Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia recently urged President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo to form an investigative team to look into the…

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – The government approved on Wednesday a one-month special mining permit (IUPK) for PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI…

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia's easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua still suffer from a persisting separatist stigma and the government's…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Violent attacks committed by armed civilian criminal groups in Papua over the last 10 years have resulted in…

The police chief in Indonesia's Papua region has dismissed claims in an Amnesty International report about unlawful killings occurring in the…

A new Amnesty International report released on Monday, "Don't bother, just let him die': Killing with impunity in Papua", documents the unlawful…

West Papuan students in the Indonesian city of Malang say police forcefully stopped them discussing an important date in their people's history.…

Craig Harris – In the jungle of West Papua the Indonesian military was on the move. Freedom fighters were hiding out in a certain village, and…

Jakarta – Indonesia's police and military are responsible for at least 95 unlawful killings in the easternmost Papua region since 2008, including…

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Police (Polri) have sent a Mobile Brigade (Brimob) company to hunt down the armed group that attacked…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government will look into the details of a newly-released report that accused Indonesia of "unlawful…

The Amnesty report 'Dont' Bother, just let him die: Killing with impunity in Papua' is yet another grave indictment of the Indonesian…

Jakarta – Indonesian security forces are behind the unlawful killing of at least 95 people in Papua since 2010, with most perpetrators never held…

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesian security forces have committed nearly 100 extrajudicial killings in Papua and West Papua since 2010, with little to…

Mohammad Bernie – A group of protesters from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) have…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua and two of its regencies, Nduga and Puncak Jaya, where deadly shootings by unknown assailants occurred last…

Albert Agua, Waigani – Indonesia is driving towards the Papua New Guinea border because of a recent discovery of huge mineral deposits in the Star…

A faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for Monday's deadly shootings in Indonesia's Nduga regency.

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Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – An unidentified armed group launched a shooting attack in Papua on Wednesday, in the second attack in the region…

Syafiul Hadi and Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – Papuan armed separatist group (KKSB) has again attacked civilians in Kenyam, Nduga, Papua on Monday,…

Evarianus Supar, Timika, Papua – Thousands of traditional gold prospectors in the Kali Kabur river of Timika, Papua, demanded the reopening of…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – A Twin Otter aircraft carrying election material and the National Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Tens of thousands of people from six regencies in Papua gathered in Wamena in Jayawijaya regency on Saturday to…

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – Indonesia has blamed staff members of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights regional office in Bangkok…

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a regional human rights organization in Asia, condemns the repeated arbitrary arrest and detention…

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia has criticized the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, saying that his regional office in Bangkok…

Phelim Kine – What is the Indonesian government hiding in Papua?

That's the question raised by the government's seeming refusal to make good…

Natalia Santi, Jakarta – Indonesia's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Hasan Kleib, has slammed the UN High Commissioner…

Hanna Azarya Samosir, Jakarta – The Indonesian government says that the statement by the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid…

Hanna Azarya Samosir, Jakarta – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, has questioned the invitation from…

David Sobolim, Manokwari – Dozens of human rights activists, the families of victims, and human rights partisans held a protest to commemorate…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed concern at not yet being able to visit Indonesia's Papua region.…

Jakarta – Five members of the Indonesian Military (TNI) were wounded in two attacks by unidentified gunmen in Papua on Saturday.

Karina M. Tehusijarana, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to…

Malaita provincial government has maintained its support and stand for a free West Papua.

This was highlighted during a dialogue held in…

Jayapura – Five civilians in Timika have allegedly been arrested by the newly reactivated military counter-terrorism unit for aspiring to West…

Rahul Bhattarai, Auckland – Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson last night condemned the "obscenity" of jailing West Papuans by Indonesian…

A growing grassroots solidarity network has prompted the establishment of a West Papua Desk in New Zealand.

The desk was officially opened…

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Relevant state agencies are set to collaborate to establish better forestry management in Papua in order to curb…

The Government has expressed dismay at attempts by West Papua leader Jacob Rumbiak, to interfere and meddle in the country's national affairs.…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government expects to take a controlling stake in the operator of the world's biggest copper and gold mine this month,…

There are reports a number of university students in Jayapura have begun to wear the traditional Papuan koteka or penis gourd to…

Danielle Bochove and David Stringer – Every year, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. dumps tens of millions of tons of mining waste into the Ajkwa River system…

People from Papua often face discrimination and suspicion from other Indonesians – often their pride in their homeland and traditional culture is…

Joe Cochrane, Jakarta, Indonesia – Yanto Awerkion knew quite well that he would infuriate the local Indonesian authorities for organizing a…

Jayapura – United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) spokesperson Jacob Rumbiak has described the recent seven-person delegation from…

A human rights advocate says it may be possible that armed Papuan groups could be implicated under Indonesia's new anti-terror laws.

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A human rights advocate says it may be possible that armed Papuan groups could be implicated in Indonesia's new anti-terror laws.

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Bernadette Christina Munthe, Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – A state audit of operations at Indonesia's Grasberg mine has cast a cloud over the…

Multi-national mining giant Rio Tinto says it plans to sell its interest in the lucrative Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province for $US3.5…