Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and returned to his native New Zealand. Mehrtens’s kidnapping was a personal trauma — ...

Today, West Papua remains Indonesia’s most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken province and human rights abuses are rife. Skip to cookie privacy notice Skip to main content ...

The seven new species of freshwater lobster were found in several remote locations across Misool, Kaimana, Fakfak, and ...

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 ...

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

In West Papua, the struggle isn’t about isolated tribes trying to protect their bit of turf, but a nationwide social movement with a comprehensive political platform, the Green State Vision.

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

Further reports of civilian casualties are coming out of West Papua as clashes between Indonesia's military and the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement continue.

In West Papua and other parts of the world, they bring water to their villages for activities that sustain community social life and hence its reproductive cycle.

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.