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…

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…

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

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

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

The Humanity Volunteer Team…

Johnny Blades – Papua's provincial government is frustrated over a lack of action by Indonesia's central government to open up direct…

Victor Mambor, Gisela Swaragita and Ardila Syakriah, Jayapura and Jakarta – Despite government efforts to distribute aid for civilians who…

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Volunteers grouped under the Nduga Solidarity Civil Society Coalition reported in a statement on Thursday the deaths…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Papua – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe has issued a regulation to help boost the involvement of Papuan businesspeople in…

Indonesia's military, or TNI, says its soldiers have taken control of an regional headquarters of the West Papua Liberation Army in…

Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers have agreed that alleged human rights violations in West Papua must remain on the agenda of the regional…

Musa Abubar and Eliswan Azly, Jayapura – The Papua Archaeological Center's researcher, Hari Suroto, highlighted the importance of teaching "…

On 17th July 2019, ULMWP Chairman Benny Wenda was granted Freedom of the City of Oxford as a messenger of the West Papuan people, an award…

Patrick Dupont – West Papuan separatist groups have recently united under a single banner. However, internal conflict and a determined Indonesian…

Olivia Tasevski – This year marks 50 years since West Papua was officially incorporated into Indonesia via 1969's ironically named Act of Free…

Jakarta – Gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) sold less copper and gold in the first half of 2019, decreasing to almost half the…

Major palm oil producer Korindo has been found guilty of rainforest destruction and human rights abuses in the Indonesian province of Papua by…

Indonesian logger and palm oil producer, the Korindo Group, is challenging some of the claims by environmental NGO, Mighty Earth.

The NGO…

Benny Mawel, Jayapura – A church group in Papua has called on the Indonesian government to actively seek an end to clashes between the military…

Eight members of Britain's House of Lords want to see their government take a strong stand on press freedom in West Papua.

In…

Febriana Firdaus, Wamena, West Papua, Indonesia – Evidence is emerging that children are joining the long-running conflict in the restive…

Indonesia's government has distributed aid to West Papuans displaced by violence in the Central Highlands.

It comes after a…

David Robie – Indonesia recently hosted a bold public relations window-dressing expo in Auckland presenting itself as a "Pacific" nation while…

Eight members of the House of Lords call on the foreign secretary to take a strong stand against the banning of nearly all foreign media, NGOs…

Benny Mawel, Jayapura – West Papua National Committee (KNPB) congratulate Mr Benny Wenda for receiving the Freedom of Oxford City Council. The…

Siti Sadida Hafsyah, Jakarta – Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) researcher Cahyo Pamungkas says that the Trans Papua Highway has yet to…

Jakarta – Thousands of people in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua have been displaced by fighting between soldiers and separatists, and…

Indonesia has condemned the Oxford City Council for its recognition of West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda.

Mr Wenda…

An aid group says at least 139 people have died in displacement camps in the highlands of West Papua.

But the Indonesian military has…

Yashinta Difa/Azis Kurmala, Jakarta – Indonesia has strongly condemned the Oxford City Council's decision to award Benny Wenda, a member of the…

The Oxford City Council in Britain has awarded United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) chairperson Benny Wenda the Honorary Freedom of…

The exiled leader of an Indonesian separatist group has been awarded the freedom of the city of Oxford.

City councillors honoured West…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura – The Papua administration has requested that the central government assist it in bolstering the trade network with…

Yamin Kogoya, Auckland – More than 50 years of "torture" has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the…

The Oxford City Council is to award West Papuan activist Benny Wenda the Honorary Freedom of the City accolade for his tireless fight for West…

Yamin Kogoya – More than 50 years of torture has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian Government. With the assistance of Western…

Mackenzie Smith – In touting its new "elevated" engagement in the Pacific, Indonesia has been eager to stress it will work within New Zealand and…

Jakarta (Antara) – An anthropology lecturer at the University of Cendrawasih in Jayapura, Hari Suroto expressed his concern over the diminishing…

New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, says Indonesia is making progress in West Papua with the welcoming of a press pack.…

Advocates for West Papua in New Zealand are protesting a major Pacific trade show put on by Indonesia.

About a dozen people…

Zac Williams – The West Papuan independence movement has been ongoing for more than half a century. Since the 1962-1963 Indonesian takeover of…

Winston Peters helped open Pacific Exposition 2019 in Auckland today by showcasing his drumming skills, after giving a speech on New Zealand's…

Melissa Chan-Green – A West Papuan human rights activist has questioned why Indonesia organised an expo for Pacific leaders to gather in Auckland…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura – Local authorities have named six commissioners of the Papua General Elections Commission (KPU Papua) suspects of vote-…

A human rights group advocating for West Papuans in Indonesia says there were more than 20 extra-judicial killings by the military…

There's strong opposition in West Papua to a reconfiguration of military forces in the struggle for independence from Indonesia.

The United…

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge – Blood Diamond, a 2006 Hollywood blockbuster, depicts how the illicit economic activity to secure diamonds in…

Leading West Papuan human rights activist Ferry Marisan has died in Jayapura.

Mr Marisan is well known for his work over two…