Muhammad Irfan, Jakarta – Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) Coordinator Yati Andriani is calling on President Joko…

Nedi Putra AW, Jakarta and Malang, East Java – Regional leaders and authorities have scrambled to diffuse tensions stemming from the recent…

Jakarta (Antara) – The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) researcher on Papuan studies, Rosita Dewi, assessed the non-completion of several…

Jakarta – East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parwansa has apologized on behalf of the people of his province after racial abuse of Papuan students…

Jakarta – At least 258 inmates detained in Sorong Penitentiary in West Papua have escaped their prison cells after the building caught on fire…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is set to visit Papua and West Papua following rioting that broke out in the provinces' capitals on…

Jakarta – The National Police have called on the public to refrain from sharing unverified information about the riots in Papua, as authorities…

Helen Davidson and Ben Doherty – The Indonesian president has called for calm after days of violent protests against and by ethnic West Papuans…

Telly NathaliaJakarta – Alleged racism and police brutality against Papuan students in East Java on Saturday triggered violent protests in cities…

Ben Doherty and agencies – Protestors in the West Papuan provincial capital of Manokwari have set fire to the local parliament building after a…

Tasha Wibawa – Indonesian police have defended their decision to storm into a dormitory of West Papuan students alongside the nation's military,…

Johnny Blades – Large public demonstrations are underway in cities in West Papua after the reported harassment of Papuans in Indonesia over…

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Tabita Diela, Jakarta – Indonesia's police chief said on Monday that authorities in the easternmost Papua region were…

Febriana Firdaus, Jakarta, Indonesia – Large demonstrations in Indonesia's West Papua region have turned violent as thousands of protesters,…

Following yesterday's events in West Papua Province, during which the local parliament building and a penitentiary were burned down and homes…

Nurhadi, Jakarta – Indonesian National Police (Polri) Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian expressed anguish over the riots that broke out in Manokwari,…

Kukuh S. Wibowo, Jakarta – Public defender of the Surabaya Legal Aid (LBH), Sahura, said that the situation around the Papuan students' dormitory…

Medan/Bandung/Jakarta – Scores of student from Papua studying in the North Sumatra city of Medan have protested the persecution, intimidation and…

Makassar – Students living at the Papuan dormitory in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar clashed with a group of people from an…

Adi Ahdiat, Jakarta – The Papua Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) says that since the beginning of Indonesian independence up until now, the country has…

Helen Davidson – Indonesian authorities raided a university dormitory in Surabaya on Saturday and arrested dozens of West Papuan students after a…

Hengky Yeimo, Jayapura – Scores of Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) members in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta held a spontaneous action in…

Ghinan Salman, Surabaya – As many as 43 Papuan students were taken to the district police headquarters after police fired teargas and forced…

An Indonesian lawyer says more than 150 West Papuan independence activists were arrested on Thursday.

Veronica Koman says 65…

Nic Maclellan in Funafuti, Tuvalu – Members of the Pacific Islands Forum have urged Indonesia to take action on human rights violations in West…

Leaders of Pacific Islands Forum countries and territories want Indonesia to allow a team from the UN Human Rights Commissioner's office to visit…

Jakarta – The Papuan student dormitory in the Kalasan area of the East Java city of Surabaya was besieged by hundreds of people from various…

David Sobolim, Jayapura – Papuan students from the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Semarang and Salatiga Papuan Student…

Kate Lyons in Funafuti and Ben Doherty – The United Nations high commissioner for human rights should investigate the deteriorating human rights…

Darmadi Sasongko – A protest action on Thursday August 15 by the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (…

An Indonesian lawyer says police have arrested dozens of West Papuan independence activists in Jayapura.

Demonstrators took to…

Yudha Baskoro – Papuan activists marched in Central Jakarta on Thursday to mark the 56th commemoration of the United Nations-brokered…

Adi Ahdiat, Jakarta – The Nduga Regency Humanitarian Team has again called on the government to withdraw Indonesian military (TNI) and police…

Indonesia has complained to the Pacific Islands Forum secretariat over West Papuan leader Benny Wenda's participation at this year's…

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – The police have confirmed the death of a police investigator in Papua after he was taken hostage by an armed group on…

Maire Leadbeater – The Pacific Islands Forum holds its annual meeting this week. Usually the leaders manage to avoid mention of the desperate…

Ben Doherty – Human rights violations and political independence in West Papua are set to command debate at this week's Pacific Islands Forum (…

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge – After eight months of the armed conflict between Indonesian security forces and West Papuan pro-independence…

A Polish man jailed for treason in West Papua is to appeal his conviction and sentence in Indonesia's Supreme Court.

Jakub…

Timika, Papua – The Indonesian military (TNI) and Papua police will take necessary precautionary measures against security…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – In a bid to give foreign media access to reporting about Papua, the Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) has…

The governor of Papua New Guinea's capital district wants Indonesia to allow West Papua to undertake an independence referendum.

In a…

Jakarta – The TNI member, identified only as DAT, was arrested in Sorong, West Papua, on Aug. 4 after being named on the most-wanted…

Next week Pacific leaders will discuss West Papua at their annual Forum. This year there is great hope that the Communique will include a call…

Robert Isidorus, Jakarta – Three soldiers have been arrested for allegedly selling ammunition to a criminal group while stationed in Timika,…

Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)PO Box 28, Spit Junction, NSW 2088

Senator the Hon Marise Payne
Minister for Foreign Affairs…

Keith Loveard, Jakarta – Construction workers building a bridge as part of the Trans-Papua Highway late last year knew there was a separatist…

Johnny Blades – One of the criticisms of the Pacific Islands Forum over the years relates to the regional grouping's limited ability to advance…

An aid group in Indonesia's West Papua has reported 182 civilians have died fleeing violence in the highlands.

The Humanity Volunteer Team…

Jakarta – Nduga Regent Yairus Gwijangge has asked for help from House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Bambang Soesatyo to covey to President…