Elisabeth Oktofani – Unions both local and international have voiced support for their colleagues in Papua and defended wage demands by striking…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) has reported payments of security funds by PT Freeport Indonesia to the police from…

Jakarta – Human rights watchdog Imparsial has criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his slow response to the Papua conflict,…

Banjir Ambarita – The separatist group that claimed responsibility for the shooting death of a subdistrict police chief in Papua has…

Banjir Ambarita, Ezra Sihite & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Police have set a deadline of today for thousands of striking workers at Freeport-…

Renewed demonstrations are being held in Jayapura today demanding Indonesia take formal and legal responsibility for ongoing human…

Jayapura – Renewed demonstrations are being held in Jayapura today demanding Indonesia take formal and legal responsibility for ongoing human…

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – The government is sending the deputy minister for mineral resources to Papua with orders to get the Freeport mine…

The union representing striking Freeport Indonesia mine workers in Timika, Papua, is claiming that a number of police armored vehicles and heavy…

Rizky Amelia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The recent admission by the National Police chief that the police were receiving money from Freeport…

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has demanded that the government change its security…

Jakarta – Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to investigate reported millions of US…

Jakarta – As violence escalates in Papua, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is ready to deploy his special team on Papua, established on Sept. 20…

Agus Triyono & Banjir Ambarita – Rights activists announced on Friday that an investigation has led them to believe that police have involved…

Unknown assailants fired shots at two police trucks that were traveling near Freeport McMoRan's gold and copper mine in Timika, Papua…

Jakarta – Former state secretary under former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid, Bondan Gunawan, says he believes the daily allowances that PT…

A New Zealand opposition MP wants Kiwi police to leave the Indonesian province of Papua. They are there to train their local counterparts in the…

Papuans peacefully calling for independence does not justify a deadly crackdown. President Yudhoyono has an opportunity to show Papuans that he…

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo on Friday admitted that his institution had accepted money from PT Freeport to each…

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police Chief said on Friday that tens of million of dollars funneled to his institution by mining giant Freeport…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Golkar Party chief Aburizal Bakrie warned the international community against intervening in Papua,…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Nani Afrida, Jakarta/Jayapura – Economic development that is supposed to help lift Papua from protracted poverty is at risk…

Human Rights Watch has called for the president to establish an independent investigation into the deaths of protesters and the…

Farouk Arnaz – The police admitted on Friday what much of the country has long known that they accepted millions of dollars from Freeport…

Jakarta – Pay talks between Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold and a union representing striking workers at its Indonesia mine are deadlocked…

Depok, West Java – Australian Ambassador to Indonesia Greg Moriarty is of the opinion that the conflict in Papua is a bid challenge for the…

International pressure is mounting for Indonesia to address growing unrest and violence in its Papua region.

The call comes after a week in…

Six people have died in shootings after the West Papuan Independent Movement declared independence, which Indonesia describes as an act of treason…

Netty Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Following the eruption of violence in Papua over the past two months that has claimed eight lives, Pater Neles…

Arya Dipa and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – The Free Papua Movement (OPM) denied that the organization was behind the killing of Mulia Police chief…

The convener of the New Zealand parliamentary support group for West Papua says the government should review its role training…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Legislators threw staunch criticism at the government on Thursday, accusing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of…

Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has largely avoided responding to claims of a heavy-handed security crackdown in Papua…

Banjir Ambarita, Dessy Sagita & Ezra Sihite, Jayapura – A pro-independence Papuan group has claimed responsibility for the killing of the…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The international spokesperson of the Free Papua Movement (OPM), John Otto Ondawame, did not directly confirm, when…

Olivia Rondonuwu – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold declared force majeure on some concentrate sales from its strike-hit Grasberg mine in Papua…

Komnas HAM, the National Commission for Human Rights, has urged the police in Papua to respect the rights of the six persons who were arrested…

Jakarta – An armed group launched yet another attack at around midnight on Tuesday near the mining site of PT Freeport Indonesia in…

Bagus BT Saragih and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The National Police have increased the security status of Puncak Jaya regency in Papua and…

In light of the dangerously deteriorating situation in West Papua AWPA has again written to the Foreign minister (letter below) urging him to use…

Banjir Ambarita, Farouk Arnaz & Ronna Nirmala, Jayapura & Jakarta – The National Police are on the highest alert in Papua after the latest…

Farouk Arnaz – Separatist groups in Papua behind several hit and run attacks that have left police and military members dead and…

The Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect appeals to the Indonesian government to show leadership in protecting and upholding…

Jakarta – In contrast to its comparative silence over to the recent fatal shooting of several Papuan workers and demonstrators, the…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – Armed violence in restive Papua claimed another victim on Monday when two men gunned down a police officer in…

Setyo Budi – Workers at West Papua's Grasberg mine have been in intense negotiations for wage increases with Freeport Indonesia management since…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Human rights groups said on Monday that there were "strong indications" that security forces committed rights abuses…

Ronna Nirmala & Anita Rachman – Twelve people have been killed in the past two weeks in restive Papua province, but an analyst suggests that…

Jayapura – A member of the Provincial Legislative Assembly of Papua, the DPRP, had called for the Chief of Police in Papua and Commander of the…

Jakarta – Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said the recent shooting incidents in Papua were categorized as a public security threat and…