JAKARTA -- An eruption of violence in Indonesia's eastern Papua region, which has seen more than 40 people killed this year, has prompted calls for the government to pay greater attention to the ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on Thursday denied claims by separatist rebels in the Papua region that at least 17 gold miners slain by insurgents were members of security forces.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on Thursday denied claims by separatist rebels in the Papua region that at least 17 gold miners slain by insurgents were members of security forces.

Papua is divided into six provinces: Papua, West Papua, Southwest Papua, Central Papua, Papua Highlands, and South Papua. There are at least 250 indigenous Papuan groups in Indonesia and many ...

Gunmen stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot shortly after it landed in Indonesia’s restive Papua region on Monday, and they released two health workers and two children it was ...

The Free Papua Movement seeks the independence of Papua from Indonesia. West Papua, which borders New Guinea, was formerly a Dutch colony which came under Indonesian control in 1969 after a UN ...

Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko and Indonesia’s ambassador to the Pacific island country, Andriana Supandy, held a press conference in Port Moresby to announce ...

Rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province killed a construction worker and seriously injured three others in an attack at a construction site, police said Friday. Nineteen other workers were ...

At least 20 people were injured when police used batons, water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who joined rallies in Indonesia’s restive Papua region on the 61st anniversary of an ...