However, the Indonesian government has dismissed the accusations as "baseless", saying that all those killed were members of an armed criminal group.

Prabowo Subianto first made his name as an Indonesian military leader trying to crush East Timor’s push for independence. Today he is president — and his government is fighting another colonial war in ...

Escalating violence in Indonesia’s West Papua region is threatening the security of the largely Indigenous population amid intensified clashes between Indonesian security forces and separatist rebels, ...

The original version of this post was written by Girard Lopez and published in New Bloom on April 16, 2023. The following edited version is published on Global Voices under a content partnership ...

Apart from the brutality it undergirds, almost always fuelling violence, there’s something truly unhinged about political disinformation, especially in Indonesian-occupied West Papua because it’s so ...

A recent report details genocide against the indigenous people of West Papua carried out by the Indonesian government, which has occupied the territory since the 1960s. The report, “A slow-motion ...

She wears many caps within the Baptist community, and now Tracy Valentine has taken on a faith-focused role with an ...

More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organizations and religious groups called on March 20 for a boycott of products allegedly implicated in the "ecocide" of the region, according to a ...

Authorities in the Indonesian territory have blamed the killing on a separatist rebel group, which last year was responsible for kidnapping another New Zealand pilot. By Yan Zhuang and Muktita ...