TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Carstenz Peace Operation Task Force revealed that the Papuan armed group or KKB, Free Papua Organization (OPM), obtained money to purchase weapons through the government’s ...

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Zumretay Arkin, Member of the UNPO Presidency and Vice President at the World Uyghur Congress chaired the session, in her ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- The Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) Commander Yudo Margono in a press statement on Tuesday announced that the army’s status in Papua has been elevated to “combat alert” following an ...

The Catholic Church has been present in Papua for 127 years since the arrival of Father Cornelis Le Cocq d’Armanville, a Dutch Jesuit missionary priest, in 1894, but no native Papuan priest has ever ...

The Indonesian government has responded to Australia and PNG's landmark defence treaty, saying it expects the two nations to ...

An indigenous Papuan farmer, Marius Betera, has died after allegedly being assaulted by a police officer when complaining about a palm oil company bulldozing his banana plot. Police at the district ...

A confrontation between security forces and a rebel group in Indonesia's volatile Papua region resulted in the death of five Papuan independence fighters. The rebels, armed with military-grade weapons ...

The case highlights ongoing tensions in the Indonesian province, where calls for independence are growing amid accusations of ...

The Papuan olive python, native to New Guinea's rainforests, is a large, non-venomous snake known for its unique ability to change colour. This elusive python can shift its skin tone, a phenomenon ...

Indonesia's human rights commission said on Monday that a fact-finding team believed the military had tortured a pastor in the country's Papua region in a bid to extract information on stolen military ...