Papua, Indonesia’s easternmost region, has endured decades of unrest rooted in historical, political, and cultural grievances. The region was incorporated into Indonesia following a controversial ...

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Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and returned to his native New Zealand. Mehrtens’s kidnapping was a personal trauma — ...

Mehrtens’s kidnapping was also a major embarrassment for the political elite in Jakarta, and a sign of the military’s failure to “secure” and “pacify” West Papua by armed force. Shortly after his ...

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Is named in honor of Herbert Nigl, an aquarium wholesaler who for the last 25 years supported us by helping obtain new crayfish species from Papua (Indonesia),” researchers said.

Protests over the National Armed Forces Law in March 2025 reflect democratic concern among Indonesian youth, yet the election of an undemocratic candidate in February 2024 raises doubts about ...

Jakarta cannot wait passively for Timor-Leste and PNG to “catch up”, but must proactively shepherd these nations into ASEAN’s institutional, political and economic architecture instead.