West Papua

It's 21 years since a massacre on Biak Island in West Papua and an activist says there's yet to be any action taken against the perpetrators.

The main organisation advancing West Papuan independence abroad has committed to ending the use of child soldiers by armed rebels fighting under its flag.

A Polish man imprisoned in Indonesia's Papua province for treason says his government has been of little help to him.

Indonesian paramilitary police are on stand-by in West Papua to start ground searches for the army helicopter missing in the mountainous Pegunungan Bintang District.

Armed rebel groups in Indonesia's West Papua have reportedly united to form a new army under a single command.

Indonesia is deploying several aircraft to West Papua in an expanded search for a dozen military personnel who went missing on a helicopter flight.

Indonesia will use a landmark business and trade exposition next week in New Zealand to launch a fresh diplomatic push in the Pacific.

A West Papuan human rights defender has called for more Pacific islands countries to speak up internationally about human rights abuses in her homeland. Audio

A rebel group waging war against the Indonesian state in West Papua claims it's using child soldiers within its ranks. Audio

Fiji's diplomatic relations with Indonesia have come under intense scrutiny in Parliament this week over human rights abuses in West Papua.

The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has officially submitted an application for full membership in the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, says he will raise concerns over human rights abuses in West Papua with his Indonesian counterpart.

Vanuatu's Foreign Minister Ralph Reganvanu says the Pacific Islands' Forum needs to be stronger in its stance regarding West Papua.