Petronas in June 2024 farmed in for a 50% interest in Block PL 576 in the offshore Papua basin, which hosts the Mailu prospect. It represented the Malaysian energy giant's entry into PNG.

JAKARTA -- An eruption of violence in Indonesia's eastern Papua region, which has seen more than 40 people killed this year, has prompted calls for the government to pay greater attention to the ...

Following Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s May 2025 re-election, Australia is advancing a historic defence treaty with Papua New Guinea. Rooted in shared history and strategic urgency amid ...

JAKARTA - Torrential rains forced a halt on M ay 19 to Indonesia's search for 14 missing in its easternmost region of Papua after a landslide killed six workers at a gold mine and injured four ...

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.

The U.S. Defense Department is funding a $400 million fuel storage facility in Papua New Guinea as part of the growing military ties under a 2023 defense agreement between the two countries.

Trending News: Herpetologist Fred Kraus discovered a new arboreal snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea. This snake, characterized b ...

A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Saturday morning off the coast of Papua New Guinea's New Britain Island, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The shallow quake, at a depth of ...

An Act of Free Choice: Decolonisation and the Right to Self-Determination in West Papua Oneworld Academic: 2009 Updating Papua Road Map Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia: 2017 Seakan Kitorang ...

JAKARTA — Excavators have begun clearing land in the Indonesian region of Papua in what’s been described as the largest deforestation undertaking in the world. A total of 2 million hectares (5 ...

Christianity was introduced to Papua New Guinea by Marist missionaries who arrived on Woodlark Island in 1847 only to be forced to withdraw the following year. They were followed five years later ...

Satellite images show the landslide in Yambali village, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. Maxar Technologies/Reuters The vast size of the slide is even more visible from nearer the ground.