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 ...

JAYAPURA, INDONESIA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo was expected to announce the release of several political prisoners in the restive eastern province of Papua Saturday, seeking to repair a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indonesia's military has killed 18 Papuan separatists during an operation in its easternmost region of Papua, an official said on Thursday, and three civilians also died.

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 ...

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 ...