Anita Rachman – Eighty percent of Papuans live in the approximately 3,000 kampongs spread across the country's largest province, so any meaningful understanding of how Papuans live must

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A local NGO is urging the government to propose contract renegotiations with Freeport Indonesia to force the company to pay proper royalties for its mines.

Freeport Indonesia's labor union plans not to continue with a tripartite mediation involving the government and is seeking to discuss the matter directly with the company in order to en

Jakarta – Recent violence in Papua in July and August underscores the urgent need for the government to reassess its military approach and place respect for human rights at the heart of

Paris-Jakarta-Bangkok – The recent spike in violent incidents in Papua in July and August underscore the urgent need for Jakarta to re-assess its military approach to solve the situatio

Jayapura – As the UN General Assembly begins today (21/9) in New York, Indonesia will be in front line of supporting Palestinian efforts to become a member of the United Nations.

There are allegations about [multinational private security corporation] SecuriCor led [at Freeport] by someone called Ian Church being involved in intimidating workers.

Nethy Dharma Somba and Rangga D.

Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia president director and CEO Armando Mahler said that the company had decided not to pay the salaries of workers who have been on strike since Sept.

Rangga D.

Hundreds of paramilitary police have been sent to Indonesia's Papua province after 9,000 mining workers started a month-long strike for higher wages.

A report has been released following a joint investigation into the mistreatment and torture of a group of 15 Papuans in connection with two criminal incidents that occurred recently in

Samuel Wanda and Olivia Rondonuwu, Timika, Indonesia – Energy minister Darwin Zahedy Saleh said Indonesia is losing $6.7 million from revenue every day due to the strike involving thous

Timika, Indonesia – Thousands of workers at Freeport-McMoran's gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia began a monthlong strike Thursday over a wage dispute.

Jayapura – The Papua Police have dispatched 114 police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel to Timika to heighten security ahead of a planned month-long work strike by PT Freeport Indonesi

Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-041-2011

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Thousands of workers at Freeport McMoRan's giant gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia prepared to go on a month-long strike over wages at midnight on Wednesday, a workers union sai

Jayapura – Mufriadi, a journalist with TOP TV Papua, was reportedly beaten by the South Sorong regent while he was covering a rally involving local residents outside of the regency admi

Investing in conflict-affected and high-risk areas is a growing concern for responsible businesses and investors.

A massive upsurge in "mysterious acts of violence" around the Jayapura region of West Papua has many local observers blaming Indonesian security forces.

Once again, violence has been used in Papua, this time against a television journalist working for the local TV station in South Sorong, TOP TV.

Although thirteen of the fifteen Papuans who were arrested on 31 August have since been released, the National Human Rights Commission's (Komnas HAM) Papua branch is continuing to pay s

A group of Papuan independence activists in Auckland are hoping Pacific leaders have heard their calls for self-determination and the inclusion of West Papua in the Forum.

Jayapura – Police have detained two people identified as EK,17, and PK,19, for their alleged involvement in several murders in Jayapura, Papua, on June 7, 2011 and in Nafri on Aug.

As security in West Papua deteriorates, local groups have stepped up their calls for dialogue with Jakarta.

Jakarta – Jayapura district police have been accused of torturing 15 witnesses who were initially suspected of being members of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) in a violence related case

KontraS condemns the appalling practices of torture and criminalisation which were perpetrated by the law enforcement agencies against of a number of Papuan people by the police in Papu

Max Lane – I was very active between 1991 and 1999 in the international solidarity movement for Timorese independence.

David Adam Stott – "Where it cuts across the island of New Guinea, the 141st meridian east remains one of colonial cartography's more arbitrary yet effective of boundaries."1

The Pacific Islands Forum is being told it must speak out about the ongoing instability in the Indonesian region of Papua.

At the the 42nd Meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to be held in Auckland next week, AWPA calls on the PIF leaders to grant observer status to genuine representatives of the Wes

Maire Leadbeater – The Melanesian people of West Papua, neighbours to Papua New Guinea, say they belong to the Pacific region and that it is their home geographically, ethnically and cu

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-150-2011

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Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – It is a seemingly unending conflict in a part of the world famous for both its awesome remoteness and the incredible wealth on and beneath the ground.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Jayapura City Police have named Julius Wenda, 32, a resident of Kotaraja, Abepura, a suspect in connection with the murder of Capt. Tasman M.

Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday urged Indonesia to free a Papuan activist jailed for staging a peaceful protest and raising an independence flag in the remote province.

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London – After the mass mobilization of the people of Papua on 2nd August 2011, and the conference of the International Lawyers on West Papua (ILWP) in Oxford England, conflicts and var

Dance Yanu has been sentenced to seven months and 16 days by a judge at the Manokwari court after being found guilty of makar (subversion).

There are fears that the prospects for peace in the land of Papua will becoming increasing difficult for three reasons.

Washington – More than two dozen US lawmakers on Monday urged Indonesia to free Papuan activist Filep Karma, saying that his detention raised questions about the emerging US ally's comm

An Indonesian Military officer stationed in Papua was stabbed to death by unknown attackers on Tuesday.

The Papuan National Liberation Army, the military wing of the OPM has condemned the shooting dead in Arso 14, district of Keerom of a Papuan named Dasnum Komba which occurred on 17 Augu

Jakarta/Brussels – A spike in violence in Indonesian Papua over the last two months underscores the urgency of exploring new ideas to address conflict there.

Today, a bipartisan group of 26 members of the United States House of Representatives, led by Reps.

Elisabeth Oktofani – The government must quickly set up a long-awaited body to oversee political and economic development in the restive province of Papua if it is to stem a rising tide

A national reconciliation team of the West Papuan people consisting of a number of organisations that have been outspoken in their views about the problems of the indigenous Papuan peop

Ronna Nirmala & Banjir Ambarita – Prominent human rights activists urged the government on Sunday to hold immediate talks with people in restive Papua, as violence and calls for ind

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Nick Chesterfield and local sources – Indonesian Police and Army from a joint taskforce opened fire on a car of West Papua independence activists in Abepura, West Papua, on August 18, a