On 16 October the Associated Press reported that a ‘clash’ between the Indonesian military (TNI) and the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) had left fourteen people dead. According to the AP, ...

Protests have gripped the Indonesian province of West Papua for more than a week as racial and political tensions boiled over into violence. Information is scarce due to an Internet blackout in the ...

How do you get world attention for a cause to help save your culture? The freedom fighters of West Papua are asking that very question. On February 7, 2023, 37-year-old Phil Mehrtens, a New Zealand ...

The West Papua Provincial Government has underscored that any release of forest areas for palm oil plantation expansion must ...

The occupation of West Papua receives little attention in the UK. This is, in no small part, due to Indonesia’s ban on foreign journalists and its outlawing of West Papuan social movements who try to ...

On December 1, 1961, the Dutch flag that had flown over the peninsula of West Papua for more than 130 years was replaced by the “Morning Star” flag. This signified an important transition for West ...

At the United Nations General Assembly not long ago, Melanesian leaders from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu accused the U.N. of “turning a deaf ear” to human rights atrocities in the Indonesian ...

Thousands of protesters in the provincial capital of Indonesia’s West Papua have set fire to a local government building amid widespread demonstrations sparked by alleged police discrimination against ...

A Papuan activist holds up a separatist ‘Morning Star’ flag during a rally near the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara At least six ...

The local government in Indonesia’s West Papua province has revoked permits for 12 oil palm concessions that cover an area twice the size of Los Angeles. The move comes after a recent audit of palm ...

Nearly 10,000 kilometers away from the uprisings remaking the Arab world, activists in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua are taking notes. "We have all been watching the revolutions," ...