Randy Fabi & Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Prominent Papua activist Filep Karma, released this month after more than a decade behind bars, promised on Monday to reinvigorate the

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – "In Papua, not only the freedom of expression is restricted, but the freedom of worship as well," Director of Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta),

Jayapura – A member of the military police in Wamena, Jayawijaya regency, Papua, is under investigation for allegedly shooting an 18-year-old student at an areca nut-eating party at the

Jakarta – Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has praised an Indonesian government move to release Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma, who has spent 11 years behind bars for raisin

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – Papuan Legislator from Tolikara Electoral area, Orwan Tolli Wone, criticized the trial against two GIDI young members JW and AK related to the incident o

Jakarta – Amnesty International on Thursday welcomed the release of Papuan independence activist Filep Karma but stressed that his decade-long detention for peaceful opposition to Indon

Human Rights Watch says Filep Karma is still coming to terms with his release after 11 years in prison in which he became West Papua's most high profile political prisoner.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced former Papua governor Barnabas Suebu to four years and six months on Thursday after he was found guilty for inflating prices for a desig

Nethy Dharma Somba, Ina Parlina and Fedina S.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The panel of judges at the Jayapura Military Court in Papua dismissed First Sgt.

A high-profile West Papuan separatist leader has been released from prison after more than a decade behind bars, in a fresh sign that Indonesia may be easing its tight grip on the resti

Filep Karma spent more than a decade of his life in jail when he shouldn't even have been jailed for a day. It was an outrageous travesty of justice.

Jakarta – A prominent Papuan separatist leader on Thursday walked out of prison a free man in Indonesia's easternmost province after serving over a decade behind bars for treason.

Washington, D.C. – Freedom Now is pleased to announce that Papuan activist Filep Samuel Karma was released from prison today, four years before the end of his 15 year sentence.

Phelim Kine and Andreas Harsono – In September, Jakarta-based French journalist Marie Dhumieres decided to test whether Indonesia's decades-long barring of foreign media from Papua had

Jakarta – The New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has praised the decision by a military court in Papua last week to convict two soldiers for their role in the deaths o

Phelim Kine – Something remarkable happened last week in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province.

Victor Mambor, Semarang, Jubi – Vice Chairman of Advisory Council of the Union Churches of Indonesia, the Rev.

Jakarta – Indonesian authorities continue to restrict access by foreign journalists and rights monitors to Indonesia's easternmost provinces of Papua, raising serious concerns about the

In its latest report, the ICP brings together the research of 25 organisations and experts from in

Jakarta – Six months after President Joko Widodo announced that foreign media would have unimpeded access to Papua, Indonesian authorities continue to hamper reporting from the region in various wa

There are calls for Australia's prime minister Malcolm Turnbull to raise the matter of human rights abuses in West Papua with his Indonesian counterpart.

Indonesia has no travel restrictions on foreign journalists in its easternmost province of Papua, the country's security chief said on Wednesday, vowing to dismiss any police officials who blocked

Hon Malcolm Turnbull
Prime Minister
House of Representatives
PO Box 6022
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

10 November 2015

Dear Prime Minister,

Robin Williams – A young West Papuan currently in Australia is shooting video rather than bullets in his battle to fight the intimidation, torture and massacres that are regular occurrences in his

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) held on Monday the first trial of two military soldiers accused of fatally shooting two civilians and injuring three others during a festival in Mimika, Papu

The lid is lifting on what has been for so long Asia/Pacific's hidden region.

National – West Papua National Committee (KNPB) deputy chairman Agus Kossay and two other Papuans, Bano Kalaka and Nodi Hilka, were interrogated on Friday in connection with the arrival of French j

Despite a handful of Papuan political prisoners being freed recently by Indonesia's president, there's a lot more still languishing behind bars in West Papua.

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Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – The House of Representatives said the military should expand its base in Biak to anticipate security problems in eastern Indonesia.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) expects continued conflict in Papua unless the government takes immediate steps to better coordinate its security forces in the region and hold

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – While the annual land and forest fires usually occurr in Sumatra and Kalimantan, a large agricultural project in Merauke, Papua, could turn the eastern part of Indones

Jakarta – An Indonesian documentary maker has withdrawn her film from the government-funded Melanesian Cultural Festival this week, calling it a "political program" that diverts focus from the real

On Monday, President Obama met Indonesia's new president, Joko Widodo, at the White House to discuss climate change, trade and strengthening US-Indonesian ties.

Muhamad Edy Sofyan, Jakarta – The Indonesian stock exchange authority says it will restrict the market for a highly anticipated initial public offering of shares in mining giant Freeport Indonesia

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Government leaders and activists in Indonesia's Papua province said talks on extending the contract of the US-based PT Freeport McMoRan mining company ignored input from the l

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe said the Indonesian Government's proposal to establish the Indonesian Melanesian Brotherhood, which is marked with the signing of declaration in Ambon i

Australia's new Prime Minister has indicated that his government will prioritise economic interests over support to reinscribe West Papua on the UN list of territories to be decolonised.

The Governor of Indonesia's Papua province has warned that indigenous Papuans could disappear as a people if they remain marginalised in their own land.

For the first time, Radio New Zealand International journalists have been able to enter Indonesia's eastern region of Papua.

The Governor of Indonesia's Papua province Lukas Enembe says moves to form a Melanesian Brotherhood among five Indonesian provinces is mainly about politics.The governor was explaining his reluctan

Reverend Dormon Wandikbo is a leading member of the GIDI, or Gereja Injili di Indonesia, a Protestant church which, unlike other leading Protestant churches in Papua, has a presence in other parts

A note of caution has been sounded about Indonesian government plans to carve up another province out of Papua region.

Rochelle Jones – West Papuans have struggled for their freedom since they were annexed by Indonesia and robbed of their right to a fair referendum in 1969.

A Papua church leader says media reports about the recent burning of a small mosque in Tolikara have largely mis-represented relations between different faiths.

Dozens of students marched on the Indonesian Embassy in the New Zealand capital, Wellington, today to protest over continuing violence from the security forces in West Papua.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Hundreds of Indonesian Military personnel have been dispatched to extinguish spot fires across southern Papua that have caused thick smoke and disrupted flights at Mo

Reporters Without Borders is very disappointed by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's performance as regards freedom of information and media freedom during his first year in office.

Jayapura, Jubi – Native Papuans in seven indigenous territories will welcome the arrival of a fact-finding team from the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) to investigate human rights violations in Papua.

Robert Isidorus, Jayapura, Papua – West Papua has declared itself as the world's "first conservation province" in a signed declaration on Monday, in an bid to formally dedicate its efforts to conse