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 — ...

West Papua—which sits on the western half of the island of New Guinea, about 1,900 miles east of the Indonesian capital Jakarta—has seen decades of unrest Lon Tweeten for TIME.

The West Papua provincial government is intensively coordinating with the Teluk Bintuni district government to advance the ...

Today, West Papua remains Indonesia’s most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken province and human rights abuses are rife. Skip to cookie privacy notice Skip to main content ...

West Papua’s forests, home to some of the country’s rarest birds, are also prime hunting grounds for illegal poachers. A bird of paradise can fetch as much as $1,500 on the black market in ...

Militant rebels in Indonesia’s restive West Papua are urging their most feared comrade to release New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who’s been held hostage for a year.

Indonesia deploys troops to West Papua as protests spread. At least 300 troops arrive in Manokwari as protests spread with reports of a prison break and airport attack in Sorong.

In West Papua, MMP’s parent company, Ciptana Group, controls 71,445 hectares (176,544 acres) of land — nearly the size of New York City — through its four subsidiaries, according to data ...

West Papua occupies the Indonesian half of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world after Greenland. Indonesia unilaterally annexed the former Dutch colony in 1969 with the United Nations ...

West Papua, which is located on the island of New Guinea, is a former Dutch colony that was temporarily designated as part of Indonesia upon the withdrawal of the Dutch administration.

Similar resin was collected during the 20th century around West Papua and used for fires before gas and electric lighting was introduced. The tree resin artefact found at Mololo Cave dates back to ...