An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan separatist armed groups in West Papua has seriously ...

known as the Free Papua Movement. Benny Wenda, who escaped from an Indonesian jail 18 years ago and later received political asylum in Britain, declared himself head of West Papua’s first ...

But it has also renewed scrutiny of the controversial and often violent insurgency movement known as the Free Papua Movement. Papua, which borders New Guinea, came under Indonesian control in 1969 ...

In early May violence once again struck in Papua. This time the perpetrators were neither the security forces nor the armed resistance group the Free Papua Movement (OPM), but Abepura prison guards.

Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane on a small runway in Paro and abducted Philip Mark Mehrtens on Feb. 7 ...

The Free Papua Movement (OPM) says it will continue to fight for independence despite the arrest of its leader Daniel Kogoya at the weekend. Mr Kogoya was arrested along with dozens of other ...

Fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane on a small runway in Paro and abducted Mehrtens on 7 February in 2023. Mr Kogoya ...

Police say he was resisting arrest. "This leg was amputated for the Free Papua Movement. I am asking for independence,” he told Radio Australia from his hideout known as Camp Victoria in ...