Cath Hart – The only West Papuan refused protection in Australia among a group of 43 asylum-seekers could have the decision overturned when his…

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – Lawmakers should summon top Freeport executives to explain the alleged environmental damage and human rights abuses…

Rohan Pearce – While not many details about the "security treaty" being negotiated between Canberra and Jakarta have been made public, the Howard…

Sydney – Australia on Wednesday denied refugee status to the last member of a group of 43 asylum seekers from the restive Indonesian province of…

Australia West Papua Association spokesperson Joe Collins expressed grave concerns at the proposed new security treaty with Indonesia…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The government plans to issue a new regulation to ensure the trillions of rupiah entering Papua under special autonomy is…

Jakarta – Two supporters of a former Jayawijaya regent died following a clash with the police in Papua on Monday, after they tried to prevent the…

Jakarta – Two people were killed and six injured Monday after police clashed with villagers defending a district chief charged with…

Scott Burchill – The arrival of 43 West Papuan asylum seekers in northern Australia earlier this year pressed the pause button on the cosy…

Kylie Williams, Canberra – International human rights groups have lodged a formal protest over Australia's tough new immigration laws in a letter…

Lloyd Jones, Port Moresby – A Papuan woman who says she fled to PNG after Indonesian intelligence officers forced her to plead for her daughter's…

Cath Hart and Samantha Maiden – A Papuan student activist was allegedly stabbed to death by Indonesian police after he was caught trying to flee…

Reporter: Steve Marshall

Tony Jones: Lateline can reveal disturbing claims tonight by a Papuan woman who says she was forced by Indonesian…

M. Taufiqurrahman and T.B. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – The tailing system used by PT Freeport Indonesia in its operation in Timika, Papua, has…

In a letter to Prime Minister John Howard, 47 organizations based in eight countries today urged the Australian government "to uphold its…

Alex Bainbridge, Sydney – Sixty supporters of West Papuan self-determination held a flag-raising ceremony outside the Indonesian…

John Kerin and Tracy Sutherland – The Prime Minister has faced a party-room backlash over planned migration zone changes designed to discourage…

Reporter: Steve Marshall

Mark Colvin: Few issues are more sensitive for Australian foreign policy than the Indonesian province of Papua, the…

Sarah Smiles – The Indonesian Government has accused two Deakin University academics of promoting separatism in West Papua and warned that the…

Indonesia has frozen ties with two Australian universities, accusing their academics of supporting Papuan separatism.

A spokeswoman for the…

Sydney – Editorial independence and journalist safety are at risk in Papua, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), after 50…

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – The environmental damage caused by PT Freeport Indonesia's Grasberg mine in Papua province is much worse than…

Melbourne – Indonesian Environment Forum (WALHI) yesterday launched a damning environmental report on the Rio Tinto joint venture at the Freeport…

Pip Hinman – An Australian coalition of West Papua support groups has asked the UN to list West Papua as a non-governing territory requiring a…

Jakarta – Environmental damage caused by Freeport's huge gold and copper mine in Indonesia's remote Papua province is much worse than previously…

Rob Taylor, Jakarta – The giant Freeport gold mine blamed for a slew of environmental and social catastrophes in Papua is causing far greater…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Around 500 people, consisting of freedom fighters, war veterans, and their children and grandchildren commemorated…

Executive Summary

This report presents a new and independent picture of the environmental impacts of the Freeport mine, a Freeport…

Sydney – Australia needs to do more to help Papua attain independence, but the decision to grant bridging visas to 42 asylum seekers has put the…

Greens leader Bob Brown has called for the resignation of Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone after she accused Papuan separatists of racism.…

West Papua solidarity groups today welcomed law firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques's legal action against the Howard Government and claim the…

Louise Dodson and Mark Forbes, Jakarta – Australia is ready to offer economic aid to help Indonesia smooth the introduction of Papuan autonomy, as…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – "You should send the Australian military into Papua. Why not? The sooner the better. It would be a humanitarian…

Mark Forbes – Indonesia's ambassador to Australia has blamed the Uniting Church for fomenting unrest in West Papua and criticised Canberra's…

Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kim Beazley have misjudged public support for Papuan independence, The Greens said.

Greens…

Reporter: Alexandra Kirk

Eleanor Hall: To tensions with Indonesia now and the Prime Minister has this morning discounted an opinion poll,…

Jakarta – A prestigious American think tank is urging the Indonesian government to make use of a "window of opportunity" to resolve unrest in…

Jakarta – Indonesia denied Tuesday that its military had pressured the mother of a four-year-old Papuan asylum seeker into demanding that…

Pandaya, Banda Aceh – Teen pop icons Raja and Ratu's joint concert turned Banda Aceh upside down last month. The partitions erected to segregate…

Jakarta – Nineteen people are still on the run following last month's riots in Indonesia's Papua province in which six people were killed, police…

Saffron Howden and Adam Gartrell, Canberra – The federal government's tough new asylum-seeker regime has been condemned as an act of moral…

Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Jakarta – It is naive to think that the country's top circle of political-security decision makers could so easily lead…

Max Lane, Sydney – The arrival of 43 Papuan refugees in Australia followed soon after by the violent dispersal of otherwise peaceful student…

Markus Makur, Timika – The National Commission on Human Rights urged Mimika regency administration and mining company PT Freeport Indonesia to pay…

John Martinkus – I was last in Papua early in 2003, reporting on the rise of Islamic militia groups aligned with the Indonesian Army on the PNG-…

Tiarma Siboro and Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta/Papua – Security authorities suspect "outside elements" may have been involved in Monday's deadly…

Sarah Stephen – Soon after the federal government's decision to grant 42 West Papuan asylum seekers temporary protection visas, an April 2…

Max Lane – On April 5, the Papuan People's Assembly (MRP) issued a resolution calling for the closure of the huge Freeport mine, a demand that had…

Hugh White – Australia's debate over Papua in the past fortnight has fallen into the ruts worn in our national consciousness by East Timor. We…

Jakarta – The Indonesian military is stirring up unrest and intimidating residents in the remote province of Papua, an independence campaigner…