A Solomon Islands academic says the leaders of Melanesian Spearhead Group member states made a mistake in granting Indonesia associate member status in the group.

West Papua Action Auckland has urged the Prime Minister to raise human rights and the suffering of the people of Indonesian ruled West Papua when she meets with President Widodo on Mond

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit is taking place in Sydney on the 17-18 March.

A member of the pro-independence West Papua National Committee has been given a ten-month jail sentence for treason by an Indonesian court.

Giacomo Tognini – The next two years could prove to be transformative for Melanesia, a region of Pacific islands spanning from Papua in the west to Fiji in the east.

Indonesia's government collected US$756 million in revenue from the Freeport gold and copper mine in Papua province last year.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta – Papua gubernatorial candidates have promised to prioritize programs to improve the livelihood of Papuan people.

Fiji has hit back at the deputy prime minister of Solomon Islands over criticism about the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

A human rights activist has expressed frustration at omissions from reports by New Zealand diplomats about their visits to Indonesia's Papua region.

Dan McGarry – In a brief message yesterday, Vanuatu Foreign Minister Ralph Regenvanu responded to an Indonesian spokesman's claims by Indonesia's First Secretary for Political Affairs i

The West Papua National Liberation Army's central command in the Papuan Highlands has made a fresh declaration of war against Indonesian military.

Jakarta must regain authority over Papua, demands PFF, the Pacific Freedom Forum, after the latest action by "rogue" security forces.

Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has extended the export recommendation for gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia amid sluggish progress in the negotiation of t

Indonesia's government has been helping fund the Melanesian Spearhead Group's secretariat.

Rangga Prakoso, Jakarta – The Indonesian government still has not issued a new copper concentrate export permit for Freeport Indonesia – the largest gold and copper miner in the country

Meriba Tulo, Port Moresby – West Papua's application to become a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group has gained traction, with MSG leaders referring the United Liberation Move

Leaders of Melanesian Spearhead Group countries have referred a West Papuan application for full membership in the group to its secretariat for processing.

Indonesia says the United Liberation Movement for West Papua's bid to be a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead group has reached a dead end.

Indonesia has warned Melanesian Spearhead Group member states against meddling in other countries' affairs.

Len Garae – The four West Papuan official representatives of United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) led by Chairman Benny Wenda, have been provided with historic VIP welcome b

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Zely Ariane, an editor at the Tabloid Jubi newspaper in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua, gets frustrated each time an acquaintance travels there an

The West Papua National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of an Indonesian soldier in Papua province yesterday.

A measles and malnutrition crisis has killed at least 72 people, mostly children, in Indonesia's remote province of Papua, home to the world's biggest gold mine.

Damien Kingsbury, Jakarta, Jubi/Crikey – West Papua has shown once again that freedom of speech is only for those who follow the rules.

Jakarta – Armed separatists shot dead an Indonesian soldier on Monday during a gunfight at a market place in the remote easternmost province of Papua, a military spokesman said.

The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner says his office has been invited by Indonesia's government to visit Papua region, or West Papua.

Sheany, Jakarta – The United Nations high commissioner for human rights said on Wednesday (07/02) that he will send a mission to Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, following rep

Krithika Varagur, Jakarta – Twin crises of measles and malnutrition have recently afflicted Indonesia's easternmost province, Papua, inciting foreign and media scrutiny as well as inter

Authorities in Indonesia have issued four new palm oil permits in its Papua provinces despite a moratorium on palm oil expansion declared by president Joko Widodo in 2016.

AWPA hopes the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Secretary General, Dame Meg Taylor who is in Canberra this week will raise the human rights situation in West Papua with Australia's Foreign M

Andreas Harsono – Last week, Indonesian authorities arrested a BBC correspondent for tweets she made while reporting from Papua.

Indonesia's government representatives say the deadly measles outbreak in Papua province has been brought under control.

After the BBC's Indonesia editor was expelled from the country's easternmost Papua region last weekend over a tweet, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) again urges the Indonesian authoriti

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesian paramilitary police fatally shot a woman in what they said was a clash with stone-throwing villagers in the troubled Papua region, but a relative of

Jakarta – Executive Director of Amnesty International Indonesia, Usman Hamid, said that the expulsion of BBC journalists and contributors who were doing coverage about health crisis in

The executive of the Vanuatu based United Liberation Movement of West Papua says it is confident the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea will vote for West Papua to become a full member

Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has criticized the government for banning three BBC Indonesia journalists from reporting on a measles and malnutrition outbreak i

Adam Harvey – An Australian journalist has been expelled from the Indonesian province of Papua after her tweets angered the military.

Jakarta – A foreign journalist covering the health crisis in Asmat, Papua, was forced to leave the region after the Indonesian Military (TNI) objected to a series of tweets she had post

Jayapura, Jubi – Special Autonomy (Otsus) Papua will be ended in 2021, but one of the mandates of Special Autonomy Law, namely the formation of local parties, has not been implemented.

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Military chief Air Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto on Thursday (01/02) said a devastating measles outbreak that affected 600 children in Asmat, Papua, has ended, though

An Indonesia-based human rights researcher says malnutrition is widespread throughout Papua as imported foods have shattered traditional diets.

Indonesian health teams are scrambling to attend to the deadly measles outbreak in Asmat district of Papua province.

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Indonesia's battle to stem a deadly measles outbreak striking malnourished children in Papua is doomed to be repeated unless the government helps lift the isolated region out of grindin

Taylor McDonald – Measles in eastern Indonesia's Papua province has killed around 100 indigenous children this month although the disease is easily preventable with a safe and inexpensi

Worried parents braved long queues and scorching heat in the remote Papuan jungle to get their sick babies treated Friday, as the impoverished region grapples with a deadly measles-and-

Step Vaessen, Papua, Indonesia – In their little bodies with bones nearly piercing through their skin, the eyes of these Papuan toddlers tell their story.

Andreas Harsono – A measles outbreak in Indonesia's Papua province has killed an estimated 100 indigenous Papuan children this month.

The number of malnutrition victims in Asmat district of Indonesia's Papua province has reportedly surpassed 10,000.