Secara resmi nama Irian Jaya digunakan hingga 2002 ... Gambaran yang mengacu pada penampilan fisik suku setempat. Nama Irian juga menjadi cerita rakyat Asal usul Nama Irian. Cerita rakyat ini ditulis ...

Radical separatist groups in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya have called on local political leaders to make a declaration of independence during special celebrations planned for Friday. The ...

Advertisement Jakarta formally incorporated it as Irian Jaya in 1969 after a U.N.-recognized act of free choice which Papuans say was flawed. Since then, rebels belonging to the Free Papua ...

2000-07-07 04:00:00 PDT Jakarta-- Less than a year after East Timor voted to sever itself from Indonesia, calls for independence for the resource-rich province of Irian Jaya are making this ...

At dawn that day, Dec. 15, 2000, Sahrudin and four fellow soldiers had climbed the high hill where the Dani of Tiom and Pirime villages in Irian Jaya's western Baliem Valley had hoisted the banned ...

Human rights activists in Indonesia say two people have been shot dead and another 15 injured in the latest clashes in the province of Irian Jaya. The clash is reported to have broken out between the ...

Australian-Indonesian relations improved markedly at the Australian-Indonesian Ministerial Forum in Canberra on Friday, but Australia remains deeply concerned over ongoing violence on Irian Jaya.