Jakarta – Recent violence in Papua in July and August underscores the urgent need for the government to reassess its military approach and place…

There are allegations about [multinational private security corporation] SecuriCor led [at Freeport] by someone called Ian Church being involved…

Jayapura – As the UN General Assembly begins today (21/9) in New York, Indonesia will be in front line of supporting Palestinian efforts to become…

Paris-Jakarta-Bangkok – The recent spike in violent incidents in Papua in July and August underscore the urgent need for Jakarta to re-assess its…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta/Jayapura – A workers' union of gold and copper mining producer PT Freeport Indonesia has denied…

Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia president director and CEO Armando Mahler said that the company had decided not to pay the salaries of…

Rangga D. Fadillah and Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta/Jayapura – Freeport employees on strike over wage increase demands claimed they had been…

Samuel Wanda and Olivia Rondonuwu, Timika, Indonesia – Energy minister Darwin Zahedy Saleh said Indonesia is losing $6.7 million from revenue…

A report has been released following a joint investigation into the mistreatment and torture of a group of 15 Papuans in connection with two…

Hundreds of paramilitary police have been sent to Indonesia's Papua province after 9,000 mining workers started a month-long strike for higher…

Timika, Indonesia – Thousands of workers at Freeport-McMoran's gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia began a monthlong strike Thursday over a…

Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-041-2011

Dear friends,

The Manokwari district court in West Papua has sentenced two peaceful…

Jayapura – The Papua Police have dispatched 114 police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel to Timika to heighten security ahead of a…

Thousands of workers at Freeport McMoRan's giant gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia prepared to go on a month-long strike over wages at…

Investing in conflict-affected and high-risk areas is a growing concern for responsible businesses and investors. Often times companies based…

Jayapura – Mufriadi, a journalist with TOP TV Papua, was reportedly beaten by the South Sorong regent while he was covering a rally…

A massive upsurge in "mysterious acts of violence" around the Jayapura region of West Papua has many local observers blaming Indonesian…

Once again, violence has been used in Papua, this time against a television journalist working for the local TV station in South Sorong, TOP TV.…

Although thirteen of the fifteen Papuans who were arrested on 31 August have since been released, the National Human Rights Commission's (Komnas…

A group of Papuan independence activists in Auckland are hoping Pacific leaders have heard their calls for self-determination and the…

Jayapura – Police have detained two people identified as EK,17, and PK,19, for their alleged involvement in several murders in…

As security in West Papua deteriorates, local groups have stepped up their calls for dialogue with Jakarta. Joe Collins from the Australia West…

Jakarta – Jayapura district police have been accused of torturing 15 witnesses who were initially suspected of being members of the Free Papua…

KontraS condemns the appalling practices of torture and criminalisation which were perpetrated by the law enforcement agencies against of a number…

Max Lane – I was very active between 1991 and 1999 in the international solidarity movement for Timorese independence. During that time, I worked…

David Adam Stott – "Where it cuts across the island of New Guinea, the 141st meridian east remains one of colonial cartography's more arbitrary…

The Pacific Islands Forum is being told it must speak out about the ongoing instability in the Indonesian region of Papua.

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At the the 42nd Meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to be held in Auckland next week, AWPA calls on the PIF leaders to grant observer…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-150-2011

Dear friends,

The Jayapura regional police in West Papua have charged eight medical…

Maire Leadbeater – The Melanesian people of West Papua, neighbours to Papua New Guinea, say they belong to the Pacific region and that it is their…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Jayapura City Police have named Julius Wenda, 32, a resident of Kotaraja, Abepura, a suspect in connection with…

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – It is a seemingly unending conflict in a part of the world famous for both its awesome remoteness and the incredible…

Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday urged Indonesia to free a Papuan activist jailed for staging a peaceful protest and raising an…

Index: ASA 21/027/2011

Papuan activist Melkianus Bleskadit has been imprisoned in West Papua province for his involvement in a…

London – After the mass mobilization of the people of Papua on 2nd August 2011, and the conference of the International Lawyers on West Papua (…

Dance Yanu has been sentenced to seven months and 16 days by a judge at the Manokwari court after being found guilty of makar (…

There are fears that the prospects for peace in the land of Papua will becoming increasing difficult for three reasons. The first is the…

An Indonesian Military officer stationed in Papua was stabbed to death by unknown attackers on Tuesday.

Capt. Tasman, 53, from…

Washington – More than two dozen US lawmakers on Monday urged Indonesia to free Papuan activist Filep Karma, saying that his detention raised…

The Papuan National Liberation Army, the military wing of the OPM has condemned the shooting dead in Arso 14, district of Keerom of a Papuan named…

Jakarta/Brussels – A spike in violence in Indonesian Papua over the last two months underscores the urgency of exploring new ideas to address…

Today, a bipartisan group of 26 members of the United States House of Representatives, led by Reps. Joseph Pitts (R-PA) and James Moran (D-VA)…

Elisabeth Oktofani – The government must quickly set up a long-awaited body to oversee political and economic development in the restive province…

A national reconciliation team of the West Papuan people consisting of a number of organisations that have been outspoken in their views about the…

Ronna Nirmala & Banjir Ambarita – Prominent human rights activists urged the government on Sunday to hold immediate talks with people in…

UA: 251/11 Index: ASA 21/025/2011 Indonesia Date: 19 August 2011

Papuan political prisoner Kimanus Wenda is in urgent need of medical…

Nick Chesterfield and local sources – Indonesian Police and Army from a joint taskforce opened fire on a car of West Papua independence activists…

Melkianus Bleskadit was sentenced yesterday in Manokwari court to two years for his role when the 14-star flag was raised.

A day earlier,…

Congress of the United States Washington, DC 20515

August 19, 2011

Dr. H Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
President of the Republic of…

Jakarta – A group of armed men launched attacks in the Papua regency of Paniai as Indonesia celebrated on Wednesday its 66th…