The Jayapura Naval Base (Lantamal X) in Papua has intensified patrols in Indonesian waters bordering Papua New Guinea (PNG) ...

Petronela Merauje, 43, is on a mission to protect Papua's mangroves, women's rights and local traditions. (Photo: Facebook/Petronela Merauje) New: You can now listen to articles. JAKARTA: Papua ...

Jayapura—then already the largest city in West Papua—had more than twenty movie theatres. “Jayapura was like Hong Kong,” Siegfried Zöllner, a German missionary, wrote in his memoir about ...

Indigenous Awyu tribal members in Papua lambasted a court decision that effectively greenlights palm oil company PT Indo Asiana Lestari’s plans to raze 26,326 hectares (65,000 acres) of primary ...

A joint Indonesian military-police team has restored security at Aminggaru Ilaga Airport in Central Papua’s Puncak District following a disturbance by ...

The Ogoney forests are in West Papua province, while the rest are in Papua province’s Jayapura district. Together, they span 39,911 hectares (98,622 acres), an area half the size of New York City.

For the first time since Catholicism took root in Papua over a century ago, the Jayapura Diocese will be headed by a native Papuan, monsignor Yanuarius Theofilus Matopai You.

Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and returned to his native New Zealand. Mehrtens’s kidnapping was a personal trauma — ...

At least four people were killed and several buildings damaged after a shallow, 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua on Thursday, the country's disaster agency said.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Capital of Papua, Jayapura, has been struck by another earthquake on Tuesday evening, January 3, at 9:55 PM local time. The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency ...

Jayapura, Indonesia — Gunmen stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot shortly after it landed in Indonesia’s restive Papua region on Monday, and they released two health workers ...

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