West Papua

A West Papua journalist says although the Indonesian President Joko Widodo has promised West Papua will be open to foreign media, a cabinet minister is saying special permits are still needed.

A New Zealand rights group says the Indonesia's promise to open up Papua to foreign media will allow a better understanding of human rights abuses there.

A New Zealand-based rights group has welcomed the Indonesian President's latest promise to open up West Papua to foreign media.

Church leaders, human rights organisations, academics and international observers have gathered in the capital of the European Union, Brussels, to discuss the human rights situation in Papua.

The president of Indonesia has granted the early release of five West Papuan political prisoners during his visit to Papua province.

Indonesia's President is to make his second official trip to the restive provinces of Papua and West Papua, this coming weekend.

Amnesty International says media and NGO access to the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua remains impeded and has called on Indonesia to change its attitude to foreign observers.

Mass arrests are reported to have been carried out in West Papua on Friday, on the anniversary of Indonesia's annexation of the province.

A group of protestors gathered outside New Zealand's parliament calling on Indonesia to open up access to 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.