A former police officer is believed to be the perpetrator, acting on orders from a rogue faction of Papuan separatists.

A plan to create three new provinces in the Papua region highlights how Jakarta's development approach has failed to resolve a long-running conflict. With a more violent armed separatist ...

The pro-independence armed fighters are led by Egianus Kogeya, a member of the TPNPB, the armed wing of the Free Papua ...

West Papua National Liberation Army of Free Papua Organization (TPNPB-OPM) spokesperson claims that the murder was carried out by former police member ...

They were hiding from a military crackdown which displaced thousands in the wake of an attack by armed independence fighters linked to the Free Papua Movement (OPM), who killed a group of ...

Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, initially said the rebels would not release Mr Mehrtens ...

led by the Free Papua Movement (OPM), in an effort to assert and maintain their culture. Anthropologist and historian Eben Kirksey, a scholar at the University of Oxford, points out that the ...

A long-running Papuan separatist movement has flared in recent months ... "Our content defends Indonesia against the hoax narrative of the Free Papua separatist groups." 'We are not monkeys ...

He serves as secretary of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP). On the eve of West Papua Flag Day, an annual commemoration of the declaration of independence by the Free Papua ...

A New Zealand pilot’s abduction focuses attention on Wellington and Canberra’s hands-off approach to the long-running conflict in Indonesia. The Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of ...