Leaders of Melanesian Spearhead Group countries have referred a West Papuan application for full membership in the group to its secretariat for…

Len Garae – The four West Papuan official representatives of United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) led by Chairman Benny Wenda, have…

Indonesia has warned Melanesian Spearhead Group member states against meddling in other countries' affairs.

The warning was delivered by the…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Zely Ariane, an editor at the Tabloid Jubi newspaper in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua, gets frustrated…

The West Papua National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of an Indonesian soldier in Papua province…

A measles and malnutrition crisis has killed at least 72 people, mostly children, in Indonesia's remote province of Papua, home to the world's…

Damien Kingsbury, Jakarta, Jubi/Crikey – West Papua has shown once again that freedom of speech is only for those who follow the rules.

The…

Jakarta – Armed separatists shot dead an Indonesian soldier on Monday during a gunfight at a market place in the remote easternmost province of…

The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner says his office has been invited by Indonesia's government to visit Papua region, or West Papua.

Authorities in Indonesia have issued four new palm oil permits in its Papua provinces despite a moratorium on palm oil expansion…

Sheany, Jakarta – The United Nations high commissioner for human rights said on Wednesday (07/02) that he will send a mission to Indonesia's…

Krithika Varagur, Jakarta – Twin crises of measles and malnutrition have recently afflicted Indonesia's easternmost province, Papua, inciting…

AWPA hopes the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Secretary General, Dame Meg Taylor who is in Canberra this week will raise the human rights situation…

Andreas Harsono – Last week, Indonesian authorities arrested a BBC correspondent for tweets she made while reporting from Papua. The journalist,…

Indonesia's government representatives say the deadly measles outbreak in Papua province has been brought under control.

The…

After the BBC's Indonesia editor was expelled from the country's easternmost Papua region last weekend over a tweet, Reporters Without Borders (…

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesian paramilitary police fatally shot a woman in what they said was a clash with stone-throwing villagers in the…

Jakarta – Executive Director of Amnesty International Indonesia, Usman Hamid, said that the expulsion of BBC journalists and contributors who were…

The executive of the Vanuatu based United Liberation Movement of West Papua says it is confident the Prime Minister of Papua New…

Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has criticized the government for banning three BBC Indonesia journalists from reporting…

Adam Harvey – An Australian journalist has been expelled from the Indonesian province of Papua after her tweets angered the military.

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Jakarta – A foreign journalist covering the health crisis in Asmat, Papua, was forced to leave the region after the Indonesian Military (TNI)…

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Military chief Air Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto on Thursday (01/02) said a devastating measles outbreak that…

Jayapura, Jubi – Special Autonomy (Otsus) Papua will be ended in 2021, but one of the mandates of Special Autonomy Law, namely the formation of…

An Indonesia-based human rights researcher says malnutrition is widespread throughout Papua as imported foods have shattered traditional diets.…

M. Ahsan Ridhoi – A working committee meeting on January 29 between the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission I, TNI (Indonesian military)…

Indonesian health teams are scrambling to attend to the deadly measles outbreak in Asmat district of Papua province.

In the past few months…

Indonesia's battle to stem a deadly measles outbreak striking malnourished children in Papua is doomed to be repeated unless the government helps…

Step Vaessen, Papua, Indonesia – In their little bodies with bones nearly piercing through their skin, the eyes of these Papuan toddlers tell…

Worried parents braved long queues and scorching heat in the remote Papuan jungle to get their sick babies treated Friday, as the impoverished…

Taylor McDonald – Measles in eastern Indonesia's Papua province has killed around 100 indigenous children this month although the disease is…

The number of malnutrition victims in Asmat district of Indonesia's Papua province has reportedly surpassed 10,000.

Papua's police commander…

Andreas Harsono – A measles outbreak in Indonesia's Papua province has killed an estimated 100 indigenous Papuan children this month. As measles…

Bindi Bryce – Indonesia's Government has come under fire for its slow response to a severe measles outbreak in the province of Papua that has…

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) and the National Police will soon establish a joint task force to help address health…

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned about the health crisis facing Asmat regency in Papua, Indonesia. So far, 68 children have…

A measles outbreak is feared to have killed about 100 malnourished people in Indonesia's Papua, an official said Sunday, highlighting a health…

Dozens of pre-school children in a region of Indonesia's Papua province have died from malnutrition and measles in the past few months…

Jakarta – Indonesia is deploying military paramedics to carry food and vaccines to a remote part of its easternmost province of Papua, where…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The central government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Papua provincial administration and…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Eighty-seven religious clerics from all over Papua held on Thursday a joint prayer, after which they began a…

The trial of a West Papuan independence campaigner, jailed for over six months without charges, has been delayed due to the judge not…

Helen Davidson – West Papuan independence campaigners have called for the release of an activist who has been put on trial for treason after he…

A West Papua independence campaigner, held for over six months without charges, is due in court tomorrow.

Yanto Awerkion was…

Andreas Harsono – Last week an activist famous in Indonesia for peacefully advocating for the independence of the country's Papua and West Papua…

Since the latter part of 2017, fighters with the West Papuan Liberation Army, or TPN, have intensified hostilities with Indonesia's military and…

A former West Papuan political prisoner has been interrogated by Indonesian security forces for wearing the Papua Morning Star symbol.

Filep…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – The two parties with the highest number of seats in the Papua Legislative Council (DPRD) – namely the…

Jakarta – Former political prisoner and Papuan pro-independent activist Filep Karma was intercepted by five Air Force officers upon arriving at…

Viriya P. Singgih, Jakarta – The government has once again extended the temporary permit of miner PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) until June 30,…