An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Irian Jaya late at night on Saturday, the National Centre for Seismology reported. The tremors were felt at 22:46:28 IST at a ...

JAYAPURA (RNZI Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Indonesian government has issued a regulation officially renaming West Irian Jaya province as West Papua province. The Jakarta Post says the public ...

Ilaga, Indonesia-- By dusk, Cpl. Sahrudin was dead, hunted to exhaustion and pierced with three long arrows. Next to him, his lower jaw ripped away and the back of his head blown off by the Indonesian ...

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On July 2, thousands of young people calling themselves Reform Forum of Students and the People of Sorong (Forum Reformasi Mahasiswa dan Masyarakat Sorong Irian Jaya) took part in a pro-independence ...

Dutch newsmen at The Hague conference, where Indonesia and The Netherlands were trying to settle the status of West New Guinea (or Irian, as the Indonesians call it), knew that negotiations had ...