Indonesia is deploying its military to help complete the delayed Trans Papua Road project, which has faced setbacks due to ...

Even by the bloody standards of Indonesia’s decades-long Papua conflict, one massacre stands out for its brutality – and the seeming impunity of those behind it. On December 8, 2014, a crowd ...

Pro-independence protests in Indonesia's restive Papua and West Papua provinces have resulted in violence for a second week, according to activists and reports from the area, where most Internet ...

The government has earmarked an additional budget of Rp1.8 trillion (US$110 million) to fund research on vital issues in eastern Indonesia, including Papua, ...

The public is speculating about President Prabowo Subianto’s reason for assigning the vice president to handle the restive region.

An Indonesian court on Thursday acquitted a retired army officer in the fatal shooting of four teenagers in Papua in 2014, crushing hopes the military would be held accountable for alleged abuses ...

Papua, the western part of the island of Papua New Guinea, declared independence in the 1960s but was annexed soon after by Indonesia, a move resented ever since by many Papuans, ...

West Papua, which is located on the island of New Guinea, is a former Dutch colony that was temporarily designated as part of Indonesia upon the withdrawal of the Dutch administration.

The woman carries bananas, yams and vegetables in a knotted bag on her head as she wanders through a market in a suburban area of Jayapura in eastern Indonesia.

Indonesia Has a Papua Problem. A racial slur. Riots. And the real character of a popular president revealed. Sept. 26, 2019. Papuan activists protesting against racism, in central Jakarta ...

A measles outbreak in Indonesia’s Papua province has killed an estimated 100 indigenous Papuan children this month. As measles is easily prevented with a safe and inexpensive vaccine, these ...