An Indonesian church group has urged President Joko Widodo to order an independent investigation into the killing of a priest in the rebellious…

Jakarta – A soldier and a Christian pastor have been shot dead in separate incidents at the weekend in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua,…

Jakarta – The Tabernacle Bible Church of Indonesia (GKII) suspects that Reverend Yeremia Zanambani from the Intan Jaya regency in Papua was shot…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to order a thorough investigation into the recent…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) is urging President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo open the curtain on the shooting of Pastor Yeremia…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – An Intan Jaya-based armed "separatist" group in Papua reportedly launched several attacks against civilians and an…

West Papuans have raised over $US50,000 to help an Indonesian human rights lawyer repay government-sponsored scholarship funding.

Veronica…

By Jarryd de Haan

• The coming months will likely see the issue of West Papuan independence reignite due to the expiry of special…

Jakarta – The symbolic hand over of money to the Finance Ministry's Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) to replay scholarship funds received by…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Papua residents have raised more than Rp 773.8 million (US$51,900) to pay for the government-sponsored scholarship…

Jakarta – Human rights activist Veronica Koman feels that her scholarship has been paid for by the Papuan people. This is because the scholarship…

Jakarta – The Papuan People's Solidarity Team will return the scholarship funds received by human rights activists Veronica Koman to the Ministry…

Antara, Jakarta – Some 16 native Papuans suffered arrow wounds in a tribal clash erupting in Jayawijaya District's area, Papua, on Thursday and…

Jayapura, Jubi – A number of youths, students, and Papuan and non-Papuan communities held a peace rally on Thursday (10/9/2020) to decline the…

Arjuna Pademme, Makassar, Jubi – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Papua stated the office received a number of reports on…

Toyiban, Manokwari – Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto has approved a program to recruit 1,000 Special Autonomy non-commissioned officers (Bintara…

Jayapura, Jubi – Freeport Indonesia workers held a protest for the second time in Mile 72 that connecting Tembagapura and Freeport mining area on…

Semarang, Jubi – Adriana Elizabeth, a senior researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the Coordinator for the Papua Peace…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indigenous rights activists have welcomed the cancellation of an oil palm plantation permit on Indigenous land in…

Susan Price – August marked one year since the racist attacks on West Papuan students in Surabaya that sparked a new West Papuan uprising. More…

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia has called for a thorough investigation into the recent death of 21-year-old George Karel…

Jakarta – North Jayapura Community Health Center (Puskesmas) in Jayapura, Papua, has reopened its doors to provide medical services for the public…

Timika – Operations have resumed at the world's biggest gold mine in Indonesia, the company that runs it said Saturday, after workers blocked…

A protest demanding an easing of a Covid-19 lockdown at the Grasberg gold and copper mine in Papua ended last Friday.

Mining operatons had…

Makassar, Jubi – Dandhy Dwi Laksono, a journalist who travelled around Indonesia in the Indonesia Biru Expedition in 2015, stated that the…

Agustinus Beo Da Cost, Jakarta – Workers at Indonesia's Grasberg gold and copper mine on Friday ended a protest demanding an easing of a…

Jakarta – Papuan Traditional Council (DAP) Second Secretary John Gobay is asking President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to quickly issue a government…

Jakarta – Gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia has agreed to meet the demands of its employees at the Grasberg complex in Tembagapura,…

Herlambang P Wiratraman – In mid-August, the government acknowledged that it has asked Indonesian human rights activist Veronica Koman to return…

A group of West Papuan political prisoners just released from jail have paid tribute to a human rights lawyer who died last week.

Yuliana…

Timika, Indonesia – More than 1,000 Indonesian workers blocked access to the world's biggest gold mine on Monday in protest at a company move to…

Charles Maniani, Jayapura – On Wednesday August 19, officers from the Abepura sectoral police (Polsek) forcibly broke up a Papuan People's…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Papua – Musa Heselo, a resident of Jayapura, Papua, was not aware that he had frequently been discriminated against on…

Jayapura, Jubi – Abepura Sector Police of Jayapura Municipality dispersed fundraising activity by Papuan Student Solidarity for Veronica Koman in…

David Robie – The silence from Facebook is deafening and disturbing.

At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over…

Jakarta – Hundreds of Papuan students from the East Java cities of Malang and Surabaya held an action on Tuesday August 18 commemorating the…

Alfian Kartono, Jayapura – Indonesian troops fatally shot a separatist leader in ongoing clashes between security forces and a rebel group near…

Mong Palatino – Arbi Nur was one of four students who were expelled from Khairun University in Indonesia after they joined a protest in December…

Ronny Kareni – We are West Papuans living in Australia, calling for our friends to support Veronica Koman, an Indonesian human rights lawyer. Many…

Papua, Indonesia's eastern-most province, has been in a grip of a civil unrest. The Free Papua Movement (Organisasi Papua Merdeka or OPM) is an…

Ronna Nirmala, Jakarta – Government security forces in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province have killed a separatist commander whose group…

Usman Hamid – The debate over Papua flared up again in Indonesia after anti-racism protests in the US triggered a social media campaign…

A group of Indonesian religious leaders, academics, activists and cultural figures have called on President Joko Widodo to free all political…

Jayapura, Jubi – The Action Committee against the Special Autonomy Policy Phase II held a protest in front of the Indonesian Ministry of Home…

Islami Adisubrata, Wamena, Jubi – Papua Customary Council (DAP) commemorated the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples of 9 August…

Jakarta – Approximately 289 children below 19 years old have been infected with COVID-19 in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, an…

Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – Activists from the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) held a…

Chandra Iswinarno and Adie Prasetyo Nugraha – The Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) held…

Denpasar – The Bali chapter of the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) held a protest action at the Renon traffic circle in the provincial capital of…