United Nations rights officials have raised the alarm over alleged human rights abuses and environmental destruction linked ...

The National Liberation Army of West Papua, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement, has claimed responsibility in the killing of 17 alleged miners between April 6 and April 9, 2025.

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has achieved a historic public health milestone with the official validation by the World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem. This ...

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 ...

Indonesia's military is taking a leading role in plans to convert more than 2 million hectares of wetlands and savannah into rice farms and sugarcane plantations in a part of conflict-prone Papua that ...

This Sept. 24, 2007 photo taken near Bensbach airfield in Papua New Guinea shows a landscape in the TransFly Eco Region that spans the border of Indonesia and PNG on the south of New Guinea island.

The 'Free Papua' movement Papua, which borders New Guinea, came under Indonesian control in 1969 after a highly controversial referendum. The vote, overseen by the UN, is widely seen as a sham.

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, centre, who was held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region, sits with police officers after his release, in Timika, Papua province, on ...