Markus Makur, Timika – Hundreds of employees at PT Freeport Indonesia refused to resume work Monday in protest at the deteriorating security…

Roselyn Ellison – Seventy-six people from the West Papuan community in Manus province will move back to their homeland, as part of the…

Jayapura – Around 200 people blocked a road in front of Papua Police Headquarters in Jayapura on Friday, as part of a protest against…

Markus Makur, Timika – The wives and children of PT Freeport Indonesia employees rallied at the Mimika legislative council office in Papua on…

Farouk Arnaz – National Police have dispatched 150 officers, including antiterror police, to Timika, Papua, to support local officers and the…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, Jayapura, Timika – Residents in Nomouwodide, Bogobaida district in Paniai, Papua, seized…

Unidentified assailants have shot a soldier near the giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold mine in Papua, police said on Thursday.

Papua…

Markus Makur, Timika, Papua – Papua Police are cooperating with the military as they begin hunting for gunmen responsible for a…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, Jayapura, Timika – One person was killed and three others injured Tuesday in two separate attacks blamed on…

Violence flared again near the Freeport gold mine in Indonesia's Papua province as gunmen shot and wounded two of the company's…

It is to be hoped that Prime Minister Rudd will also raise the issue of West Papua on his trip to Indonesia for the inauguration of…

A New Zealand based Indonesian human rights group says it's totally opposed to the importation of the tropical hardwood, Kwila,…

The Indonesian embassy in Papua New Guinea has denied that West Papuan refugees who are repatriated to Indonesia will be in danger at…

It is understandable that some West Papuan refugees who have been in exile in PNG since the 1980's may want to return home to reunite…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The West Papua National Coalition for Liberation (WPNLC) said dozens of organizations in the restive province of…

Indonesia is currently undertaking a program to repatriate several thousand West Papuan freedom activists living in Papua New Guinea. The West…

Jayapura – The first phase of the repatriation of Papuans from Papua New Guinea (PNG) is scheduled to begin by the end of this year, after all the…

Heru Andriyanto – A court showdown between a Papuan tribe and US mining giant Freeport McMoRan resumed on Thursday after negotiations to settle…

Timika – Members of two warring tribes in Timika, Mimika regency, Papua, the Amungme and Kei tribes, clashed at around 2:30 a.m. local…

A group of West Papuans and their supporters have called on the Australian government to help mediate a settlement over the province of West Papua…

Thousands of West Papuans have turned out in rallies in Indonesia's Papua demanding international help in mediating a political…

Timika, Papua – Vice President-elect Boediono, making his first ever visit to troubled Papua, said here on Monday that development in the region…

Problems in Indonesia's Papua province include security at the Freeport mine, high HIV rates, fast-shifting demographics and the ongoing conflict…

Classes at some schools in Papua's Mimika district have been at a standstill for the past few months because their teachers are stuck in Timika…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-121-2009

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of the abduction, ill…

Jakarta – A security guard was wounded in a shooting near Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province, a…

Hunger Alert Case: AHRC-HAC-006-2009

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from human…

The Asian Human Rights Commission on Wednesday said it had received information that the death toll from famine continues to rise in Yahukimo,…

Markus Makur, Timika, Papua – A soldier and a police officer were injured when a military vehicle was shot by an unidentified man on…

Camelia Pasandaran – A team from the State Ministry for People's Welfare is slated to visit Yahukimo, Papua, to find out what is happening in the…

West Papuan people are hopeful that the re-elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will fulfil his election promise to resolve the West Papuan…

Jakarta – Human right activists are urging the government to initiate a dialogue with representatives of various groups in Papua to find a…

The spokesman for the military wing of the Papua separatist group, the West Papua National Liberation Army, has been arrested by…

Markus Makur, Timika – At least two people were injured as a group of unidentified persons attacked a PT Freeport Indonesia security bus on…

Markus Makur, Timika – Monolithic mining company PT Freeport Indonesia should be forthright on the problems taking place within its concession…

Markus Makur, Timika – Despite an increase in the number of security officers guarding PT Freeport Indonesia's mine in Timika, Papua, a military…

Markus Makur, Timika – The All-Indonesian Workers Union (SPSI) of US mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia has submitted an official…

Mimika – Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie presented government housing assistance Tuesday to former…

John Pakage & Antara – At least 600 soldiers have arrived in Timika, Papua, to tighten security around PT Freeport Indonesia's mining site…

The operators of major resource extraction projects in the Indonesian province of Papua could face tough criminal penalties if they…

Seven suspects from Timika in Indonesia's Papua are set to face trial over recent shootings near the Grasberg mine run by mining giant…

Markus Makur, Jayapura – The Papua Police Office has handed over to the Timika Prosecutor's Office dossiers of seven people accused of…

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has written to New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully urging him to ask the Indonesian…

A conference in Dili to mark the tenth anniversary of East Timor's independence from Indonesia has demanded an end to impunity for the…

At least 600 army officers will help secure the working areas of the PT Freeport Indonesia mine in Timika, Papua, starting on…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Eight years after the introduction of "special autonomy" scheme developed by the central government for Papua and…

The man who led President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's campaign team in Papua for the July presidential election urged the government on Sunday to…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Scores of residents seeking compensation for land they claim was taken away from them, closed down the Sentani…

Nurfika Osman – The company uniform at the world's largest copper-and-gold mine in Papua is looking decidedly more severe these days.

Amid a…

Jakarta – Drivers working for the US-based company PT Freeport Indonesia have demanded a security guarantee in the wake of shootings…