Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and ...

The NGO Coalition on Human Rights is calling on Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka to confront unfinished business in Melanesia.

The Indonesian government's project to establish village cooperatives across the country could potentially create up to 16,000 jobs in West Papua, ...

Prime Minister James Marape has called on Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) member states to put West Papua and New Caledonia ...

The Free Papua Movement has long sought self-determination and independence in West Papua, on the grounds that the Indonesian government-controlled “Act of Free Choice” in 1969 was ...

International human rights organisation Human Rights Monitor says in the past six months, at least 13 people have been killed in West Papua, while more than 200 others have been victims of ...

Indonesia's National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) announced on Monday that it prioritizes 821 families in six districts of West Papua in ...

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck near the south coast of Indonesia's West Papua on Thursday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua said civilians killed included a 75-year-old, two women and a child. Both the women were allegedly found on 23 May in shallow graves. A spokesperson from ...

The species is already available in the pet trade under the common name, the peacock crayfish. The scientific name, however, honors the partnership between the crayfish community in Indonesia and the ...