Jakarta – A clash between striking workers and police near Freeport Indonesia's copper mine killed one protestor and injured others, complicating…

Jayapura – About two thousand people intending to attend the Third Papuan People's Congress due to open on 16 October have already arrived in…

Indonesian police have detained ten West Papuan activists in Jayapura on Thursday ahead of a critical meeting for the pro-independence West Papua…

Alex Rayfield and Claudia King – Workers at the Freeport McMoRan mine in West Papua resumed strikes on 15 September after more than six weeks of…

Workers at the world's largest gold and copper mine in Indonesia have promised to strike indefinitely until their demands are met.

Most of…

Workers at one of the world's largest gold and copper mine in the remote Indonesian province of Papua vowed on Friday to paralyze production, as…

Karima Anjani – Union workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's extended their strike at a massive Indonesian gold and copper mine on…

Jayapura – The Third Papuan People's Congress [KRP] which is due to take place from 16-19 October will be provided with a security force of four…

No: 024-Per.Sikap/DPP.GSBI/JKT/X/2011

Solidarity greetings,

As reported in various media as well as the chronology of cases…

Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia says it cannot fulfill its workers' demands for hourly wages because their offered 22 percent…

Thousands of workers from Freeport Indonesia have been on strike since 15 September demanding higher wages and better personal welfare, bearing in…

Jakarta – PT Freeport McMoran, Indonesia's largest gold producer, has rejected employee demands for a 25 percent salary increase,…

Index: ASA 21/029/2011

Amnesty International welcomes the decision of the Manokwari District Court on 27 September 2011 to acquit…

Mimika – Thousands of PT Freeport Indonesia workers staged another protest in front of the Mimika Manpower Agency over what they said…

Thousands of PT Freeport Indonesia workers staged another protest in front of the Mimika Manpower Agency office over what they said…

New York – Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said on Tuesday that his government was fully aware of problems in restive Papua and was…

We fully support the strike by PT Freeport Indonesia workers for better wages and conditions. The government must guarantee legal protection to…

Anita Rachman – Eighty percent of Papuans live in the approximately 3,000 kampongs spread across the country's largest province, so any meaningful…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A local NGO is urging the government to propose contract renegotiations with Freeport Indonesia to force the company to…

Freeport Indonesia's labor union plans not to continue with a tripartite mediation involving the government and is seeking to discuss…

Jakarta – Recent violence in Papua in July and August underscores the urgent need for the government to reassess its military approach and place…

There are allegations about [multinational private security corporation] SecuriCor led [at Freeport] by someone called Ian Church being involved…

Jayapura – As the UN General Assembly begins today (21/9) in New York, Indonesia will be in front line of supporting Palestinian efforts to become…

Paris-Jakarta-Bangkok – The recent spike in violent incidents in Papua in July and August underscore the urgent need for Jakarta to re-assess its…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta/Jayapura – A workers' union of gold and copper mining producer PT Freeport Indonesia has denied…

Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia president director and CEO Armando Mahler said that the company had decided not to pay the salaries of…

Rangga D. Fadillah and Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta/Jayapura – Freeport employees on strike over wage increase demands claimed they had been…

Samuel Wanda and Olivia Rondonuwu, Timika, Indonesia – Energy minister Darwin Zahedy Saleh said Indonesia is losing $6.7 million from revenue…

A report has been released following a joint investigation into the mistreatment and torture of a group of 15 Papuans in connection with two…

Hundreds of paramilitary police have been sent to Indonesia's Papua province after 9,000 mining workers started a month-long strike for higher…

Timika, Indonesia – Thousands of workers at Freeport-McMoran's gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia began a monthlong strike Thursday over a…

Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-041-2011

Dear friends,

The Manokwari district court in West Papua has sentenced two peaceful…

Jayapura – The Papua Police have dispatched 114 police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel to Timika to heighten security ahead of a…

Thousands of workers at Freeport McMoRan's giant gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia prepared to go on a month-long strike over wages at…

Jayapura – Mufriadi, a journalist with TOP TV Papua, was reportedly beaten by the South Sorong regent while he was covering a rally…

Investing in conflict-affected and high-risk areas is a growing concern for responsible businesses and investors. Often times companies based…

Once again, violence has been used in Papua, this time against a television journalist working for the local TV station in South Sorong, TOP TV.…

A massive upsurge in "mysterious acts of violence" around the Jayapura region of West Papua has many local observers blaming Indonesian…

Although thirteen of the fifteen Papuans who were arrested on 31 August have since been released, the National Human Rights Commission's (Komnas…

A group of Papuan independence activists in Auckland are hoping Pacific leaders have heard their calls for self-determination and the…

Jayapura – Police have detained two people identified as EK,17, and PK,19, for their alleged involvement in several murders in…

As security in West Papua deteriorates, local groups have stepped up their calls for dialogue with Jakarta. Joe Collins from the Australia West…

Jakarta – Jayapura district police have been accused of torturing 15 witnesses who were initially suspected of being members of the Free Papua…

KontraS condemns the appalling practices of torture and criminalisation which were perpetrated by the law enforcement agencies against of a number…

David Adam Stott – "Where it cuts across the island of New Guinea, the 141st meridian east remains one of colonial cartography's more arbitrary…

Max Lane – I was very active between 1991 and 1999 in the international solidarity movement for Timorese independence. During that time, I worked…

At the the 42nd Meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to be held in Auckland next week, AWPA calls on the PIF leaders to grant observer…

The Pacific Islands Forum is being told it must speak out about the ongoing instability in the Indonesian region of Papua.

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Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-150-2011

Dear friends,

The Jayapura regional police in West Papua have charged eight medical…

Maire Leadbeater – The Melanesian people of West Papua, neighbours to Papua New Guinea, say they belong to the Pacific region and that it is their…