The law tasks the Vice President with overseeing the coordination, evaluation and harmonisation of autonomy and development ...

Prabowo's amnesty proposal follows a similar initiative by former President Joko Widodo, who pardoned political prisoners from Papua in 2015. Meanwhile, among the population of Papua, there is a ...

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New Zealand pilot kidnapping exposes Indonesia’s Papua ‘hotspot’ The incident in a remote highlands region has drawn renewed attention to one of the world’s least-known conflicts.

Separatists have long called for the independence of the West Papua province from Indonesia. Papua was incorporated into the country in 1969 after an UN-sponsored ballot that received heavy criticism.

Indonesian provinces have officially increased from 34 to 37. The three new provinces are South Papua, Central Papua, and Pegunungan Papua.

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.

Six rockets landed on Ugimba village in Intan Jaya regency of West Papua, Indonesia, early on a January morning in 2020. Locals found unexploded parts that were stamped with the number FZ-68 so they ...

Despite protests, Indonesia's Parliament has received a new draft of the Criminal Code that threatens to further chill political dissent and civic participation.