UCAN – An Indonesian priest in Papua has joined rights activists in filing a judicial review of the country's treason law in the Constitutional…

Yanto Awerkion, a West Papuan local independence leader, remains imprisoned after being arrested the Indonesian security services for collecting…

The Indonesia government says claims of mass arrests of West Papuans in the past two weeks are wrong.

Earlier this week the Australia West…

Jakarta – Authorities have charged Papua Governor Lukas Enembe with allegedly persuading residents to vote for one of the candidates in the…

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua legislator criticized a framing made by an online media in Jakarta toward an involvement of Free Papua Organization (OPM)…

Indonesia says it will invite the head of mining giant Freeport McMoRan Inc to Jakarta this month to try to settle a festering dispute over a new…

Jayapura, Jubi – Director of the Papua Policy and Human Rights Advocacy Association (PAK-HAM), Matius Murib, admitted that there is no significant…

The Australia West Papua Association is pushing for action from Canberra over another bout of mass arrests of West Papuans in neighbouring…

Hundreds of KNPB activists of the Nabire region were arrested and transported into truck Nabire Police in Bukit Meriam witnessed by a Papuan mama…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-072-2017

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a…

Paniai, Jubi – Hundreds of West Papua National Committee (KNPB) activists in Nabire, West Papua, have reportedly being arrested by the Nabire…

Viriya P. Singgih, Jakarta – Gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia is upbeat that it can settle its disputes with the government over its…

Jakarta – Hundreds of members and sympathizers of the Free Papua Organization, or OPM, have declared support for the Indonesian government – a…

Setiawan Adiwijaya, Jakarta – Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry special staff Hadi M. Djuraid said that the government has yet to make any…

Benny Mawel, Jayapura – A Papuan bishop has warned people that selling their land for money risks not only their future but also their cultural…

Jakarta – Opposing parties of the Puncak Jaya regional elections have agreed to end a conflict in the region, marked by a "breaking arrow" ritual…

Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has sent a warning letter to gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia after it laid off 4,…

Fransiska Nangoy, Jakarta – Thousands of mine workers at the Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Inc will extend their strike for another month to…

Wamena, Jubi – A police officer in Wamena, Jayawijaya allegedly mistreated a minor, Friday afternoon, June 16, 2017. As a result the victim named…

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua House of Representative Commission I in charge of government, politics, law and human rights urged PT Freeport Indonesia to…

Fardah, Jakarta – Over the past several years, labor strikes have hit PT Freeport Indonesia (FI), but the subsidiary of the US mining giant…

All five bishops serving in Indonesia's Papua and West Papua provinces have come under fire from indigenous Papuan Catholics for "staying silent"…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-055-2017

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Press Legal…

Jakarta – The government and Freeport Indonesia are still not in agreement over several aspects of the latter's contract of work (CoW) conversion…

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has urged Indonesia's government to put words into action about helping the Pacific with climate…

Eman Riberu, Merauke – A local government's decision in Papua to pull licenses for a number plantation companies has won overwhelming backing from…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-052-2017

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the…

Johnny Blades – Even before the Indonesian ambassador took up the position, an interview with him was inevitable.

Tantowi Yahya declared…

Stephen Wright, Jakarta, Indonesia – A major church in Indonesia's predominantly Christian Papua province said a riot in the provincial capital…

Vilimaina Naqelevuki, Suva – Media access to West Papua, where more than half a million of its indigenous people have reportedly been killed over…

Indonesia's new ambassador to New Zealand says the indigenous population of Papua region is not pushing for independence.

Tantowi Yahya says…

Indonesia's new ambassador to New Zealand says issues of importance to Pacific Island countries are his country's concerns too.

According to…

A former Vanuatu prime minister, Barak Sope, says he is confident West Papua will become independent from Indonesia.

Mr Sope, who had been a…

Indonesian officials say no bibles were burnt in an incident last week which preceded unrest in the Papua provincial capital Jayapura.

On…

Antara, Timika – Mimika Police in Papua have arrested a coordinator of a petition declaration and communal prayer held at the West Papua National…

Kendall Hutt, Auckland – Political support in New Zealand for an independent West Papua is growing after a "historic declaration" was signed…

Production has been hit at the massive Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province as more than 9,000 workers stage an extended strike.

The…

This statement has been written by West Papuan Independence Leader Benny Wenda after Indonesian police officers brutally tortured Nareki Kogoya…

Susan Taylor, Toronto – Freeport McMoRan Inc said on Thursday that mining and milling rates at its Grasberg copper mine in Papua, Indonesia have…

There's been more deadly violence in Indonesia's Papua province. The body of a 45-year old woman from Maluku province was discovered outside a…

Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Samuel Wanda, Jakarta/Timika – An estimated 9,000 workers at the giant Grasberg copper mine operated by Freeport…

Two cases of violence against journalists in Papua in the past week highlight the empty promise of Press Law protections in Indonesia's…

The Indonesian government needs to change the policy of development which makes Papuan community a subject, says a non-government organisation…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Representatives of many societal elements in Papua have called for the disbandment of a hard-line Islamic…

Christian leaders from the Guild of Papuan Churches have rallied against growing radicalism in Indonesia which they claim has penetrated the…

Timika, Papua – Gold and copper mining firm PT Freeport has reportedly laid off 840 employees for going on strike in Timika, Papua province, some…

Jayapura, Jubi – Laurenzus Kadepa, Papua legislator has called for a referendum in Papua to prove the results of a Political Indicator survey that…

Indonesian immigration authorities have deported a group of six Japanese filmmakers from Papua for allegedly misusing their visas.

The head…

Indonesia has disputed reports that this month's African, Caribbean and Pacific meeting featured discussion about West Papua.

The ACP…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Thousands of citizens of Jayapura in Papua have joined waves of national and international support for the…