Most Papuans say they were denied their right to choose and continue to demand a separate nation. Although the independence ...

Also in July, a series of pro-independence demonstrations broke out in towns across Irian Jaya on the anniversary of a 1961 proclamation of independence by an armed nationalist group, the Free ...

From the Arctic to Peru, from Switzerland to the equatorial glaciers of Irian Jaya in Indonesia, massive ice fields, monstrous glaciers, and sea ice are disappearing, fast. When temperatures rise ...

Irian Jaya, and East Timor. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) Indonesia's newly-inaugurated Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto delivers a speech during the presidential inauguration ceremony at ...

Just one day after President Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration, a minister announced plans to resume the transmigration program ...

Here, the monsoon forest of Irian Jaya whispers through the leaves as sociable lories soar from branch to branch and confident parrots fly so close, they sometimes brush the heads of awestruck ...

Prabowo Subianto will be inaugurated on Oct. 20, 2024. Just days after his 73rd birthday, former army general Prabowo Subianto will become Indonesia's eighth president on Oct. 20. This is 10 years to ...

The new government faces separatist activities in the provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya, East Timor has yet to recover from its vote for independence, and ethnic violence has recently erupted in ...

In September, 1959, six Europeans leave Cook's Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua or Irian Jaya, to trek north to the far side of the island. The journey (450 miles ...

Seasonal swamp-woodland in Wasur National Park, Papua Province, Indonesia. One of WWF's earliest successes in the former province of Irian Jaya (now Papua Province), Indonesia, was to help establish ...

Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a ...