Human Rights Watch submits the following information regarding Papua New Guinea's implementation of recommendations it accepted through its 2015 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as well as information ...

West Papua occupies the Indonesian half of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world after Greenland. Indonesia unilaterally annexed the former Dutch colony in 1969 with the United Nations ...

Natural forests spanning 1.1 million hectares (2.7 million acres) in Indonesia’s Papua region have been slated for conversion, mostly for oil palm plantations, according to a new report by a coalition ...

JAKARTA — Hospitals in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua are nearing full capacity amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, with health officials bracing for the full impact of the virulent Delta variant ...

An Indonesian cabinet minister is pushing for American mining giant Freeport McMoRan to be allowed to expand its copper concentrate output so as to supply a planned smelter in the easternmost region ...

The Indonesian-occupied nation of West Papua has called for urgent international intervention against Indonesia’s intensification of what a 2016 report called “slow motion genocide.” West Papua is ...

A new Greenpeace report has identified a litany of loopholes and violations in Indonesia’s forest and palm oil moratoriums as well as other forest protection regulations. The report alleges that ...

The ‘Morning Star’ flag used by Papuan separatists. Credit: Flickr/lussqueittt Two Papuan independence fighters, including a rebel commander, were killed in the latest clashes between Indonesian ...

JAKARTA: President Prabowo Subianto has announced the creation of the Executive Committee for the Acceleration of Papua ...