Bogor – The momentum in the lead up to Indonesia's 68th Independence Day was used by scores of Papuan students to demand freedom and…

Joel Magarey – Australian and West Papuan activists are set to sail to the disputed Indonesian territory of West Papua without permission.

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Jenny Denton – A group of Australian Aboriginal, non-Indigenous and West Papuan activists will set sail from Cairns for West Papua on Saturday, on…

Jakarta – Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian has announced a plan to conduct a flag-hoisting ceremony on Papua highest peak…

Ezra Sihite & Novy Lumanauw – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has sought to quell growing support for Papuan self-determination among…

Police in Indonesia's Papua region have reportedly banned a number of protests and cultural parades planned to protest against the…

A number of peaceful protests and cultural parades, planned to protest the signing of the New York Agreement on the 15 August 1962 have been…

Semarang – Some 650 military personnel of Infantry Battalion (Yonif) 410/Aloguro left Tanjung Emas Seaport at Semerang, Central Java,…

Jayapura, Papua – A man was wounded after being shot at when trying to grab a weapon of a patrolling police officer in Timika on…

An Indonesian Brimob police officer has shot dead an unarmed mentally ill Lani youth in Wamena on Thursday, after the youth allegedly verbally…

The KNPB (West Papua National Committee) and PNWP (West Papua National Parliament) will march through the streets of West Papua on August 15th on…

Rochelle Jones – West Papua – officially under Indonesian rule since 1963 – is located in the Western half of the island of New Guinea, 250km…

An independence campaigner in Indonesia's remote Papua province says a deadly shooting last week was the fault of Indonesian soldiers…

Jayapura – Papuan indigenous traders are very worried about the fact that they are not able to compete economically because of the arrival in…

A platoon of the Indonesian Police Mobile Brigade, or Brimob, has been deployed to Mulia, in Papua province's Puncak Jaya regency, in…

A Senior Indonesia vice-presidential advisor says the government is serious about protecting human rights in West Papua and Papua provinces.

Alex Rayfield, Yapen – In dramatic scenes outside a remote West Papuan prison, local community leaders on Monday forced the Indonesian police to…

The Hague, West Papua – The Free West Papua Campaign is to open a new office in the Netherlands.

Earlier this year the Campaign…

Banjir Ambarita – An armed civilian group shot at an ambulance carrying a patient in the restive Papua district of Puncak Jaya on Wednesday,…

Jayapura – The Second Secretary for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Jakarta, James P. Feldmeyer, declared that he will pay close attention…

Jayapura – Five Papuan Freedom activists were arrested while taking part in a demonstration on 29 July, in support of the discussion on Self-…

Oxford, UK – Benny Wenda has been many things in his 38 years. Among them, student and activist, prisoner and wanted man, a child of indigenous…

As announced by Mr Herman Wainggai, on Monday 29 July at 11am the West Papuan people will be conducting a peaceful demonstration in the city of…

A newspaper chief editor in West Papua says journalists in the region are pressured by police and government not to publish material…

Members of the House of Lords held a debate about West Papua on Wednesday in which they raised serious concerns about the human rights situation…

A coalition of organisations has requested the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Commission to take action under its Early Warning and…

The Pacific Freedom Forum has condemned the confiscation of a magazine by police in Indonesia's Papua province.

Local police…

The Pacific Freedom Forum says police actions to stop distribution of a new magazine in West Papua break press laws of Indonesia and…

Police actions to stop distribution of a new magazine in West Papua break press laws of Indonesia and must be condemned, says the Pacific Freedom…

Human Rights Watch has voiced alarm at the implications for West Papua from a new law in Indonesia giving the government wide powers to shut down…

Workers at the Indonesian unit of Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc expect to reach an agreement over pay in less than two weeks, a union…

Jayapura – Following the establishment of an OPM office in Oxford, the UK earlier this year, there are now plans to set up an OPM office in The…

Jayapura, Papua – Britain still recognizes Papua as an integral part Indonesia, a British diplomat said.

"We are here this time on a working…

Indonesian and international human rights groups have called questioned Jakarta's commitment to finding a peaceful resolution to the decades-long…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Yuliasri Perdani, Jayapura/Jakarta – As the National Police revised downward the number of victims in the Sunday night…

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa says he supports journalists and non-government organisations having greater access to the country's…

Mettu Badii, Semarang – Scores of students and young people from the group National Papua Solidarity (NAPAS) held a candlelit vigil in front of…

Yogyakarta – Hundreds of demonstrators from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta held a peaceful action and…

Jayapura – The Papua branch of the Indonesian Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI) has said foreign journalists have found difficulties in…

The organisation calling itself the executive government of the Federal Republic of West Papua has sent a letter to the Pacific…

The West Papuan Freedom Flotilla sets out on the first leg of its epic journey from Lake Eyre to the warm waters of Merauke, West Papua on July 16…

Finalia Kodrati, Arie Dwi Budiawati – Papua National Solidarity (NAPAS) is demanding that the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) and…

Simon Santow: Last week, the ABC's stand-in PNG (Papua New Guinea) correspondent Liam Cochrane made a trip to the far north-west of Papua New…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – An unidentified gunman shot a passing motorcycle taxi driver dead in the restive Papua district of Puncak Jaya on…

Jakarta – The Custom Institute of Amungme Tribe (Lemasa) in Papua has called on the central government to involve customary communities in the…

Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc has resumed copper concentrate shipments from its mine in Grasberg, Indonesia, but…

According to several NGOs which are involved in the promotion of human rights in Papua, there has been no change in the human rights situation in…

Ali Akhmad, Jakarta – The Press Council says the ban on the first edition of Papua's Pelita Pelita Magazine is considered as an attempt to block…

Michael Sergel – Asylum seekers and West Papuans were prime time talking points on Australian television last week, as ABC hosted a ground-…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's commitment to help develop Indonesia's easternmost region could instead lead to…