Jayapura: A number of acts of violence have occurred in Papua, but none of these incidents have been investigated. which creates the impression that the Indonesian government it simply not interested, while these inc ...

Intelligence operatives do not report to the Papuan chief-of-police despite the province currently being under a state of civil administration, where jurisdiction for security lies with regional heads and is implemen ...

Mike Dillard, chief executive officer of Century Martial Arts and a prominent area developer, is a well known adrenaline junkie — but even he admits he was shaken by his latest adventure. What began as a recent att ...

"Now Cameron is to sell even more weaponry to a country which, although ostensibly a democracy, is still prosecuting a largely hidden war." ...

Journalists in Papua are regularly subjected to violence and intimidation by Indonesian security forces, including direct monitoring by intelligence officers in newsrooms. The Pacific Media Freedom Report 2011 docume ...

Ninety organizations today urged the U.S. government and Congress not to provide deadly attack helicopters to Indonesia. Indonesia has announced that it plans to buy eight AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the Uni ...

A local community leader in Keerom district has spoken out about the presence of many military posts in his area as well as along the border (between West Papua and PNG) ...

Unconfirmed reports are circulating that three foreigners have been arrested by Indonesian police in the west coast town of Fak-fak, West Papua, for taking photographs at a demonstration on March 19. ...

Hundreds of security forces are on the streets around Jaypura, West Papua, in a show of force as an Indonesian court found five Congress leaders guilty of Makar (treason), and sentenced the defendants each to three y ...

September 15, 2011. 8,000 of the 22,000 Freeport Indonesia workers went on strike, demanding a wage increase from US$ 3.5 to US$ 7.5 an hour. ...

The Asian Legal Resource Center (ALRC) wishes to bring the Council’s attention to the deterioration of farmers’ and indigenous peoples’ food security in Indonesia as the country’s laws and policies fail to en ...

With human rights observers and foreign media banned from working in West Papua, a ‘forgotten conflict’ of what some Papuans term ‘Indonesian occupation’ has been off the international radar. ...

INDONESIA: Military officers arbitrarily arrest and torture civilians based on false claims of rebel activity. Torture is used in a widespread way by the police and military against indigenous Papuans... ...

Across West Papua, a series of remarkable and disturbing text messages has been circulating the claim that Indonesian security forces are preparing a major security assault across Papua in an operation that allegedly ...

Cellphone footage from March 2011 of Indonesian soldiers shooting at OPM members, then filming and photographing their corpses. OPM is an indigenous organization founded in 1965 to promote West Papuan self-determina ...

In view of the fact that there has been no response from Freeport -Indonesia or Freeport McMoran, ‘I, Anthonius Alomang, as executive-director of Lemasa, the Association of Amungme tribal people, herewith warn Free ...

50 years ago on the 1/12/61 West Papuans flew their flag for the first time in preparation for their independence from the Dutch. In 2011, despite ongoing repression, the Morning Star flag was once again flown across ...

The annual Public Eye Awards selects 6 of the most unethical and abusive corporations from a long list of nominations. Support West Papua and vote for Freeport McMoran this year for worst company. ...

Responding to reports from the community in Paniai that additional troops are still arriving in Paniai, the deputy chair of the Majelis Rakyat Papua said that this must stop. ...

Papua New Guinea's parliament endorsed-prime minister, Peter O'Neil, has threatened to expel the Indonesian Ambassador, because of an incident in Indonesian airspace last November. ...