Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Urgent reform in the Indonesian maritime transportation system is needed after a recent string of fatal boat…

Ari Supriyanti R., Lenny Tristia Tambun & Vita A.D. Busyra, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has threatened to evict squatters in its…

PT Sumber Air Mas Pratama, Jakarta – Hundreds of farmers in Karawang, West Java, who lost their land to PT Sumber Air Mas Pratama (SAMP) urged the…

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry has blocked eight websites that were found to be posting fabricated political news based on…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – While struggling to amend errors in documents supporting a challenge to presidential election results at the…

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin appealed to Indonesian Muslims not to support the extremist Islamic…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Residents who oppose the closure of the Dolly red-light district in Surabaya have reported repressive actions by the…

Jakarta – The legal team for the Gerindra Party's presidential candidate, Prabowo Subianto, reported the General Elections Commission (KPU) to the…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – After being ambushed in the District of Pirime on Friday, Indonesian army personnel managed to kill…

A journalist from Indonesia's Papua region says police discourage journalists from covering issues or stories involving the National…

Auckland (Pacific Media Watch) – The first West Papuan journalist to visit New Zealand has made a call for freedom for West Papua, and for the…

Support for a West Papuan bid to join the Melanesian Spearhead Group is strong in Indonesia's Papua region, according to a leading…

Lenore Taylor – The Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has called on the Australian government to explain the sweeping gagging order…

Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – The sale of subsidized fuel in Central Jakarta and on the capital's toll roads will be restricted starting this month in…

Gerry Van Klinken – The quote I love best about Jokowi's win came from Lamb Of God singer Randy Blythe, posted on Instagram: "Holy crap! The World…

Rizky Amelia, Jakarta – Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) pledged on Friday to help Australian authorities investigate an…

Sally Whyte – A West Papuan activist has fled to Australia in fear for her safety after giving testimony to an Australian tribunal into the 1998…

paulina Quintao – The Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equality (SEPI) has allocated $10.000 across all districts to prepare female…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Despite an earlier pact that president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and vice president-elect…

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – The US State Department's 2013 Report on International Religious Freedom accuses the Indonesian government of having…

Jakarta – News sites with the extension – news.com that imitate national news sites have been blocked since Wednesday.

The move was made…

Nethy Somba, Jayapura – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) called on local officials to speak out against the continuing…

Indonesia's President-elect Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, has been urged to make good on a promise to allow Papua region to be opened…

A West Papuan activist says Australia and New Zealand must not abandon the indigenous people of her homeland.

Visiting New…

A resolution to call upon the new President of Indonesia to commit to genuine media freedom in West Papua has gained historic cross-…

Shannon Gillies – Media will be silenced and the people will lose their voice if a controversial new Media Law is ratified in one of the Asia…

Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) says forest fires are becoming uncontrolable in Riau and West Kalimantan provinces.

Rizky Amelia, Edi Hardum, Novianti Setuningsih & Vita A.D. Busyra, Jakarta – Activists have demanded sterner action from the authorities…

Jakarta – Indonesian President-elect Joko Widodo has reiterated his offer to parties supporting his rival, Prabowo Subianto, to join his new…

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – President-elect Joko Widodo extended a plea on Tuesday to the political parties under Prabowo Subianto's coalition…

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West Papua Action Auckland is shocked that that Ministers Coleman and Tolley have…

Auckland (Pacific Media Watch/Scoop/CBS/Radio Australia) – New Zealand police minister Anne Tolley and defence minister Dr Jonathan Coleman must…

The Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Palau have been urged to discuss human rights violations in West Papua.

The Australian West…

Pat Walsh – The day after the result of Indonesia's presidential election was announced, I joined crowds of excited Indonesians at the…

Indonesian police on Sunday fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters at the country's infamous "Dolly" red light district, where workers are…

Jakarta – The victory of president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has prompted more prominent members of the United Development Party (PPP) and the…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Three soldiers suffered from gunshot injuries on Monday morning following an attack against a military…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi defended on Monday the recent move by local authorities to prohibit hundreds of internally…

The 45th Pacific Islands Forum and related meetings will be held from 29 July to 1 August 2014 in Koror, the Republic of Palau.

AWPA urges…

Jakarta – More hot spots have been found in the Sumatran province of Riau on Sunday, blanketing at least 10 districts and cities with…

Police Minister Anne Tolley and Defence Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman have a rare opportunity this week to gain first-hand knowledge about…

Ina Parlina and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – New Army chief Lt. Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo has pledged to strengthen the management of his force and to…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Human rights groups have called on president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to fill the new Cabinet only with figures…

Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Amid the growing intolerance of the Shia and Ahmadiyah groups, newly appointed Religious Affairs…

Raras Cahyafitri and Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Less than three months before the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is due…

SP/Novianti Setuningsih & Rizky Amelia, Tangerang – Indonesia's anti-corruption authority arrested figures from the country's military and…

Jakarta – The ex-general who lost Indonesia's presidential election to Jakarta governor Joko Widodo mounted a legal challenge to the result on…

Sita W. Dewi and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Social media played a major role in his presidential-election victory and now president-elect Joko "…

Josua Gantan & Adelia Anjani Putri, Jakarta – The campaign team of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto arrived outside Indonesia's…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesia must improve access to quality social services and to jobs to reduce the widening inequality gap that…