A number of NGOs have raised concern over the Indonesian government's plan to develop a massive food estate in Papua province.

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Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Indonesia would have to clear about 700,000 hectares of forest, an area 10 times the size of Singapore, if it proceeds…

Jakarta – The Indonesian military is considering sending thousands of extra troops to restive Papua province where it stands accused of widespread…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Lidya is 12 years old but unlike most girls her age, she only weighs 9 kilograms, suffers from leprosy and spends…

Jayapura – The police apprehended 15 activists from the West Papua National Committee protesting outside Waena Expo complex in…

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

Jakarta – Around 35 representatives of students and civil society groups from Papua demonstrated on Wednesday March 17 in front of the United…

The International Crisis Group published a report on March 11, Indonesia:…

A number of media articles have mistakenly implied that the International Crisis Group (ICG) report …

Timika – The number of security personnel stationed at the working area of PT Freeport Indonesia has been reduced from 1,576 to 886, a…

A leading conflict prevention group on Thursday urged the Indonesian government and separatists in the resource-rich province of Papua to enter…

Jakarta/Brussels – A substantive dialogue between the Indonesian government and Papuan leaders could help stem political radicalisation in the…

The Australian-based West Papuan National Coalition for Liberation says Indonesia's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, should show…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua People's Assembly on Monday issued a ruling stating that only native Papuans could run for the posts of…

Sydney – Australia West Papua Association representative Joe Collins has rejected a Sydney-based Lowy Institute paper that argues that…

Jakarta – One of Timika's native tribes, Amungme, filed a civil lawsuit with the South Jakarta District Court on Monday, against PT…

Jayapura – Regional Representatives Council member Sophie Maipauw wants the Indonesian government to help with the implementation of autonomy in…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A planned large-scale food production system in Merauke, Papua province, aimed at improving national food…

The Lowy Institute's latest paper (Indonesia and Australia: time for a step change) on Australian Indonesian relations describes the…

The Vanuatu Free West Papua Association has held a peaceful demonstration in Port Vila in support of West Papua's independence from…

Ricky Binihi – West Papuans highly value their relationship with Vanuatu because of its former traditional staunch position on their plight.

The Vanuatu Free West Papua Association says the government needs to clarify its position on the independence of Papua.

The…

The Australia West Papua Association in Sydney has written an open letter to Prime Minister Rudd asking that he raise the human rights situation…

Suwardiman – After nine years, support by various elements of society for special autonomy (otsus) is weakening. The problematic nature of the…

Ilya Gridneff, Port Moresby – The suspicious death of an Australian journalist filming Papuan guerrillas fighting Indonesia's hardline military…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia has bowed to government pressure on alleged violation of regulations concerning operating in…

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should use his visit to Papua New Guinea next month to discuss ways to work with…

A prominent West Papuan human rights lawyer is using a speaking tour of Australia to promote the need for a peaceful solution to…

Markus Makur, Timika – PT Freeport Indonesia has not helped develop human resources in Papua, particularly in the Amungme and Kamoro tribes, a…

The demonstration which took place yesterday outside the Papua Legislative Assembly building consisted of several groups who had come…

The Vanuatu Free West Papua Association says it hope to re-organise a march in support of independence for the West Papuan people of…

Andreas Harsono – In Jakarta in the late 1960s, a young Barack Obama noticed his stepfather's great unease and silence about his one-year military…

Jakarta – National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang said a group of officers from Papua Police were deployed to pursue…

Jono van Hest – With strictly limited international media access to West Papua, Australian filmmaker Jono van Hest decided that he wanted to help…

Police are investigating whether separatists are responsible for the fatal shooting on Monday of a policeman who was guarding a gas…

The country's easternmost territory has been a bane of security and development for a long time. With Timor Leste separated from the republic and…

Camelia Pasandaran – A controversial nationalist organization got its way on Monday when the Constitutional Court approved part of its judicial…

In the Netherlands, Papuan activist VIktor Kaisiepo has died in his home town of Amersfoort at the age of 61.

Mr Kaisiepo…

Markus Makur and Angela Flassy, Timika/Jayapura – The authorities have increased security measures at mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia by…

Markus Makur, Timika – Around 1,500 Papuans in Mimika staged a rally Wednesday to support the registration of the International Parliamentarians…

Indonesian police are hunting for the gunmen responsible for a shooting near the Freeport mine in Indonesia's majority-Melanesian Papua province.…

Cunding Levi, Jayapura – Linked to terror acts that often happen around the mining area of PT Freeport Indonesia in Tembagapura,…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, Jayapura/Timika – The latest attack against mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua, weeks after the…

Farouk Arnaz & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Free Papua Movement on Tuesday rejected an accusation by the National Police that it was behind…

Baseless accusations have always been directed towards the OPM/TPN when any killings or shootings happened around the mining area. The recent…

Farouk Arnaz – Police claims that the killing of Papuan rebel leader Kelly Kwalik last month would improve security in the province's Timika area…

Farouk Arnaz – Police in Papua have found shell casings during investigations of Sunday's ambush in which nine people traveling in a convoy of US…

Sukmawati, Jakarta – The Peace Institute's Board chairman, Ichsan Melik, said that in the next 10 years Indonesia will become…

A Papua analyst says increasing militarisation of Indonesia's Mimika district and recent actions by police are incendiary for local…

Irawaty Wardany and Novan Iman Santosa, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights has questioned officials from gold and copper mining…