During the course of 2010 – 2011, the Indonesian Government has restricted the number of foreign journalists who are given access to enter Papua…

The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) is a vast mega-project, a plan for over a million hectares of plantations and industrialised…

Over 400 Bintang Kejora (Morning Star) flags were flown by scores of people on a demonstration in Tanggal, Serui, West Papua.

According to…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Calls have been aired in Medan, North Sumatra, by the Teacher Eye Drop Community (KAMG) for the government to cancel the…

UA: 109/12 Index: ASA 21/017/2012 Indonesia

Indonesian prisoner of conscience Filep Karma is in urgent need of medical treatment. He…

Steve James, New York – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc whose recent profits were hurt by lower output from its strike-hit Grasberg mine in…

Jakarta – Speaking in Jakarta on Wednesday April 18, Indonesian Military (TNI) headquarters information centre chief Rear Admiral Iskandar…

Farouk Arnaz – A convoy of Freeport Indonesia cars was on Saturday attacked twice on the road linking Tembagapura and the company's Grasberg mine…

13 April, 2012

Rt Hon David Cameron, MP.
Prime Minister,
10 Downing Street
London SW1

Dear Mr Cameron,

TAPOL has been…

The Free West Papua Campaign has condemned Britain's renewal of selling weaponry to Indonesia as "one of the worst outcomes imaginable," while the…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Several unexplained cases of violence involving mysterious snipers are heightening insecurity in Papua, the national…

Banjir Ambarita, Arientha Primanita & Farouk Arnaz – The identity of the gunmen who on Sunday fired machine guns at a commercial plane in…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A top military officer was quick on Wednesday to blame the Free Papua Movement (OPM) for a recent shooting at an…

Rory MacKinnon – David Cameron may have once been a West Papuan hero but activists poured scorn on the PM on Wednesday after he promised their…

Demonstrations were held in Jayapura on April 5 in support of a groundbreaking conference held in The Hague, The Netherlands, to examine pathways…

Arientha Primanita, Farouk Arnaz & Ismira Lutfia – Soldiers may be deployed in Papua to assist the police in the search for the gunmen…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered security forces to intensify and heighten security measures…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Police and soldiers of the Indonesian Armed Forces are combing the hills in Mulia, Papua, after gunmen sprayed an…

Nick Chesterfield – Concern is mounting in Puncak Jaya that an Indonesian military unit of "unknown persons" seeking to create a security crisis…

Gunmen fired on a small plane after it landed in Indonesia's restive Papua region Sunday, killing one passenger and wounding four people including…

Despite the threat of resistance from the KNPB in response to a summons from the police to its chairperson, Buchtar Tabuni, the police…

The Aliansi Demokrasi Untuk Papua – Democratic Alliance for Papua – has called on the Indonesian government and specifically on the police force…

The insistence by the chief of police in Papua that Buchtar Tabuni, the chairperson of KNPB – the National Committee of West Papua – be held…

A former Vanuatu Prime Minister, Barak Sope, has condemned the growing links between Vanuatu and Indonesia, which he says ignores the…

Ricky Binihi – A veteran Vanuatu politician who has relentlessly campaigned for the freedom of Pacific Islanders, former Prime Minister Barak Sope…

While the Australian government is keen to hear about the present situation in West Papua and is hoping to get inputs from a number of sources, in…

There has been growing international interest in the situation in Papua. This is apparent from the fact tht two countries have instructed their…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – In the latest violence against soldiers in the restive province of Papua, an infantry soldier was fatally…

The commander of the district military command in Jayapura denied that any military operations are taking place in Papua. Lieut-Colonel Rano…

Alex Rayfield – Five West Papuans were given jail terms on Friday for peaceful expressions of political opinion. Alex Rayfield reports on a trial…

Natasia Christy Wahyuni – From charges of setting an irrelevant curriculum to corruption allegations, wide-scale cheating in the national exams…

From:

Forkorus Yaboisembut and Edison Waromi, in their own name and on behalf of the West Papuan people.

To:

the Secretary-…

IHRC is shocked that a West Papua court has decided to imprison five West Papuan leaders for their role in organising an entirely peaceful…

Index: ASA 21/011/2012

Indonesian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release five men who have today been sentenced to…

Levi Cunding – An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced five men to three years in jail in the restive Papua region for raising an outlawed…

[Joint Press release by TAPOL, the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Faith-Based Network on West Papua, Franciscans International and the West…

Erwida Maulia – New York-based Human Rights Watch has condemned the Indonesian government for allowing the conviction of five Papuan independence…

Michael Bachelard – Five activists fighting for an independent West Papua will immediately appeal their conviction and imprisonment on treason…

If the Indonesian government wants to make an example out of these people, then it should free them as a symbol of its commitment to free…

Just prior to its Universal Periodic Review before the UN Human Rights Council, Indonesia's commitment to democracy and free speech has been…

Timika – The Indonesian subsidiary of US mining giant McMoRan said on Monday it had resumed operations after a two-week suspension caused by…

Several thousand people crammed the grave site of murdered independence hero Ondofolo Theys Eluay on March 7, to hear resolutions from the Pacific…

An Indonesia soldier shot Thursday morning during a firefight in Puncak Jaya, Papua has died, Indonesian Military (TNI) officials said…

Jayapura – In Papua, the Indonesian army, the TNI, always uses the welfare approach towards the Papuan people, including armed civilians who…

Mrs. Margaret Sekaggya
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders,
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights…

Bearing in mind the continual terrorising of defence lawyers during the makar (treason) trial [now under way in Jayapura] and of human rights…

Cynthia Warwe – Concerns have been raised again over the health of internationally renowned West Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma, after a…

At the latest hearing of the trial of Forkorus Yaboisembut, Forkorus announced that the proclamation of the Federal Republic of West Papua had…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – American mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia (PT FI) has donated Rp 58 billion (US$6.38 million) to the…

West Papua Media and local sources – Confirmed reports have emerged from Fak-Fak, on the west coast of West Papua, that at least ten demonstrators…