Camelia Pasandaran, Farouk Arnaz & Fidelis E. Satriastanti, Jakarta – The government aims to speed up development of two economic clusters of…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Regional Representatives Council (DPD) will host a meeting between ministers and Papuan leaders on Monday to break…

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – After denying that the deadly flash floods in Wasior, West…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Red Cross have blamed "miscommunication" among emergency authorities for sending relief aid to the devastated town of…

Fidelis E Satriastanti – A Papuan tribe fighting over its customary rights to land in court against US mining giant Freeport McMoRan on Monday…

AWPA (Sydney) has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard urging that as Australia is one of the best resourced countries in the region we should…

Jayapura – US ambassador to Indonesia Scot Marciel reiterated his country's full support for Papua as part of the integrated nation of…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-162-2010

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Police in Wamena, Papua killed Ismail Lokobal, fired near fatal shots at…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti & Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Activists on Friday blamed environmental degradation and forest conversions for the…

Manokwari – The death toll from flash floods in eastern Indonesia has risen to 110 with bodies still lying unclaimed in the mud four days after…

Wasior, West Papua – The remote Indonesian town of Wasior was a scene of devastation on Wednesday, with bodies lying unclaimed in the debris of…

Nivell Rayda & Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – As calls for independence in Papua and West Papua intensify, leaders in the restive provinces…

A spokesman for Vanuatu's Prime Minister Edward Natapei has confirmed he did not raise the issue of the status of Indonesia's Papua…

In the past week, two local newspapers in Jayapura have published reports claiming that a number of countries have expressed their support for a…

Timika – One man was killed and at least three injured on Monday in a clash between Indonesian police and dozens of locals over a security check…

The United States has called for Indonesia to move forward on autonomy in its Papua region and insisted it would not overlook human…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives urged the government on Tuesday to establish information commission offices across Indonesia in…

Camelia Pasandaran & Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has dispatched his three coordinating ministers and their…

Just weeks after it was revealed that members of the Indonesian counter-terrorism unit Detachment 88 was accused of the torture of activists in…

American Samoa's US congressman, Faleomavaega Eni Faleomavaega says the Pacific should not turn its back on the Indonesian region of…

Serious concerns have been raised in the United States about the treatment of West Papuans under Indonesian rule. For the first time a US Congress…

Jayapura – A new detachment of 140 Mobile Brigade personnel from Bogor, West Java, has been dispatched to Puncak Jaya.

The…

Geoffrey Bell – New Zealand needs to follow the "Bougainville solution" and facilitate peaceful dialogue between representatives of Indonesia and…

Jayapura – Eleven Mobile Brigade personnel blamed for a recent deadly incident in Manokwari have been handed sanctions.

On Sept…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Papuans told the US Congress at a hearing on Wednesday of the struggle to have their rights acknowledged by the…

Nivell Rayda, Banjir Ambarita & AFP, Jakarta – The United States on Wednesday urged Indonesia to move forward on autonomy for Papua but warned…

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The United States Congress on Wednesday held an open hearing on Indonesia's alleged military abuses in Papua as well as…

Shaun Tandon, Washington – The United States called Wednesday for Indonesia to move forward on autonomy in its Papua region and insisted it would…

Today there are rallies at US Embassies in West Papua, Jakarta, Melbourne and Perth, reminding US Senators in a Congressional Hearing in…

Ismira Lutfia & Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The government is being far too harsh in its handling of the low-level insurgency in Papua, a…

This week the House subcommittee on Asia will hold hearing on West Papua (Wed, September 22, 3 pm, 2172 Rayburn House Office Bldg., broadcast…

Nivell Rayda & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – Human rights groups in West Papua are calling on the national rights commission to investigate last…

A Papuan political prisoner in Jayapura's Abepura prison says ongoing international pressure is essential to force Indonesia to…

A Papuan political prisoner in Jayapura's Abepura prison says Indonesia's government is afraid of what he might do if he's released.…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Two people are dead after a traffic accident triggered a riot on Wednesday at a police station in Manokwari, West…

Jakarta – Papua Police are questioning seven Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel in relation with a clash between police and local…

Markus Makur, Timika – The Timika church in Mimika, Papua, has voiced its opposition of the province's planned oil palm plantation project,…

Timika, Indonesia – Indonesian police opened fire and killed two men and injured a woman as a dispute over a traffic accident spun out of control…

Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – The military deployed soldiers across Manokwari, West Papua, on Thursday as thousands of residents stayed on the…

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There are questions over the benefits of New Zealand's police training programme in Indonesia's Papua and West Papua provinces.

The New…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Detachment 88 has a legitimate role in countering separatism and will remain in Papua, where a long-simmering independence…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said his ministry received a proposal to make use of 500,000 hectare areas for the…

Dev Nadkarni – John Otto Ondawame, Vice President of the West Papua National Council for Liberation, was a deeply disappointed man at the end the…

There's no sign that Indonesia's government will release any more political prisoners in Papua region despite a large campaign…

Indonesia's government has been accused of clamping down on the most prestigious and well-established NGOs operating in the Papua region following…

The West Papua Advocacy Team says ordinary Papuans stand to lose considerable benefits after another leading NGO was banned from…

Indonesia's government has been accused of running a campaign to limit global awareness of Papua following its decision to ban another…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-128-2010

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The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed about the killing of a…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The incumbent head of Boven Digoel district in Papua is leading the early vote count in his bid for re-election,…