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…

John Pakage – On Tuesday morning, 21st February, Courtroom 1A in Jayapura was peaceful but tense. Many soldiers were to be seen guarding the…

Soraya Permatasari – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX) said 32 shooting incidents in almost as many months have hampered operations at…

Labor backbenchers have angrily defied a call by acting Foreign Minister Craig Emerson to boycott a meeting on the disputed province of West Papua…

A New Zealand MP is calling on the government to play a constructive role over dialogue with Indonesia about West Papua.

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Hundreds of people have been calling for the unconditional release of Forkorus Yaboisembut and his four colleagues. A demonstration in Jayapura…

The Australian government has denied any involvement in a regional forum supporting the independence of West Papua from Indonesia that was held in…

Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) is temporarily halting operations at the Grasberg gold and copper mine in Timika, Papua…

Jayapura, Papua – Unable to compete in the acculturation process with other groups, the Sebo tribe in Kayu Pulau, Jayapura, Papua, has become…

The sixth hearing of the trial of Forkorus Yaboisembet and his four colleagues took place on 21 February at which seven witnesses for the…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Dicky Christanto, Papua, Jakarta – Maj. Gen. Erwin Syafitri, the former deputy chief of the Army's Strategic…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Two district head candidates in Puncak Papua were named suspects on Monday by the Papua Police for allegedly inciting…

Jayapura – Thousands of Papuans who are members of the National Committee occupied the building of West Papua People's Assembly in Kotaraja Papua…

Jayapura – Authorities in Indonesia's remote Papua province say they have no plans to make male circumcision mandatory, despite media reports to…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – Students from Papua and West Papua studying in Makassar, South Sulawesi, have protested…

After President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono acknowledged that security forces have committed human rights violations in Papua, Amnesty International…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The death toll from violent clashes between supporters of rival political candidates in Papua's Tolikara district now…

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., the largest publicly traded copper producer, will cooperate with the Indonesian government as it reviews…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Papua has become a general epidemic stage that requires immediate action to prevent…