West Papua

A number of international rallies are taking place today to call for foreign journalists and non government organisations to be allowed in to Indonesia's Papua region.

Health authorities in Indonesia's Papua region say they're aiming to erase malaria by 2030.

The Chinese company Felix Gold is planning to build a copper smelter in Timika in Indonesia's Papua province.

The campaign to push West Papuan independence from Indonesia continues to spread in Africa with a Free West Papua protest being held in Nigeria.

The general secretary of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua has been in Solomon Islands to lobby support for his organisation's bid to join the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

A delegation of West Papuan representatives has been arrested after claiming they were told by an Indonesian minister that it is time for negotiation about West Papua.

An announcement by Indonesia's Human Rights Commission that it will recommend a pro-justicia inquiry into killings of four students in Papua last year has been described as a good first step.

The Vanuatu government says Indonesian relief assistance will have no bearing on the West Papuan bid to join the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

One of the representatives on the Pacific region's new Specialist Sub-Committee on Regionalism says the issue of West Papua looms as a priority issues.

Preparations are underway to declare the Indonesian province of West Papua a conservation province.

Vanuatu's West Papua Unification Committee has dismissed the credentials of a man claiming to be a West Papuan envoy.

Amnesty International says it has concerns for the safety of four students who have been tortured or otherwise ill-treated by police in Indonesia's Papua province.

A prominent West Papuan activist says his movement's relationship with Papua New Guinea is stronger than ever and his recent deportation from Port Moresby was over visa issues.

Youth in West Papua say they are frightened in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Yahukimo regency.

The office of Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister denies that the West Papuan leader Benny Wenda has been deported.

There's an uneasy calm in Yahukimo regency of Indonesia's Papua province following an incident at a West Papuan fundraising event which left a person dead.

One person has been killed and three wounded in a shooting in West Papua that rights groups claim was another act of brutality by the Indonesian military at a peaceful rally.

An Indonesian soldier trying to check whether the firearm of a senior officer was empty before boarding a flight in Papua has killed a young boy and critically injured the child's father.

The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has criticised the Indonesian government's breakup of demonstrations in West Papua last year, saying it breached international conventions on torture.