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…

Simon Santow: Indonesia has invited the foreign ministers of four Pacific Island countries to visit its two easternmost provinces – Papua and West…

Ezra Sihite, Bogor, West Java – Visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd reiterated his government's recognition of Indonesia's sovereignty…

This weekend marks the 15th anniversary of the Biak massacre in West Papua, when scores of West Papuans were wounded, arrested or…

A citizens' tribunal is being held at the University of Sydney tomorrow to mark the 15th anniversary of the Biak massacre in West…

Saturday the 6 July marks 15 years since the Indonesian security forces massacred scores of people in Biak, West Papua. The victims, included…

The bid by the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation, or WPNCL, to join the Melanesian Spearhead Group has reignited debate about who…

Saturday, July 6, is the 15th anniversary of one of the worst massacres in Indonesia's post-Suharto history. On that day in 1998, members of the…

Jerry Omona, Jayapura – After just days of the distribution of its first edition, Pelita Papua magazine encountered problems with the…

Jayapura – Two vocal church leaders in Papua, Rev Socratez Sofyan Yoman and Dr Beny Giai held a meeting with the Dutch ambassador, Tjeerd de Zwaan…

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is visiting Indonesia for the third Indonesia-Australia Leaders' Meeting, from 4 to 5 July

No doubt the two main…

Jerry Omona, Jakarta – The Free Papua Movement allegedly raised the Bintang Kejora (Morning Star) flag to commemorate the independence…

Bobby Anderson – Under Papua's 2001 Special Autonomy Law, the majority of Papua's natural resource wealth is returned to the province. The law was…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A group of civilians raised the banned Morning Star (Bintang Kejora) flag in Kampung Wandenggobak, Mulia, Puncak…

Lambertus Pekikir, the leader of Free Papua Movement's (OPM) military wing, the Papua Liberation Army Front (TPN) said that the…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry launched the 12-year compulsory education program on Tuesday, officially named…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The Free Papua Movement (OPM) has claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of an Indonesian Military (TNI)…

A West Papua rebel leader has claimed responsibility for the killing of three Indonesian soldiers.

The claim was made by a…

The many years of lobby by the Independence movement the OPM, a job now carried on by West Papua National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL) has…