Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Mining company PT Freeport Indonesia claims that funds given to security personnel guarding project sites in Papua are allowed under a multi-national pact.

Elisabeth Oktofani – Unions both local and international have voiced support for their colleagues in Papua and defended wage demands by striking Freeport miners as justified, considerin

John McBeth, Jakarta – He is a mechanic with a single name and a mysterious past, but the man called Sudiro is almost single-handedly leading the eight-week-long strike that has played

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Police announced on Tuesday that nine municipal and district police chiefs across Papua were rotated, but denied the move was a response to allegations of a

Banjir Ambarita – The separatist group that claimed responsibility for the shooting death of a subdistrict police chief in Papua has been identified by authorities as "Kodap X," a group

Banjir Ambarita, Ezra Sihite & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Police have set a deadline of today for thousands of striking workers at Freeport-McMoRan's giant gold and copper mine in Pap

Jakarta – Human rights watchdog Imparsial has criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his slow response to the Papua conflict, highlighted by the fact he has yet to install a

Jakarta – The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) has reported payments of security funds by PT Freeport Indonesia to the police from 2001 to 2010 totaling around US$79.1 million.

Rizky Amelia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The recent admission by the National Police chief that the police were receiving money from Freeport Indonesia has prompted everyone from l

The union representing striking Freeport Indonesia mine workers in Timika, Papua, is claiming that a number of police armored vehicles and heavy loaders were on their way to break up th

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – The government is sending the deputy minister for mineral resources to Papua with orders to get the Freeport mine operating again before dealing with the demand

Jayapura – Renewed demonstrations are being held in Jayapura today demanding Indonesia take formal and legal responsibility for ongoing human rights abuses in West Papua, most recently

Renewed demonstrations are being held in Jayapura today demanding Indonesia take formal and legal responsibility for ongoing human rights abuses in Papua region.

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has demanded that the government change its security approach in dealing with Papua, and initiate dialogue

Jakarta – Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to investigate reported millions of US dollars of grants from gold and copper miner PT Freep

Jakarta – As violence escalates in Papua, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is ready to deploy his special team on Papua, established on Sept. 20, according to an aide on Saturday.

Agus Triyono & Banjir Ambarita – Rights activists announced on Friday that an investigation has led them to believe that police have involved themselves too deeply in labor disputes

Unknown assailants fired shots at two police trucks that were traveling near Freeport McMoRan's gold and copper mine in Timika, Papua, on Saturday.

Jakarta – Former state secretary under former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid, Bondan Gunawan, says he believes the daily allowances that PT Freeport Indonesia gives to the police

Farouk Arnaz – The police admitted on Friday what much of the country has long known that they accepted millions of dollars from Freeport Indonesia to provide security for the miners op

Human Rights Watch has called for the president to establish an independent investigation into the deaths of protesters and the ongoing violence in Papua.

Jakarta – Pay talks between Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold and a union representing striking workers at its Indonesia mine are deadlocked after a week of negotiations, the union sai

Depok, West Java – Australian Ambassador to Indonesia Greg Moriarty is of the opinion that the conflict in Papua is a bid challenge for the Government of Indonesia in overcoming it.

International pressure is mounting for Indonesia to address growing unrest and violence in its Papua region.

Nethy Dharma Somba and Nani Afrida, Jakarta/Jayapura – Economic development that is supposed to help lift Papua from protracted poverty is at risk of a falloff as businesses become jitt

A New Zealand opposition MP wants Kiwi police to leave the Indonesian province of Papua. They are there to train their local counterparts in the principles of community policing.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Golkar Party chief Aburizal Bakrie warned the international community against intervening in Papua, saying the issue was part of Indonesia's domestic affai

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police Chief said on Friday that tens of million of dollars funneled to his institution by mining giant Freeport Indonesia were disbursed as "meal money" and

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.

Papuans peacefully calling for independence does not justify a deadly crackdown.

Banjir Ambarita, Dessy Sagita & Ezra Sihite, Jayapura – A pro-independence Papuan group has claimed responsibility for the killing of the Mulia subdistrict police chief earlier this

Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has largely avoided responding to claims of a heavy-handed security crackdown in Papua following the deadly dispersal of a pro-in

Arya Dipa and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – The Free Papua Movement (OPM) denied that the organization was behind the killing of Mulia Police chief Adj. Comr.

Six people have died in shootings after the West Papuan Independent Movement declared independence, which Indonesia describes as an act of treason.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Legislators threw staunch criticism at the government on Thursday, accusing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of turning a blind eye to escalating violenc

The convener of the New Zealand parliamentary support group for West Papua says the government should review its role training Indonesian police in community policing in Papua region.

Netty Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Following the eruption of violence in Papua over the past two months that has claimed eight lives, Pater Neles Tebay, rector of the Fajar Timur School of

The Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect appeals to the Indonesian government to show leadership in protecting and upholding human rights in response to continuing repo

Bagus BT Saragih and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The National Police have increased the security status of Puncak Jaya regency in Papua and deployed almost a full battalion of mobile

Farouk Arnaz – Separatist groups in Papua behind several hit and run attacks that have left police and military members dead and injured are out to get firearms, police said on Wednesda

In light of the dangerously deteriorating situation in West Papua AWPA has again written to the Foreign minister (letter below) urging him to use your good offices with the Indonesian G

Banjir Ambarita, Farouk Arnaz & Ronna Nirmala, Jayapura & Jakarta – The National Police are on the highest alert in Papua after the latest shooting in a spate of increased viole

Jakarta – An armed group launched yet another attack at around midnight on Tuesday near the mining site of PT Freeport Indonesia in Mimika, Papua.

Komnas HAM, the National Commission for Human Rights, has urged the police in Papua to respect the rights of the six persons who were arrested following the Third Papuan People's Congre

Olivia Rondonuwu – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold declared force majeure on some concentrate sales from its strike-hit Grasberg mine in Papua on Wednesday, a move that kept benchmar

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The international spokesperson of the Free Papua Movement (OPM), John Otto Ondawame, did not directly confirm, when asked, that members of his organization w

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Human rights groups said on Monday that there were "strong indications" that security forces committed rights abuses during last week's deadly crackdown on a

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – Armed violence in restive Papua claimed another victim on Monday when two men gunned down a police officer in broad daylight at an airport in the cent

Jakarta – In contrast to its comparative silence over to the recent fatal shooting of several Papuan workers and demonstrators, the National Police has deployed three teams of detective

Ronna Nirmala & Anita Rachman – Twelve people have been killed in the past two weeks in restive Papua province, but an analyst suggests that there may be a sinister common thread ru