Markus Makur, Timika – Members of the House of Representatives Commission I on security and defense affairs have accused security authorities of being not transparent in handling a seri

Timika – Residents of Mimika, Papua, hoped the security situation in the area of PT Freeport Indonesia would soon be restored to normal, so that there will be no more employee buses bei

Jayapura – The Papuan Traditional Council (DAP) chief, Forkorus Yobiosembut, in Jayapura, Monday, stated that it was not Kelly Kwalik or his group that committed the series of terrorist

Jayapura – The Papuan Traditional Council (DAP), the Human Rights and Violence Foundation (Yahamak), and the Association of Pengunungan Tengah Students (AMPTI) urged police to release s

Farouk Arnaz – National Police have dispatched 150 officers, including antiterror police, to Timika, Papua, to support local officers and the military in their hunt for suspects followi

Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, Jayapura, Timika – Residents in Nomouwodide, Bogobaida district in Paniai, Papua, seized Wednesday a helicopter scheduled to haul heavy equipment t

Unidentified assailants have shot a soldier near the giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold mine in Papua, police said on Thursday.

Markus Makur, Timika, Papua – Papua Police are cooperating with the military as they begin hunting for gunmen responsible for a shooting incident that wounded two employees of US mining

Violence flared again near the Freeport gold mine in Indonesia's Papua province as gunmen shot and wounded two of the company's employees, police said on Tuesday.

Heru Andriyanto – A court showdown between a Papuan tribe and US mining giant Freeport McMoRan resumed on Thursday after negotiations to settle the dispute out of court collapsed, a law

Jakarta – A security guard was wounded in a shooting near Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province, a company spokesman said on Wednesday, th

Markus Makur, Timika – At least two people were injured as a group of unidentified persons attacked a PT Freeport Indonesia security bus on Saturday at Mile 42, both of whom were rushed

Markus Makur, Timika – Monolithic mining company PT Freeport Indonesia should be forthright on the problems taking place within its concession area, a member of the National Commission

Markus Makur, Timika – Despite an increase in the number of security officers guarding PT Freeport Indonesia's mine in Timika, Papua, a military car was shot at by unknown gunmen in the

John Pakage & Antara – At least 600 soldiers have arrived in Timika, Papua, to tighten security around PT Freeport Indonesia's mining site after a series of deadly attacks on the co

Markus Makur, Jayapura – The Papua Police Office has handed over to the Timika Prosecutor's Office dossiers of seven people accused of being involved in a riot at the US-mining giant PT

At least 600 army officers will help secure the working areas of the PT Freeport Indonesia mine in Timika, Papua, starting on September 2, following a number of armed attacks on the sit

Papua police have identified a group suspected of supplying the ammunition used in a number of armed attacks against US-based gold miner PT Freeport Indonesia in the past month, an offi

Jakarta – Papua Police have intensified security measures along a road connecting Timika and Papua following three shooting attacks on the road Wednesday.

Nethy Darma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Papua military commander Maj. Gen.

Heru Andriyanto – US mining giant Freeport McMoRan has criticized a lawsuit filed by Papua's Amungme people, who are seeking $30 billion in damages over the company's 40-year mining ope

Heru Andriyanto – The Amungme tribe on Thursday filed a $30 billion lawsuit against Freeport McMoRan, one of the world's major mining firms, for alleged damages sustained over 40 years

Police have charged five more suspects in a spate of deadly shootings at the Indonesian gold mine of US company Freeport, but the motive for the attacks remains a mystery, officials sai

Markus Makur, Timika - Police have named seven suspects, including an employee of mining company PT Freeport Indonesia, for their involvement in a series of shootings in the vicinity of

Christian Motte – The Papuan People's Assembly, a body representing the cultural and social rights of Papuans, on Friday urged the police to find those responsible for a recent series o

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Christian Motte & Farouk Arnaz – Another convoy of PT Freeport Indonesia vehicles came under attack in Papua on Wednesday, leaving a Timika Police officer and a local Freeport emplo

Fourteen local Papuans have been arrested over the series of deadly ambushes near the Freeport mine last weekend.

One person was injured in a shooting Wednesday along the embattled road leading to the Freeport gold and copper mine in Papua.

TAPOL warmly welcomes the decision of the Papuan Amungme Tribal Council to file a lawsuit against the Indonesian Government, the Coordinating Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie and Freepo

Jakarta – "Foreign countries" could be behind a series of deadly ambushes near a US-owned goldmine in Indonesia's remote Papua province that have killed three people, the defence minist

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Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia is deploying police special forces to US-based Freeport's gold mine – the world's largest – after a wave of shootings at the remote facility, a polic

Additional police and military forces are being sent to beef up security along a road in Papua that has seen a string of deadly attacks in recent days.

Dicky Christanto and Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The National Police and the Army have deployed officers to investigate a recent series of attacks in the vicinity of PT Freeport Indnones

Jakarta – The Mimika District Legislative Council (DPRD) in Papua Province has condemned the shooting incidents which occurred in an area controlled by US mining company PT Freeport Ind

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – A series of killings in the remote highlands of Indonesia's Papua region have thrown a spotlight on the murky history of a massive US-owned mine sitting atop t

Nurfika Osman – The Armed Forces on Sunday again denied that it was still receiving payments from US mining company Freeport McMoran to provide security around the giant Grasberg mine,

Jayapura – A security guard employed at the huge Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province was shot dead and several police officers wounded in two separate shootings on Sunday

Jakarta – Security agencies should conduct a professional investigation into the fatal shooting on Saturday of Drew Nicholas Grant, an Australian working for PT Freeport in Papua, a Pap

Jakarta – An Australian worker has been shot dead near the massive Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province run by a unit of Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc, Papua's police ch

Reports from Indonesia's Papua say continuing clashes with anti-terrorist police in Kapeso of Mamberamo Raya district have left at least four Papuans dead.

Papuan independence activists are calling for a mass boycott of tomorrow's Indonesian presidential election.

In a letter to the Australian Prime Minister, Australian-West Papuan support groups have called on the Prime Minister to cease all ties between the Australian military and the Indonesia

Angela Flassy, Jayapura – Papuan activist Bucthar Tabuni was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for "provocation" at a pro-independence demonstration last year.

Nurfika Osman – Continued dialogues between religious and tribal leaders from Papua and Jakarta are necessary to bring about a mutual understanding that would lead to peace in the resti

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – In what seems to be a last minute decision, television news network Al-Jazeera English decided not to premiere on Thursday a highly-sensitive documentary highlig

Farouk Arnaz – A hit-and-run ambush on a group of elite Mobile Brigade police officers has left one officer dead in the latest violence to hit troubled Papua.

Adam Gartrell – A new report calls on Australia to cut off ties with Indonesia's feared special forces group Kopassus over new evidence it is terrorising civilians in Papua.

Jonathan Wootliff – One of the world's largest gold, silver and copper mines can be found deep in the heart of one of Indonesia's most remote landscapes.