Jakarta – The University of Indonesia Student Executive Council (BEM UI) believes that the state has been acting repressively against indigenous Papuans protesting against the creation

Sahabandi – On Friday May 13, the Greater Jakarta Papua People's Petition Joint Secretariat (PRP Sekber Jabodetabek) and the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) held a pro

Mutia Yuantisya, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) on Thursday strongly condemned what they believe to be police violence acted against demo

A new network of MPs in support of West Papua was launched today (May 12, 2022) at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Nur Janti, Jakarta – Activists have condemned alleged terror and intimidation against Papuan human rights activists and called the police to thoroughly investigate an alleged arson atta

Jayapura, Jubi – The spokesperson for the Papuan People's Petition, Jefri Wenda, was arrested by the police regarding alleged violations of the Information and Electronic Transactions L

Jordan Fennell of ABC Pacific Beat talks to Laurens Ikinia

There has never been any democracy for the Papuan people! We continue to be shown the very tangible distain for the democratic rights of the Papuan people.

Manokwari, Jubi – Filep Wamafma, a lawmaker of the Regional Representatives Council from West Papua, regrets the increasingly closed democratic space in Papua, as seen by police action

Katharina Reny Lestari – A human rights organization in Indonesia's restive Papua province came under attack from an unknown assailant who threw what was thought to be Molotov cocktails

Jakarta – Police arrested at least seven people in relation to a protest action in Jayapura on Tuesday May 10 against the creation of new autonomous regions (DOB) in Papua.

Jayapura (Indonesia) – Indonesian police used water cannon against protesters in the province of Papua on Tuesday, after thousands came out to oppose plans to for a major redistricting

Jakarta – Papua Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) Director Emanuel Gobay says that a participant of a demonstration in Jayapura opposing the creation of new autonomous regions (DOB) in Papua i

TAPOL urges the Indonesian Government to release Jefry Wenda, the spokesperson of the Papuan People's Petition (Petisi Rakyat Papua, PRP) and others arrested today during a peaceful pro

Jayapura, Jubi – A member of the Commission for Government, Politics, Law and Human Rights at the Papua Legislative Council (DPRP), Laurenzus Kadepa, urged the Indonesian government to

For nearly 60 years, West Papua, a region in the easternmost stretches of the Indonesian archipelago, has been engaged in one of the longest-running independence struggles of any region

Yance Agapa, Paniai – Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid is asking the government to halt the planned gold mine at Wabu Block in Intan Jaya regency, until th

Jayapura, Jubi – Indonesian President Joko Widodo or Jokowi is urged to immediately follow up on the recommendations of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) in 2017 and

Kornelius Purba – Indonesian policymakers, from the highest to the lowest rung ladder, need to read and discuss with open minds an article that appeared in The Conversation titled "Desp

Konradus Epa – Papuan students have called on the Indonesian government to arrest military commanders involved in human rights violations in the country's restive easternmost region.

Jayapura – Data shows that the expansion of a region is highly dependent on the increase in Locally Generated Income (PAD), whose main components are regional taxes and levies.

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – Two members of the Indonesian security forces were shot and wounded by separatist rebels while guarding a church in Papua.

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – The National Liberation Army of West Papua-Free Papua Movement (TPNPB-OPM) has claimed responsibility for the attack on Sunday morning, May 1, 2022 at roun

Jayapura, Jubi – The Papua Provincial Government claims to have distributed scholarship funds, or paid tuition fees and sent allowances for 355 Papuan students who are studying abroad.

Jayapura, Jubi – Papuan People's Assembly (MRP) chair Timotius Murib says the government's plan to expand Papua, or form three new provinces, does not necessarily guarantee that the Pap

Eduard Lazarus – On 12 April, the Indonesian parliament announced plans to establish three new provinces in West Papua.

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – A construction worker was killed in an attack by armed separatists in Indonesia's restive Papua province in reprisal for the recent killing of two rebels by secu

Gilang Galiartha, Mecca Yumna, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD pointed out that 82 percent people of Papua and West Papua had agreed

Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta – Papua People's Council (MPR) Chairperson Timotius Murib has questioned a claim by Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs (Menko Polhuk

Jayapura, Jubi TV – The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) under the command of Goliath Tabuni and Lekagak Telenggen claimed to have set fire in Ilaga, Puncak Regency and shot

Jakarta, Jubi TV – President Joko Widodo received delegations from the Papuan People's Assembly (MRP) and West Papuan People's Assembly (MRPB) at the Merdeka Palace on Monday, April 25,

An interview with Irene Yuliana Fatagur

Jayapura, Jubi – A number of rights NGOs comprising KontraS, YLBHI, Amnesty International Indonesia and the families of the victims of the Bloody Paniai case (7-8 December 2014) highlig

The Pacific Elders' Voice has expressed deep concern about reports of deteriorating human rights in West Papua and has appealed to Indonesia to allow the proposed UN high commissioner's

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Primary school students in Indonesia are taught that the country has something significant, a tropical glacier in Papua's Jayawijaya mountains which is the only

Marian Faa – As a child, Efika Kora remembers watching planes glide over her remote village in the Pacific. Transfixed, she imagined that one day she would be the one flying them.

Jakarta – The unanimous House of Representatives' decision to pass a set of bills that will create three new provinces in Papua despite objections on the ground shows yet again that the

The House and the government should postpone the deliberation process for a set of bills that will create three new provinces in Papua otherwise it will further stoke tensions in the re

Jayapura, Jubi – Director of Institute of Human rights Study and Advocacy Papua (ELSHAM Papua) Rev.

London – Plans to establish 'Food Estates' were announced by the Indonesian government at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic because, it said, it wanted to ensure Indonesia's food s

Jakarta, Jubi TV – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD received the Papuan People's Assembly (MRP) and Amnesty International Indonesia at this off

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's plan to administratively split the country's easternmost region of Papua into five provinces, from the current two, has raised

Jayapura, Jubi – Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid said the determination of the Papua Expansion Bill as an Initiative Bill by the House of Representatives

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West Papuan students stranded in Aotearoa New Zealand by an abrupt cancellation of their Indonesian government scholarships earlier this year while trying to complete their degrees and

Open Letter: By David Robie of Asia Pacific Report

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Konradus Epa, Jakarta – A man was hacked to death and another injured in an attack by a rebel group in Indonesia's restive Papua province.

The Humanitarian Coalition for Papua says the creation of three new provinces in Papua by the Indonesian government is like repeating the management model of Dutch power during the colo

The Vanuatu Government through the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marc Ati, has expressed utter dismay at the announcement by the Director General (DG) of the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has agreed on the bill on the establishment of three new provinces in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua which will bring the