West Papua

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has welcomed a recommendation to make the Indonesian province a priority on the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' agenda.

Papua New Guinea soldiers have reportedly claimed territory just over the border in Papua, ordering locals to lower the Indonesian flag.

Police in Indonesia's Papua province say they will continue to follow up a fatal incident in Tolikara regency despite the two sides making peace.

A guest house is to be built in Indonesia's Papua province for the Indonesian president Joko Widodo.

A committee in the Papua Legislative Council in Indonesia has expressed doubt that police will reveal the perpetrators behind the fatal shooting in Tolikara Regency two weeks ago.

The Indonesian Red Cross Society says water is an urgent need for communities in Papua still suffering from a cold snap.

The police commander in Tolikara in Indonesia's Papua has been re-assigned nearly two weeks after a riot, in which kiosks and a musholla or small mosque, were burnt down.

The Australia West Papua Association is calling on Pacific Islands Forum leaders to address the human rights situation in Indonesia's Papuan provinces.

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has hit the Indonesian province of Papua.

Reports from Indonesia's Papua region say a worker has been killed at the Freeport Indonesia mine.

Indonesia's intelligence chief Sutiyoso says foreigners may have been involved in an attack last week in the country's Papua region which left a mosque burnt, several people injured and one dead..

The Indonesian president and the country's security leaders have moved to calm tension in the aftermath of the burning of a mosque in the country's Papua region.

Reports from Indonesia's Papua province say thousands of people in Lanny Jaya have received food supplies to help them survive a recent series of hailstorms.

East Timor's former president Jose Ramos Horta says he doesn't think an independence campaign for Indonesia's West Papua province will be successful.

Aid is on its way to isolated districts in Indonesia's Papua region after a freak hailstorm killed 11 people.

Reports from Indonesia's Papua province say 11 people have died in a freak hailstorm.

The United Nations Population Fund says maternal health in Papua continues to lag behind the rest of Indonesia.

The West Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma says his personal preference is that the leader for his people's self-determination movement be based within West Papua.

The West Papua police have received a boost to their armoury with new firearms and vehicles from the National Police in Jakarta.