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

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Police and military officers acted appropriately in the way that they dispersed the third Papuan People's Congress, Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pash

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-150-2011

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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

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.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A shootout took place in the Tanah Hitam mountain early on Tuesday morning after the banned Morning Star flag was hoisted, a day before Indonesia marked Inde

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A group of 18 professors from the country's top universities have urged the government to end the use of military force in dealing with problems in Papua, th

The chairman of Commission A of DPRP.

Arientha Primanita – There can be no development in Papua unless it is demilitarized, human rights watchdog Imparsial said on Tuesday as it launched a new report on the impact of the mi

Putri Fitria, Yogyakarta – In a mind-boggling example of the Indonesian justice system, a search and rescue volunteer who spent more than 100 days behind bars for possessing a weapon –

Two Papuans are due to go on trial in Manokwari for raising the 14-star flag.

Jakarta – Nine people have been arrested after an outlawed separatist flag was raised in Papua, police said on Sunday.

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Rev.

AI Index: ASA 21/019/2010

Jakarta – Working People's Association (PRP) activists demanded police order a thorough investigation into the death of a university student in Garut, West Java, who died Monday after b

Criminal defamation is a potent weapon for those who want to silence critics in Indonesia.

Indah Setiawati and Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The national rights body is demanding the government review the function of the Jakarta Public Order Agency following allegations of misco

Wednesday's rioting and bloodshed at Tanjung Priok, sparked by an apparent misunderstanding over the fate of the historic tomb of an 18th-century religious leader, highlights the volati

Nivell Rayda, Arientha Primanita Dimas Siregar – What began as a misunderstanding evolved into a conflict that turned Tanjung Priok port into a war zone on Wednesday.

Arientha Primanita & Nivell Rayda – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday ordered a thorough investigation into the bloody clashes between residents and public order offic

Ulma Haryanto & Arientha Primanita – Wednesday's violent clash between the North Jakarta municipal forces and Muslim residents in Tanjung Priok centered around the former tomb of an

Nurfika Osman – Poorly trained and poorly paid, public order officers, better known as Satpol PP, at times commit acts of brutality, experts admit, but their services are still in deman

Jayapura – Soldiers were involved in an exchange of fire with alleged Free Papua Organization members in Mulia, Puncak Jaya district, on Monday evening.

Makassar – A resident from Papua province stood trial Wednesday at the Makassar District Court, South Sulawesi, on charges of carrying and possessing a gun.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-148-2009

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Yoab Syatfle, a political activist in West Papua, has received repeated death threats.

An Indonesian political activist has received a number of anonymous SMS messages warning him that he will be killed if he leaves his home, Amnesty International has learned.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-135-2009

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Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-118-2009

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AI Index: ASA 21/012/2009

Tom Hyland – New details of secret Australian surveillance of Indonesia's Papua province have emerged, revealing that Australian officials believed Indonesian military weapons were used

Five middle-aged Australians held for nine months in West Papua for immigration offences have been cleared by Indonesia's Supreme Court, clearing the way for their return home.

Angela Flassy, Jayapura – The government is sending reinforcement to Papua ahead of the July 8 presidential election by deploying three platoons of the elite police Mobile Brigade (Brim

Jakarta – A court in Indonesia's remote Papua region has jailed 11 activists for "subversion" after they raised the region's banned independence flag, a lawyer said on Friday.

Tjahjono EP/ENI, Timika – Provincial Police has named Paulus Kiwing and Matius Magai, residents of Kwamki Baru town as suspects for raising the outlawed Kejora Star flag last Tuesday.

Indonesia – Police have detained 41 people in Fakfak, 890 kilometers west of Jayapura, for allegedly hoisting the Bintang Kejora (Morning Star) flag on Saturday.

Jakarta – The National Commission of Human Rights has found 15 rubber bullets at the National University (Unas) campus in East Jakarta, where a clash between police and students took pl

Jayapura – It appears that the police will show not tolerance to those who unfurled the Morning Star flag during a demonstration on grounds of the Manokwari Regional House of Representa

Jayapura – The case of the hoisting of the Kejora flag on 1 December in Timika is being intensively handled by the Mimika police with back-up from the police force in Papua.

A number of human rights activists and leading personalities in West Papua have taken the unusual step of making representations to the police in Jayapura, complaining that they have be

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Police use gun to threaten Rev Sofian Yoman, outspoken Human Rights advocate, at Church service

Only days after the Indonesian Government banned U.S Congressman Eni Faleomavega from visiting West Papua, the Indonesian police, military and local government in Yogyakarta have teamed

Banda Aceh – The Acehnese People's Party (PRA), the first local political party to be established in Aceh, is appealing to the public to remain calm and not be provoked by the by the re

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – A grenade exploded at the residence of former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) spokesman Sofyan Dawood in Muara Dua district, Lhokseumawe, early Sunday morning.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Less than two years after the signing of the peace agreement between the Indonesian government and Free Aceh Movement (GAM), residents of Nanggroe Aceh Darusal

Ed Davies, Jakarta – Indonesia is continuing to arrest and hand down heavy prison sentences to activists in Papua for peacefully supporting independence in the remote eastern area, Huma

Cunding Levi, Jayapura – many as 23 defendants and convicts of the case on March 16 in Abepura, Papua, disputed that the clash was coordinated by the People's Front of Struggle (Pepera)

Jayapura – Development planning in the province of Papua is not being handled well even though the province has huge sums of money, in the form of general allocations as well as special

Jayapura – The Jayapura District Court on Wednesday handed down a five-year prison term to Sem and Wandik, the latest defendants to be convicted for their involvement in a bloody clash