Additional police and military forces are being sent to beef up security along a road in Papua that has seen a string of deadly…

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia is deploying police special forces to US-based Freeport's gold mine – the world's largest – after a wave of…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Workers at the Freeport-McMoran gold and copper mine have been ordered to stay at home after another series of shootings on…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – After feeling exploited and ignored for more than three decades, the Papuan Amungme tribe have filed a lawsuit against…

New York – The visiting speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly has asked the US government not to support the separatist Free Papua…

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – Deadly ambushes at the world's largest gold mine likely stem from rivalries between Indonesian police and military…

Although the TNI commander Djoko Santoso claims the Free Papua Movement (OPM) was likely behind shooting attacks in West Papua on the weekend, it…

Dicky Christanto and Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The National Police and the Army have deployed officers to investigate a recent series of attacks…

Geoff Thompson, Jakarta – Papua's police chief has denied bullets were removed from the body of murdered Australian Drew Grant before an autopsy…

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – A series of killings in the remote highlands of Indonesia's Papua region have thrown a spotlight on the murky history of…

Jakarta – The Mimika District Legislative Council (DPRD) in Papua Province has condemned the shooting incidents which occurred in an area…

Farouk Arnaz, Christian Motte & April Aswadi – Autopsy results show that the victims of the weekend killings near Timika in Papua were shot…

Farouk Arnaz & April Aswadi – While publicly agreeing to cooperate in a joint operation to find the perpetrators of the deadly weekend…

Some Papuan police sources are blaming the shootings on the Free Papua Movement, but one rebel representatives has denied involvement.

Papua…

Tony Eastley: It's been a weekend of deadly violence in the troubled Indonesian province of Papua.

On Saturday, a Melbourne man, Drew Grant…

Peter Cave: The death toll from a weekend of violence in Papua has now risen to three.

Police have confirmed that another Freeport mine…

Nurfika Osman – The Armed Forces on Sunday again denied that it was still receiving payments from US mining company Freeport McMoran to provide…

Jayapura – A security guard employed at the huge Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province was shot dead and several police officers…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – A Melbourne man has been shot dead near the giant Freeport mine in Indonesia's Papua province in an apparent sniper attack…

Timika – Gunmen using military-issue weapons pre-planned an ambush that killed an Australian mine worker in Indonesia's restive Papua…

Jakarta – Security forces arrested three separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM) members following a firefight in the district of Anatowai, Yapen,…

Jakarta – Security agencies should conduct a professional investigation into the fatal shooting on Saturday of Drew Nicholas Grant, an Australian…

Jakarta – An Australian worker has been shot dead near the massive Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province run by a unit of Freeport McMoran…

Reports from Indonesia's Papua say continuing clashes with anti-terrorist police in Kapeso of Mamberamo Raya district have left at…

Arientha Primanita – The National Police chief said on Wednesday four men had been arrested over attacks on polling stations in Papua's Yapen…

Papuan independence activists are calling for a mass boycott of tomorrow's Indonesian presidential election.

The vice-president…

In a letter to the Australian Prime Minister, Australian-West Papuan support groups have called on the Prime Minister to cease all ties between…

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has written individually to the 16 Pacific Island Heads of Government to urge them to make West Papua a…

Angela Flassy, Jayapura – Papuan activist Bucthar Tabuni was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for "provocation" at a pro-independence…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – In what seems to be a last minute decision, television news network Al-Jazeera English decided not to premiere on Thursday…

Nurfika Osman – Continued dialogues between religious and tribal leaders from Papua and Jakarta are necessary to bring about a mutual…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – News TV-channel Al Jazeera English will broadcast an Australian documentary highlighting the plight of Papuans…

Previously secret US State Department documents implicate the President of Indonesia in a probable cover-up of an ambush in West Papua.

The…

TAPOL has today called on the British Government to suspend its plan to conduct training for Kopassus, Indonesia's special forces, in October this…

Tom Hyland – New details of secret Australian surveillance of Indonesia's Papua province have emerged, revealing that Australian officials…

In light of the latest Human Rights Watch report with accusations that members of elite special forces, Kopassus, had acted with…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia's controversial special forces, which are trained by Australia, have been accused of new human rights…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Human Rights Watch has urged Australia to cut ties with Indonesia's feared special forces group Kopassus after new evidence…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Reuters – The military struck back bitterly on Thursday against accusations that members of elite special forces…

Adam Gartrell – A new report calls on Australia to cut off ties with Indonesia's feared special forces group Kopassus over new evidence it is…

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Members of Indonesia's elite military special forces, Kopassus, have acted with legal impunity in Papua to detain,…

Farouk Arnaz – A hit-and-run ambush on a group of elite Mobile Brigade police officers has left one officer dead in the latest violence to hit…

Melbourne – Five Australians made an emotional return after a nine-month ordeal in which they were detained by Indonesian authorities for flying…

Jakarta – Indonesia is investigating the shooting of a teenager at a military post on the Papua border, but dismissed allegations of police abuse…

Jakarta – Thirteen-year-old Isak Pesakot, a Papuan resident who was reportedly shot by an Indonesian Military (TNI) soldier near the…

Training will go in one ear and out the other if the government does not make it clear to Kopassus that it will have zero tolerance for abuses…

American Samoa's US Congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin says he drove moves to drop provisions on Indonesia's Papua from a Foreign…

An Australian-based NGO is calling on Pacific Island leaders to go public over the intimidation of the indigenous people of the…

Jakarta – A thirteen year old resident of Keerom Regency in Papua Province was shot to death by Indonesian military personnel…

Adam Gartrell – Five Australians trapped in Indonesia's Papua province for more than nine months expect to fly home on Wednesday after authorities…