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Govt, military, police urged to maintain state authority in Papua

Responding to the recent developments in Papua and West Papua, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR), ...

Govt must ignore Benny Wenda's maneuver: UI law professor

Hikmahanto Juwana, professor of international law at the University of Indonesia, has urged the Indonesian government ...

Police urged to clamp down on anti-Indonesian campaigners in Papua

Hengky Heselo, a native Papuan community leader in Jayawijaya District, Papua Province, appealed to the police to crack ...

Air Force refutes report of Hercules C-130 crash

Commander of the Silas Papare Airbase, Commodore Budi Achmadi, has denied a report of a Hercules C-130 transport plane ...

Police vows crackdown on liquor producers in Jayawijaya before Xmas

The Indonesian police in Jayawijaya District, Papua Province, pledged to crack down on producers, distributors, and ...

Police in Papua seize 884 liquor bottles, detain truck drivers

The Indonesian police in Benawa Sub-district, Yalimo District, Papua, seized 884 bottles of liquor on November 2, 2020, ...

Commission urges govt to look into 'gross' human rights violations

The National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has asked the Joko Widodo-Ma'ruf Amin administration to ...

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Papuans split over status quo on autonomy

Over the past few months, several sections of communities in the Indonesian province of Papua have been deliberating ...

Prosperity eludes all despite 20 years of special autonomy: community

Yali Hubula tribal community members in Jayawijaya District, Papua Province, asserted that the central ...

Papua's Arso Kota still safeguarded by 400 police personnel

Some 400 police personnel continue to safeguard Arso Kota, Arso Sub-district, Keerom District, Papua, as a ...

Police confirm 16 native Papuans injured in Jayawijaya tribal clash

Some 16 native Papuans suffered arrow wounds in a tribal clash erupting in Jayawijaya District's area, Papua, on ...

Planned certification of preachers is unjust, discriminative: MPR

Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Chairman Hidayat Nur Wahid strongly believes that the ...

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Awaiting final fate of Papua, West Papua's special autonomy funds

The Papuan people are currently consolidating to show their supports for a necessity to evaluate and continue the ...

816 security personnel deployed in Jayapura as precautionary measure

Some 816 police and military personnel are on standby in areas around Jayapura, Papua, as a precautionary measure ...

Seven Papuans tried in Balikpapan are not political prisoners: police

Indonesia's National Police spokesman, Inspector General Argo Yuwono, dismissed a claim that seven Papuan youths, ...