As President of the ULMWP Provisional Government, I welcome the Legislative Council’s first Plenary Session, which was held ...

But his life was plunged into danger on February 7, when he flew into the remote Paro airfield in Nduga regency of Papua province, and upon arrival was kidnapped by fighters of the West Papua ...

In September 2024, Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and returned to his native New Zealand. Mehrtens’s kidnapping ...

In April 2021, the Coordinating Minister of Politics, Law, and Security of the Indonesian government officially designated the TNPPB-OPM (National West Papua Freedom Army – Free Papua Movement ...

In West Papua’s case, that highest bidder would be the massive Anglo-American Freeport Mining Company whose board members included then National Security Advisor and future Secretary of State ...

Within days, several replies came back identifying the rockets as the product of Forges Zeebrugge, a subsidiary of Thales Belgium, which makes FZ-68 rockets.. The rockets were fired by the Indonesian ...

As a result of Indonesians moving to this “frontier”, more than 40% of West Papua’s population is now non-Melanesian. West Papuans, meanwhile, are second-class citizens in their own land.

Almost two years after being arrested, Victor Yeimo, 39, a spokesperson for the West Papuan National Committee (Komite Nasional Papua Barat, KNPB), remains in police detention.

In Sentani, in northern West Papua on April 2, 77 people were sprayed with teargas and arrested for participating in a peaceful demonstration against the militarization of West Papua. Many were ...

Much of West Papua's southern and western coastlines became islands. Social transformations during the past 10,000 years. As environments changed, so did people's cuisine and culture.

West Papua—the part of the island of Papua currently ruled by Indonesia—is a site of aggressive industrial development, with major industries in gas extraction, metallurgical mining, ... Free West ...