Indonesian government sensitivities about West Papua are woven deep into the fabric of its national story. After Indonesia gained its independence from the Dutch in 1945, it fought for Papua to be ...

On the streets of Perth, almost 4,000 kilometres from West Papua, Wiwince Pigome raises the Morning Star flag. In doing so, she renews a decades-long push for independence from Indonesia. West ...

Indonesia: West Papua -- Violence against indigenous women. Fien Jarangga & Galuh Wandita May 20, 2011. Papuan women have been suffering terrible violence both outside and inside their homes for ...

FRIDAY FILE: After 42 years of Indonesian rule, women in West Papua continue to fight for their freedom and peace. By Rochelle Jones. West Papua – officially under Indonesian rule since 1963 ...

Indonesian authorities should drop treason charges and release at least 22 activists detained since August 2019 for peaceful acts of free expression concerning Papua, Human Rights Watch said today.

West Papua declares ‘government in waiting’ from Indonesia and install UK-based leader. The exiled leader, Benny Wenda has been nominated as interim president of West Papua ...

The Free Papua Movement has long sought self-determination and independence in West Papua, on the grounds that the Indonesian government-controlled “Act of Free Choice” in 1969 was ...

It is the United Nations, not Indonesia, that annexed West Papua (West New Guinea) in September 1962. Indonesia is only the UN appointed administrator, after all Indonesia promised our governments in ...

Attackers from the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement, carried out the assault against Indonesian soldiers on Saturday in the hilly district of Nduga, a ...

In October 2023, dozens of women from the Tehit clans of the Afsya people in Kondo district, Sorong Regency, West Papua held an emergency meeting, where they shared and wrote down everything they ...