West Papua

New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, says Indonesia is making progress in West Papua with the welcoming of a press pack.

Advocates for West Papua in New Zealand are protesting a major Pacific trade show put on by Indonesia.

A human rights group advocating for West Papuans in Indonesia says there were more than 20 extra-judicial killings by the military there last year.

Leading West Papuan human rights activist Ferry Marisan has died in Jayapura.

The West Papua National Committee has come out against a reconfiguration of military forces fighting for independence from Indonesia.

The search for a missing helicopter in Indonesia's West Papua with a dozen military personnel on board is entering its eleventh day.

It's 21 years since a massacre on Biak Island in West Papua and an activist says there's yet to be any action taken against the perpetrators.

The main organisation advancing West Papuan independence abroad has committed to ending the use of child soldiers by armed rebels fighting under its flag.

A Polish man imprisoned in Indonesia's Papua province for treason says his government has been of little help to him.

Indonesian paramilitary police are on stand-by in West Papua to start ground searches for the army helicopter missing in the mountainous Pegunungan Bintang District.

Armed rebel groups in Indonesia's West Papua have reportedly united to form a new army under a single command.

Indonesia is deploying several aircraft to West Papua in an expanded search for a dozen military personnel who went missing on a helicopter flight.

Indonesia will use a landmark business and trade exposition next week in New Zealand to launch a fresh diplomatic push in the Pacific.

A West Papuan human rights defender has called for more Pacific islands countries to speak up internationally about human rights abuses in her homeland. Audio