THE separatists in Irian Jaya may be a long way from gaining independence from Indonesia, but they do have a flag, called the Morning Star. Each evening when, in awed silence, it is lowered and put ...

Police in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya have seized the headquarters of the pro-independence militia in the provincial capital, Jayapura. At least 200 armed riot police took control of the ...

Ilaga, Indonesia-- By dusk, Cpl. Sahrudin was dead, hunted to exhaustion and pierced with three long arrows. Next to him, his lower jaw ripped away and the back of his head blown off by the Indonesian ...

Irian Jayan separatists wielding machetes and axes have killed two police officers and a civil servant in an attack in the restive Indonesian province. Residents said the mob launched an assault on a ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Irian Jaya late at night on Saturday, the National Centre for Seismology reported. The tremors were felt at 22:46:28 IST at a ...

JAKARTA Indonesia's restive Irian Jaya Province should retain 80 percent of revenue from local resources under a special autonomy status promised by Jakarta for May 1, Irian Jaya officials said on ...

Crowds sang hymns and waved separatist flags as they accompanied the body of a slain independence leader to his home in Indonesia’s restive Irian Jaya province. Thousands of mourners filled the ...

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:The State Minister forEastern Indonesian Development, Manuel Kaisiepo, hasdenied that the Pacific Islands nations support thefreedom of Irian Jaya, otherwise known as West ...

Independence supporters in Indonesia's eastern province of Irian Jaya on Saturday mark what they consider the territory's independence day. Separatists have been fighting with Indonesia for 40 years, ...