On Saturday, during a national holiday marking Indonesia’s independence from Dutch rule, students from Papua were accused of throwing the Indonesian flag into a ditch.A crowd of angry local ...

Indonesian authorities should immediately drop politically motivated treason charges and release Papuans detained for the peaceful exercise of their rights in the Papua and West Papua provinces.

Indonesia has condemned the raising of a pro-West Papua independence flag at its consulate general office in Melbourne, Australia, asking its neighbor Saturday to be more protective of foreign ...

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.

Since the 1970s, the Bintang Kejora flag has been the main symbol of the Free Papua Movement (OPM). The use of the banned Bintang Kejora flag by OPM has triggered controversy and stigma in Indonesia.