Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and returned to his native New Zealand. Mehrtens’s kidnapping was a personal trauma — ...

For many people in West Papua—which sits on the western half of the island of New Guinea, about 1,900 miles east of the capital Jakarta—the struggle goes beyond racial equality.

Pro-independence protests in Indonesia's restive Papua and West Papua provinces have resulted in violence for a second week, according to activists and reports from the area, where most Internet ...

As Albanese jets to Jakarta, there are calls for him to confront an 'oppressor' Human Rights Monitor says at least 13 people have been killed in West Papua in the past six months as tensions ...

In April, an overloaded truck carrying 29 people hit a hillside and overturned near an illegal gold mine in Indonesia’s West Papua province, killing 18 people and leaving others injured.

Prime Minister James Marape has called on Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) member states to put West Papua and New Caledonia ...

If you visit Indonesia’s National Library—home to 7.7 million physical books—and do a search with the keywords “West Papua”, “Irian Jaya” or even simply “Papua”, you’ll find a ...

The TPNPB OPM threatened to launch a military operation if the Indonesian government continues the construction of roads.

In each of these three incidents, the attacks by the Indonesian military were justified by the Jakarta government as a suitable response to actions of armed rebels fighting for independence, a war ...

JAKARTA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Indonesia's President Joko Widodo on Friday launched construction of a carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)project in West Papua province operated by BP Plc ...