Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – National Intelligence Agency (BIN) Lt. Gen. Marciano Norman said on Friday law enforcement and military officers had…

Bagus BT Saragih and Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura/Jakarta – Armed groups were believed to have infiltrated cities and towns in Papua as calls for…

Arientha Primanita – The head of Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency has spoken of the need for a sweep of Jayapura for armed civilians…

Credible and trusted West Papua Media sources have provided video clips (below) that show the extent of destruction caused by the rampage of…

Information has been received from human rights sources on Yapen Island alleging that major security sweeps and blockades of villages home to non-…

London – Today UK human rights campaigners called for an immediate ban on all arms sales to Indonesia, following Wednesday's brutal rampage by…

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of 42 prisoners and detainees by…

Index: ASA 21/020/2012

The Indonesian authorities must ensure a prompt, independent and impartial investigation into reports of…

AWPA has written to the Australian Foreign Minister urging that he contact the Indonesian President asking the President to control the security…

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee is calling on the New Zealand Government to respond to the latest escalation of deadly violence and…

Matt Brown, Jakarta and – At least a dozen people have been shot in a string of bloody incidents in Indonesia's Papua province.

While…

Erwida Maulia – Ten people were killed when the Indonesian Military (TNI) opened fire in an alleged retaliatory attack on a village in Wamena,…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Rabby Pramudatama, Jayapura/Jakarta – Two civilians were killed in separate incidents in Papua in separate incidents on…

Camelia Pasandaran & Banjir Ambarita – Violence continued to escalate in Papua on Thursday as gunmen shot a woman and a police officer in the…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Bagus BT Saragih, Jayapura/Jakarta – Violence gripped Papua on Wednesday with a soldier killed and – in separate incidents…

Jakarta – A civil servant of the Cendrawasih Military Command XVII was shot to dead by an unknown assailant in the city of Jayapura,…

Jakarta – Another resident of Jayapura, Papua is dead and is suspected of having being shot and killed at 8:30 a.m. local time on Thursday, barely…

Jakarta – The Jayapura Police finally confirmed on Thursday afternoon that one of their members had killed a resident of Jayapura,…

West Papua Media sources in Serui – Credible but unconfirmed reports have been received by West Papua Media reporting that a major operation is…

A bloody and brutal rampage by Indonesian security forces is currently underway in Wamena, in the Baliem Valley of West Papua, after two soldiers…

Workers at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s Grasberg mine in Indonesia threatened to return to strike as tensions grow following the…

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is urged to immediately appoint members to a dialogue team in order to intensify dialogue with stakeholders…

The human rights activist, Sebby Sambom has declared that the Indonesian government has armed a group of civilian personnel in Papua which have…

Jayapura – According to several journalists working in Serui, Yapen district in Papua, including a journalist from Bintang Papua, they had been…

Ezra Sihite & Farouk Arnaz – Authorities need to quickly arrest the perpetrators of a string of recent shootings in Papua, lawmakers and…

Indonesian diplomacy to allay international concerns about its policy of special autonomy for the province of Papua is slowly bearing fruit,…

Intensification of Indonesian security force repression on Papuan non-violent activists and ordinary villagers is allegedly occurring across Yapen…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Papuan activists and scholars have called on the government to allow the use of the region's traditional symbols…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A joint team of military soldiers and police officers on Tuesday arrested two members of the Free Papua…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The violence in Indonesia's easternmost province appears to be spiralling out of control after an Indonesian and a…

West Papua Media with local sources in Jayapura – Questions are being raised again about the willingness of the Indonesian police in Papua to…

The transitional government declared by the Federated Republic of West Papua organised another peaceful demonstration on May 29, with participants…

At least five countries have used a human rights review at the United Nations to question Indonesia's failure to make any arrests in series of…

London – On May 23rd, the Indonesian government released its annual human rights record for Universal Periodic Review by the UN Human Rights…

Karlis Salna – Indonesia is facing fresh criticism over its human rights record following a year of continued unrest and the jailing of leading…

London – Today, Indonesia's human rights record was reviewed by the UN Human Rights Council during the 13th session of the Universal Periodic…

The recent shooting of five young Papuan men by Indonesian Police is characteristic of the out of control 'State violence' against indigenous…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Police in the violence-wracked town of Mulia in Papua's Puncak Jaya district have confirmed that three civilians were…

Banjir Ambarita – Police from the mobile brigade unit (Brimob) reportedly shot five civilians in Paniai, Papua on Tuesday evening – one victim is…

AWPA is urging the PIF Leaders at their summit in Rarotonga, the Cook Islands:

The separatist group, the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation, has called on Vanuatu to reconsider its foreign policy in…

A West Papuan living in exile in Vanuatu has been arrested along with about two dozen others for protesting against the arrival of an…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua Legislative Council speaker John Ibo, former Papua provincial secretary Andi Baso Basaleng and former Papua…

The High Court in Papua has decided that Forkoruus and his co-defendants should be sentenced to three years, in accordance with the verdict…

Jayapura – Socialization of the Accelerated Development Unit for Papua and West Papua (UP4B) continues to be met with challenge and refusal. After…

At least 42 prisoners – both political and criminal – have been beaten by warders in Abepura Prison where they are being held, These beatings…

The separatist OPM Free West Papua Movement is planning to fly the banned Morning Star flag throughout Indonesia's Papua region for…

The TP/OPM [National Libration Army/Organisasi Papua Merdeka] is planning to fly Morning Star flags throughout the territory of West Papua for…

Tomorrow's EU-Indonesia human rights dialogue should address systematic rights violations in Papua, which remain an ugly stain on the country's…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jayapura/Jakarta – Papuan lawmakers have urged Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi to replace caretaker…