Papua

The opposition SODELPA party in Fiji says it's disappointed by the United Nations decision to reject a petition from the people of West Papua calling for an act of self determination.

Indonesia's Ambassador to Samoa, Tonga and New Zealand says protesters supporting West Papua independence should have sought a government permit of approval to stage the action.

An investigation into a fatal incident on Papua's south coast last month found an Indonesian military officer used gunfire to respond to a melee in a fishing dispute.

The American mining company Freeport McMoran says its compromise with the Indonesian government over Papua's Grasberg mine was an essential step towards extracting underground resources.

The Papua New Guinea Hunters have some unfinished business to attend to in their final match before the start of the Intrust Super Cup playoffs.

Rain in Indonesia has helped with firefighting efforts in the forests and plantations of Kalimantan and Sumatra, but new hotspots have emerged in Papua.

A local police chief in Indonesia's Papua has been stripped of his position following last week's fatal shooting in Deiyai Regency.

One person has been killed and a dozen others wounded after a clash during local elections in Indonesia's Papua province.

Isolated parts of Indonesia's Papua region are to be targetted by accelerated government efforts to improve infrastructure.

Papua has banned the use of birds of paradise as accessories and souvenirs, protecting one of the Indonesian province's most famous endemic species from exploitation.

Production has been hit at the massive Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province as more than 9,000 workers stage an extended strike.

There's been more deadly violence in Indonesia's Papua province, with the body of a 45-year old woman from Maluku province being discovered outside a power plant in Waena, near Jayapura, early on…

A high demand for vegetables in Papua's Jayawijaya regency has prompted a regional growing programme in ten districts this year.

Indonesia's government has completed its assessment of the damage caused by a cruise ship to a coral reef system in West Papua earlier this month.

The Papua administration wants 10 percent of the shares in the copper and gold miner, PT Freeport Indonesia, if they are divested.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health will visit Papua as part of a two-week trip to Indonesia.

The Immigration Office in Indonesia's Papua has banned two French journalists from entering Indonesia for the next six months for allegedly violating the 2011 Immigration Law.

An Aboriginal elder and artist says she's upset a mural she created in support of West Papua has been destroyed but it won't stop her, or her community, from advocating for the region's independence…

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister says Sri Lankan asylum seekers living in Australian-run camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island are welcome to return home.