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 ...

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the ...

Indonesia's new president Prabowo Subianto has revealed plans to pardon as many as 44,000 convicts - about a third of the country's prison population. It is being cast as a human rights gesture but ...

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

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.

Discussions of Papuan independence is a sensitive issue ... due to an emphasis on incarceration rather than rehabilitation of people convicted of drug-related offences under the country's strict ...

Papua came under Indonesian rule in 1969 after a controversial United Nations-backed referendum that many Papuans say did not reflect the will of local people. Discussions of Papuan independence ...

Papua came under Indonesian rule in 1969 after a controversial United Nations-backed referendum that many Papuans say did not reflect the will of local people. Discussions of Papuan independence ...

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