders rejected what they called an unsatisfactory investigation into the murder of proindependence Papuan leader Dortheys "Theys" Hiyo Eluw

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A seminar featuring respected intellectuals, analysts and religious leaders has urged the government to lift Presidential Instruction No.

Semarang – Four university students of Papuan origin, detained by Central Java police for having raised the separatist "morning star" flag on December 3, 2003, have been set free.

Jayapura – Anticipating security disturbances in the lead up to the 2004 general elections, the TNI (armed forces) will increase surveillance in areas which are considered to be suscept

Jakarta – Home Affairs Minister Hari Sabarno stated that so far the government did not have any plans to raise the status of civil order in Papua formerly Irian Jaya to civil emergency.

Currently more than 2.2 tons a year of hazardous and toxic (B3) wastes are exported to developing countries, including Indonesia.

Jakarta – Kontras National Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, Elsham Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy and National Solidarity for Papua formerly Irian

Yogyakarta – The government said it has no plan to raise a civil emergency status on Papua, despite constant security problems in the country's easternmost province.

Charles Foster – It was predictable and depressing.

Jayapura – The Papua Police are preparing two-third of its personnel to guard the upcoming elections, a senior officer at the police headquarters said on Wednesday.

Tom Benedetti – A storm is quietly but rapidly gaining force in an overlooked corner of the world.

Jayapura – The plan by the People's Consultative Assembly Commission I urging the government and related partners to conduct a military operation in Papua for the sake of safeguarding t

Makassar – The South Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office said on Tuesday it had completed the case files of two police officers charged with human rights abuses in Papua province a month

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has started investigating alleged gross abuses in the Papua province last year and in 2001 and plans

The Wamena District Court sentenced on Thursday two more civilians to 20 years in prison each for their roles in breaking into a military arsenal in Wamena last year and stealing rifles

Kel Dummett – For the many human rights organizations and individual activists around the world concerned about ongoing human rights violations in the province of Papua, the announcemen

Jason MacLeod – On December 3, Indonesian security forces detained four West Papuan students for their part, two days earlier, in releasing West Papuan flags – known as the Morning Star

Jakarta – A number of non-governmental organizations here on Tuesday called on the government to hold a national dialogue to end conflicts in eastern Papua province.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – An ad hoc team with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will probe alleged gross violations of human rights in the province of Papua.