Mavuku Tokona – A win for the 'little guys' was marked on the notch of the West Papuan belt as they rallied for a peaceful protest last Friday on…

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has elected the exiled independence leader Benny Wenda as its new leader.

Mr Wenda effectively…

Jakarta – On Friday (01/12), dozens of demonstrators gathered in Central Jakarta to demand West Papuan independence from Indonesia.

Marchers…

The West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence – banned in Indonesia – has been raised on an official local government flagpole in Auckland's…

Hans Arnold Kapisa, Jakarta – The Domberai chapter of the Papuan Customary Council (DAP) in Manokwari held the celebration of the Papua nation's…

Ramadhan, Winna Wijaya, Jakarta – On December 1 several groups held protest actions commemorating the declaration of West Papua's independence and…

Jakarta – Hundreds of people from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) gathered on Jl.…

Dhio Faiz, Jakarta – A demonstration held in Jakarta this morning by hundreds of students and youths from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) and the…

Fred Osifelo – Solomon Islands Solidarity for West Papua joined other groups in the Pacific and around the globe today in raising the West Papuan…

Vanuatu's Prime Minister Charlot Salwai will hand over the title to a plot of land with a building on it to the leaders of the United Liberation…

Demonstrations have been held around the Pacific to mark the anniversary of West Papua's declaration of independence when the Morning Star flag…

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua says Solomon Islands' support for its cause remains firm despite a change in leadership.

The…

Bobby Anderson – Since August, numerous civilians and security staff have been killed or wounded in the Tembagapura area in Indonesian Papua, host…

Members of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua are converging on Vanuatu's capital for their first major summit since the body's…

Makassar, Jubi – A member of Papua Regional Representative Council (DPD-RI) from Papua, Yanes Murib, accused TNI and Police of making public…

Jayapura, Jubi – People's Union Front (FPR) requested for PT Freeport in Tembagapura, Timika to be closed. The request is to restore the rights…

Len Garae – An expected total of 50 West Papuan Leaders from West Papua and beyond and supporters of the Vanuatu Free West Papua Association, are…

Thousands of West Papuans have demonstrated in Jayapura, calling for the closure of the massive Freeport gold mine in Mimika regency.

They'…

Wilda Asmarini, Jakarta – The Ministry of State Owned-Enterprises, tipped to oversee an acquisition of a majority stake in the local unit of…

Pacific Media Watch – The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned a brutal attack against journalist Saldi Hermanto in Timika, Papua,…

Antara, Jakarta – British Ambassador to Indonesia Moazzam Malik has expressed support to Papua Province to remain within the framework of the…

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Anton Hermansyah, Puncak Jaya Mulia – Security concerns following the election riots in Tolikara regency, Papua, are hampering deliveries to…

Rinaldy Sofwan, Jakarta – Philosopher and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Noam Chomsky and a group of international…

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – The truth is, no one knows. Even the bare facts surrounding his disappearance are murky. According to police in…

Timika, Indonesia – U.S. miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc is evacuating spouses and children of workers from its giant Indonesian copper mine after a…

Sam Wanda, Fergus Jensen, Jakarta/Timika – Indonesia on Friday began evacuating villages that authorities said had been occupied by armed…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta – A joint team comprising Indonesian Military and National Police personnel Friday gained control of Banti and Kimbeli…

Tembagapura, Indonesia – Indonesian police said they helped evacuate more than 340 people Friday from villages in easternmost Papua after security…

Jeffrey Hutton – Oktovianus Warnares gathered with five other men outside a government building on the picturesque island of Biak, just off the…

The West Papua National Liberation Army, or TPN, has told villagers in Mimika regency their conflict is not with them but with Indonesian security…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – A member of the Papua Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob), Brig. Firman, was shot and killed by unidentified…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Unidentified gunmen fired at a patrol car owned by PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) in Tembagapura, Mimika regency,…

Sam Wanda, Timika – The Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Inc closed the main access road to its giant copper mine in the eastern province of…

Royson Willie – A West Papuan leader in Vanuatu, Mr Andy Ayamiseba, has publicly on his facebook called for armed resistance in West Papua with…

Lalu Rahadian, Jakarta – Vertical and horizontal conflicts in Papua province will not be resolved until the Indonesian government provides the…

Jayapura – The Papua provincial government has explicitly refuted a statement by the Papua regional police chief that residents have been taken…

Bambang Hari, Jakarta – An employee at the PT Freeport Indonesia gold-and-copper mine in West Papua, Aser Gobai has refuted information that a PT…

An Indonesian human rights lawyer says there is no hostage crisis in the Mimika regency of Papua province as claimed by police and government…

Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – The Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Inc has reopened the main supply route to its huge copper mine in Papua, the…

Jakarta – Authorities in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua are delivering food and aid to villages where security forces say an armed rebel…

Amilia Rosa and Jewel Topsfield, Timika, Papua – A community leader from one of the villages caught up in a conflict inside Papua's giant mining…

Free Papua Organisation (OPM) spokesperson Sebby Sambon denies that his group has acted in a criminal manner by taking hundreds of local people…

Jakarta – Indonesian security forces in the eastern province of Papua are preparing to storm five villages that they say are being held by an…

Jakarta – Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission I Abdul Kharis Almasyhari asserted the hostage of 1,300 citizens conducted by armed…

Amilia Rosa and Jewel Topsfield, Timika, Papua – An armed Papuan group has occupied two villages near the massive Grasberg copper-gold mine as…

Jayapura – Mimika District Police Chief Assistance Superintendent Victor Dean Mackbon has denied that residents of the Kimbely and Banti villages…

Fergus Jensen, Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Sam Wanda, Jakarta/Timika, Indonesian – Armed separatists have occupied five villages in Indonesia's Papua…

Jakarta – A group of gunmen has been laying siege to 1,300 residents in Banti and Kimbely, two villages in Timika, Papua, near Freeport Indonesia'…

Aatai John – The ousted Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare defended his strong stance on the plight of the people of West Papua during the motion of…