Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and ...

THE global observance of World Refugee Day was marked in Port Moresby on Friday, as displaced PNG women and West Papua ...

In October 2023, dozens of women from the Tehit clans of the Afsya people in Kondo district, Sorong Regency, West Papua held an emergency meeting, where they shared and wrote down everything they ...

Today, West Papua remains Indonesia’s most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken province and human rights abuses are rife. ... life expectancies are 35 years for men and 38 for women, ...

Further reports of civilian casualties are coming out of West Papua, with clashes between Indonesia's military and the armed ...

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.

That is all the refugees who fled the Indonesian province are asking for. The new generation does not want independence, but recognition from Papua New Guinea that would allow access to healthcare and ...

The rebels initially threatened to kill that pilot, Phillip Mehrtens, unless Indonesia recognized West Papua’s independence, said Damien Kingsbury, an emeritus professor at Deakin University in ...