Indonesia's crackdown on the Papuan independence movement is diminishing prospects for peace, Human Rights Watch said in a new report issued today. A broad civilian independence movement has ...

A landmark report – the Papua Road Map – published by the Indonesian ... Benny Wenda, who escaped prison in Indonesia in 2002 and was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom, now ...

As fresh unrest grips Indonesia’s eastern Papua provinces – what is the history behind the resurgent discontent of the region’s Indigenous people? A resurgence of rebellion among Papuans ...

Prabowo's amnesty proposal follows a similar initiative by former President Joko Widodo, who pardoned political prisoners from ... and a feeling of violent imposition”. Papua, the easternmost region ...

Corruption has been highly pervasive in Indonesia, particularly in Papua. For years, local aspirations are too easily branded as political ideas about the independence movement. Neglect of the two ...

JAKARTA, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Indonesia must urgently address political discontent and migration in Papua, its resource-rich, easternmost region, to avoid fuelling a simmering separatist movement ...

There are new hazards for foreign journalists attempting to report from Indonesia’s restive easternmost provinces of Papua and West ... who report on sensitive political topics and human rights ...

Three soldiers and several members of an armed group were killed in a shootout earlier this month in Nduga, Papua. Last Sunday, Indonesia ... But Indonesian political elites still don’t ...

Two separate political clashes in Indonesia's eastern provinces of Papua leave 21 people dead, four months ahead of local elections. Gunmen opened fire on a crowded minibus killing four people and ...

French reporters Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat have spent the past two weeks in a police jail cell on Indonesia’s island of Papua ... independence or other political change.

The political situation in Irian Jaya (also known as West Papua or Papua), Indonesia_s easternmost province, is fundamentally unsettled. Papua is remote from Jakarta and home to only two million ...