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 — ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

JAKARTA, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Four people were shot and killed by an armed rebel group in Indonesia's restive West Papua province, the latest in a string of attacks on civilians, police said on Friday.

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 ...

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 ...

The seven new species of freshwater lobster were found in several remote locations across Misool, Kaimana, Fakfak, and ...

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 ...