Aske Mabel, a brigadier of the police force, fled with four organic firearms belonging to the Indonesian National Police ...

Later, the province was renamed Irian Jaya. Since then, there has been an ongoing call for independence by the people of West Papua, led by the Free Papua Movement (OPM), in an effort to assert ...

In 1962 the Indonesians and Dutch signed the New York Agreement to end their dispute regarding West Papua. This agreement placed Indonesia in a caretaker role to assist the people of West Papua to ...

The kidnapping was part of a long-running, often brutally violent conflict between the Indonesian government and West Papua's ...

In total, there are between 60,000 and 100,000 internally displaced people in Papua, mainly from Maybrat, Kiwirok and Intan Jaya." In addition, the Indonesian government "has been creating food ...

Human Rights Monitor has spoken out about human rights defenders in West Papua, Indonesia, being put under surveillance.

West Papua’s struggle for self-determination is not up for negotiation, says Benny Wenda, the Interim President of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), rejecting any dialogue with ...

Dialogue with Indonesia is not the answer for West Papua. The ULMWP has a clear stance on the question of dialogue: not until self-determination is on the table. West Papua is a colonised nation, not ...