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Arif Gunawan S., Jakarta – Activists are furious, vowing to bring the case to the Constitutional Court, while PT Freeport Indonesia has sent a…

Ajay Kamalakaran – The USSR supported the anti-colonial movement across Asia, and was drawn to Sukarno's quest to liberate the entire East Indies…

Len Garae – The five most prominent Ni-Vanuatu charitable organisations in the country led by the Vanuatu Free West Papua Association (VFWPA),…

Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo said his side planned to improve the distribution of personnel across the country's…

Jakarta – Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan has stressed that the government will require mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia to…

Viriya P. Singgih, Jakarta – The government has reiterated that local miners, particularly nickel, bauxite and copper miners, will be allowed to…

Jayapura, Papua – The Indonesian military plans to develop rice fields in the remote district of Nabire in the country's eastern province of Papua…

Matt Connors – They gathered on Biak, a small island nestled in the crystalline waters of Cenderawasih Bay.

In July 1969, hundreds of stoic…

The chair of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, the Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare, today starts a tour of the member states'…

Pontianak, W Kalimantan – Police have sent more unit of its mobile brigade to Papua to maintain security in the country's easternmost province of…

Jakarta – Vidhyandhika D. Perkasa, an expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, or CSIS, has said President Joko "…

Lita Aruperes, Manado – The detention of four students from Papua who have been accused of treason by Manado Police, has been extended to Feb. 17…

Jakarta – The hoisting of a separatist Free Papua Movement flag at the Indonesian Consulate General in Melbourne on Friday was a crime that had to…

Sheany, Jakarta – Spokesman of the Indonesian Embassy in Australia Sade Bimantara said on Saturday (07/01) that an investigation into a breach at…

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Indonesia has condemned the flying of a Papuan Morning Star flag on the premises of an Indonesian mission in Melbourne,…

Rachael Hocking – A West Papuan activist has described Indonesia as 'hyper-sensitive,' for its decision to suspend a language-training programme…

Len Garae – The Chairman of Vanuatu Free West Papua Organisation, Pastor Allan Nafuki, has expressed utter disappointment at leaders of the…

Differences in approach between Indonesian and West Papuan representatives reached a head at Melanesian Spearhead Group meetings in Vanuatu last…

Len Garae – The Melanesian Spearhead Group Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting at the Secretariat in Port Vila this week has not dealt with…

Nauru's government has confirmed that an Indonesian government delegation visited the country this month.

An official with Indonesia's…

Four more people have been charged with treason after demonstrating for West Papuan self-determination on Monday.

Monday, which was the 55th…

Dan McGarry – Vanuatu Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai, was cheered by approximately 50 leaders of West Papua who are currently in Port Vila, when…

Over 500 people were reportedly arrested from West Papua demonstrations in Indonesia.

The Jayapura demonstration was one of more than 14…

Moses Ompusunggu and Lita Aruperes, Jakarta/Manado – Jakarta is continuing its strong handed approach to Papua and West Papua, the country's…

There were over 500 reported arrests from West Papua demonstrations in Indonesian cities yesterday.

The demonstrations were calling for self…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Jakarta-based human rights watchdog Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Elsam) and its local partner in…

There are signs of more imminent arrests of West Papuan demonstrators in towns across Indonesia's Papua region.

The West Papua National…

Despite facing the constant threat of violence and arrest for calling for greater autonomy and an end to rights abuses by Indonesian security…

Jakarta – Papuan and non-Papuan activists held a march in Jakarta on Monday to demand that the United Nations (UN) respond to the current heated…

Manado, North Sulawesi – The Manado Police arrested more than 70 Papuan students who were about to stage a rally on Monday, accusing them of…

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesian police have detained dozens of people ahead of a West Papua independence protest on Monday.

At least 200…

Six members of the KNPB were arrested in Nabire on Friday the 16 December.

Four members were arrested at the Police station when they went…

Eddie Osifelo – Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has include Micronesia, Polynesia, and African…

Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – Chappy Hakim, a retired air force chief who says he knows next to nothing about mining, now heads Indonesia's biggest…

Jakarta – Indonesian ambassador-designate to New Zealand, Tantowi Yahya, has made it his mission to inform the people of the South Pacific nation…

Just five months before Indonesia is set to host UNESCO's 2017 celebration of World Press Freedom Day, its government still has not met a regional…

A conference of indigenous Papuans affected by the forestry, plantation and mining industries was held in Sorong on 2nd and 3rd December 2014, a…

Last weekend at least six thousand West Papuans demonstrated in the town of Wamena to mark Human Rights Day.

It was the latest in a series…

Colette Davidson – When journalist and media activist Victor Mambour wants information from inside Papua, Indonesia, he knows how to get it – he…

About a dozen West Papuan activists were arrested and released twice within two days in the capital of Indonesia's Papua province.

On Friday…

Papua New Guinea's opposition leader says his country and Australia need to play a greater role in responding to human rights abuses in…

At least 6000 West Papuans are estimated to have demonstrated in the Papuan Highlands town of Wamena to mark Human Rights Day at the weekend.

United Liberation Movement for West Papua leaders have been in New York this week, lobbying at the United Nations about their self-determination…

Viriya P. Singgih, Jakarta – Gold and copper mining giant Freeport Indonesia has yet to realize its commitment to build a smelter in Indonesia in…

There have been more mass arrests in Indonesia of those participating in rallies for West Papuan self-determination.

Over two hundred people…

Mehulika Sitepu, Indonesia – Police used water cannons to disperse a rally by Papuan near the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta on…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Lawyers for protesters attending a West Papua liberation rally in Jakarta on Thursday have accused police officers of…

Events held in the cities of West Papua to mark the anniversary of the Papuan nationalist day mainly took the form of prayer events.

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A former Vanuatu prime minister Barak Sope wants Vanuatu to become a member of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation to counter…