The West Papua provincial government is intensively coordinating with the Teluk Bintuni district government to advance the ...

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 — ...

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

A large delegation of Master Guides from the Greater Sepik Region and Indonesia's West Papua SDA Mission recently concluded a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Similar resin was collected during the 20th century around West Papua and used for fires before gas and electric lighting was introduced. The tree resin artefact found at Mololo Cave dates back to ...