Jakarta – The Press Council urged the government to deport French journalists Thomas Charles Dandois and Louise Marie Valentine Burrot to their…

Auckland (Pacific Media Watch/West Papua Media Alerts) – Indonesian intelligence officers are targeting West Papuan journalists and independence…

AWPA has written to the Indonesian President concerning the intimidation against human rights lawyer Gustaf Kawer

Australia West Papua…

Asian media organisations have urged the Indonesian government to immediately release two French journalists who have spent a month in…

Regional rights groups are hoping they can convince Indonesian authorities to free two French journalists in Papua province.

The…

Amy McQuire – An alliance of South East Asian journalists have called on the Indonesian government to release two French journalists jailed in the…

Amy McQuire – A West Papuan pro-independence activist has been found dead less than a week after he went missing in the lead-up to Indonesian…

Jakarta – Immigration officials have extended the detention period of two French journalists accused of violating the terms of their tourist visas…

Jakarta – Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has demanded an end to what it calls the Indonesian security forces' attacks on freedom of…

Papua – Two French tourists detained at the Jayapura Immigration Office claim they were simply carrying out their journalistic duties…

Further information on UA: 199/14 Index: ASA 21/023/2014 Indonesia Date: 29 August 2014

One of the two Papuan students tortured or…

Index: ASA 21/022/2014

Indonesian authorities must end attacks on freedom of expression in the country's Papuan region, Amnesty…

Amy McQuire – An international human rights group is calling for urgent action after two West Papuan students, one still a child, were allegedly…

Jayapura – The body of West Papua National Committee (KNPB) leader Marthinus Yohame, buried at the Sorong city cemetery on Aug. 27,…

Democratic Labour Party Senator John Madigan has urged the Australian Government to not turn a blind eye to Indonesia's treatment of the…

Jayapura, Papua – Two tourists from France, who have been detained in Jayapura immigration office, Papua, confessed to have taken coverage while…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Human rights activists called on police on Wednesday to investigate the death of the Sorong Raya West Papua…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua Police are preparing for an autopsy to be carried out to reveal the cause of death of Marthinus Yohame,…

The Australian West Papua Association says Australia's proposed anti-terrorism laws could be applied to activist groups like itself in…

A spokesperson for the Australian Democratic Labour Party says the arrest of two French journalists in West Papua is unacceptable, and…

Jerry Omona, Reza Aditya, Antara, Jakarta – Several Papuan figures urged president and vice president-elect Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla to solve…

Michael Bachelard – Indonesian president-elect Joko Widodo has promised to build a presidential palace on the shores of West Papua's picturesque…

An exiled West Papuan independence activist, Benny Wenda, says he doubts Indonesia's newly elected president, Joko Widodo, will make…

Phelim Kine – French reporters Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat have spent the past two weeks in a police jail cell on Indonesia's island of…

Johan Chang – A recent seminar on human rights issues in West Papua has focused questions about New Zealand's priority on trade relations over…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Celebrations for Indonesia's 69th Independence Day in Tiom, the capital of Lanny Jaya regency, Papua, passed off…

Lasse Underbjerg – After an election campaign filled with turmoil and nerve-wrecking rivalry, Joko Widodo has been elected as the new president…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Hundreds of Papuan students in Yogyakarta affiliated with the Papuan Students Alliance (AMP) rallied in Yogyakarta…

Jakarta – The XVII/Cendrawasih Military Command chief spokesman Lt. Col. Rikas Hidayatullah said Saturday some 500 members of the separatist Free…

Craig Hoyle – Political activists are using this month's "Pacific shame" seminar in New Zealand to highlight the plight of indigenous West Papuans…

Two French journalists arrested in the Indonesian province of Papua late last week remain in detention on charges relating to misusing their visas…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Police in Papua say they have found indications that two French journalists who have been held in custody since Aug. 6…

The Chairman of the Vanuatu-based West Papua Unification Committee says they won't defer to Indonesia on the issue of West Papuan self…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The improper implementation of policy and lack of attention to security-related problems in Papua are said to be…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – The detention of two French journalists in the Indonesian province of West Papua has taken a dangerous new turn, with…

The Vanuatu-based West Papua Unification Committee has postponed this month's planned West Papua conference to early October.

…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Authorities in Jayapura, Papua, continue to investigate two French journalists who were arrested on Aug. 6, for…

Vanuatu's Prime Minister Joe Natuman has reconfirmed his government's support for West Papuan independence aspirations to Indonesia's…

A West Papua advocacy group is urging New Zealand and other Pacific nations to lobby Indonesian authorities for the immediate release…

The fate of two French journalists detained by Indonesian police for almost a week in the restive region of Papua remains uncertain.

Thomas…

AWPA has written to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop concerning recent troubling events in West Papua. AWPA is urging the Foreign Minister to raise…

Reporters Without Borders deplores the detention of French journalists Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat in the Indonesian province of Papua (…

Jakarta – Indonesian Army spokesman Gen. M. Fuad Basya said that in six months the Army and the National Police lost at least 40…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Jayapura Police have taken 21 civilians into custody for their alleged involvement with the separatist Free…

Jakarta – Papua Police said they arrested 21 alleged members of the Free Papua Organization (OPM) as they intercepted a convoy of new recruits for…

Jayapura – Police in Papua and the French Embassy in Jakarta confirmed on Friday the arrest and detention of two French journalists in Papua.

UA: 199/14 Index: ASA 21/020/2014. Indonesia Date: 8 August 2014

On 8 August two Papuan students, including a child, were arbitrarily…

Arnold Belau, Papuan, Jayapura – Two members of the Manokwari district West Papua National Committee (KNPB), Robert Helemaken (17) and Oni Weya (…

Copper mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia aims to complete 7.5 percent of its smelter development in the coming months, although the company has…

Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesia unit will complete on Thursday loading for its first copper concentrate export shipment since new mining rules…