West Papua

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.

The Solomon Islands Foreign Minister says the Melanesian Spearhead Group as a collective supports the right of West Papuans to self-determination.

The Solomon Islands Foreign Minister says the Melanesian Spearhead Group as a collective supports the right of West Papuans to self-determination.

A West Papuan leader says Indonesian lobbying of regional governments should not dilute the case for West Papuan membership in the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

A leading West Papuan independence activist has drawn a parallel between Indonesian treatment of convicted drug smugglers with that of West Papuans.

A petition to encourage Fijian solidarity with the people of West Papua as the region applies to join the Melanesian Spearhead Group will go to the government in late April.

A petition to encourage Fijian solidarity with the people of West Papua as the region applies to join the Melanesian Spearhead Group will go to the government in late April.

Police in the Indonesia province of Papua have forcibly detained a former policeman who had been jailed on money-laundering charges.