A leader of a major West Papuan political movement has praised the recent judgment of the Permanent People’s Tribunal on the Melanesian region colonised by Indonesia for the past 63 years. “Indonesia ...

In the years prior to his officially taking office, General Suharto oversaw the mass murder of up to 1 million local Communists, he further rigged the 1969 referendum on self-determination for West ...

Christians in conflict-torn Papua in Indonesia marked International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10 with Way of the Cross, calling for an end to the state violence on their people. Indigenous Papuans, ...

West Papua (or West Melanesia) is a subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. The region is home to some 12 million people with a rich cultural diversity, ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) considers the implementation of the food estate National ...

As Interim President of the ULMWP, I welcome the release of the judgment of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) on West Papua. After testimonies from West Papuans on the ground and legal and ...

According to Frits, the main challenge for the Indonesian government at the moment is how to build the trust of the Papuan people by fostering equality, justice, enforcement of fair and ...

This action is more significant since Bishop Matopai You is the first indigenous Papuan appointed by the Holy See to the ...

Meanwhile, Supratman’s announcement that the amnesty plan would also apply to some people from the restive Papua region who are behind bars was met with mixed feelings by an activist from the region.

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The Dutch did withdraw from some 3,000 islands inhabited by 95 million people, but under the treaty loophole held onto New Guinea, on the ground that the Papuan inhabitants are ethnically ...