If you visit Indonesia’s National Library—home to 7.7 million physical books—and do a search with the keywords “West Papua”, “Irian Jaya” or even simply “Papua”, you’ll find a rather modest number of ...

The Indonesian-occupied nation of West Papua has called for urgent international intervention against Indonesia’s intensification of what a 2016 report called “slow motion genocide.” West Papua is ...

Hundreds of Papuan students and activists held a protest in Jakarta on Dec. 1 to demand that that the Indonesian military and police be withdrawn from Papua and West Papua provinces and a fresh ...

Colonialism in Our Times” has unsurprisingly elicited a strong negative reaction from the Indonesian government.

Protests have gripped the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua in the past month. A flare up last week saw at least 33 people killed and dozens more injured in Wamena, Papua. This latest ...

A demonstration by West Papuans in The Hague, against the Indonesian government. Wikipedia. Public domain. In guidebooks it is referred to as the country’s final frontier. It is a vast territory ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Nearly 600 people were arrested in Indonesia over the weekend, after ...

One day around 2010, Agustinus Tomba and his neighbors heard the sound of heavy machinery in their ancestral forest, in the Indonesian province of Papua. When they went to see what was going on, they ...

West Papua (Irian Jaya) is the twenty-sixth province in Indonesia and occupies the easternmost region of the archipelago. West Papua, then known as the West New Guinea, was colonized by the Dutch in ...

Indonesian security forces have killed at least six people, including two children, in Dogiyai regency, West Papua, allegedly in retaliation for the killing of a police officer by an unknown assailant ...