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Feminist calls to enforce law against liquor sellers in Papua

Mimika Chapter Ros Namsa Kabes urged the Mimika district government and local police to enforce legal sanctions ...

Government must better protect Papuan women to avert separatism: Kabes

Mimika Chapter Ros Namsa Kabes stated here on Saturday. However, Kabes questioned where the money would go following ...

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Indonesia grapples with ending tensions in Papua and West Papua

Indonesian security personnel in Papua and West Papua have striven to restore law and order, while the central ...

Shopping malls, schools in Jayapura remain closed day after rioting

A day after Jayapura bore witness to riots, residents of this capital city of Papua Province yet found several shopping ...

TNI, police deploy trucks to move thousand Papuan demonstrators home

Indonesian military (TNI) and police (Polri) deployed 10 trucks, Friday, to move thousand native Papuans home from the ...

Internet access restricted in Papua to curb fake news: Tito

Indonesian Police Chief, General Tito Karnavian, defended the Communication and Informatics Ministry's policy to ...

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Indonesians face challenge ahead to fight racis, separatism in Papua

A circle of violence broke out again in the Indonesian province of Papua on Wednesday and ended with the deaths of an ...

Military, police chiefs hold closed-door meeting with Papuan figures

Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Air Chief Marshall Hadi Tjahjanto and National Police Chief General Tito Karnavian ...

Biak's Papuan communities thanked for preserving national integrity

Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Air Chief Marshall Hadi Tjahjanto has expressed gratitude to the Papuan customary ...

Two Surabaya TNI officers questioned for racist slurs

Two Indonesian Military (TNI) officers were questioned for their alleged racist slurs against students in Surabaya, ...

Military, police chiefs hold dialog with Papuan leaders in Biak

Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Air Chief Marshall Hadi Tjahjanto and National Police Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian ...

Rais exhorts government to delay capital city relocation

National Mandate Party (PAN) patron Amien Rais has appealed to the central government to delay its plan to move ...

Community leaders in Biak reject racism against native Papuans

Leaders of several ethnic community-based organisations in Biak Numfor District, Papua Province, have deplored the ...

Ikmapal draws Jokowi's attention to Papuans' welfare, social justice

Association of Papuan Students in Lampung (Ikmapal) urged President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to divert more focus on ...

East Java Police avers no Papuan students faced racism

The East Java Police dismissed reports of its officers having spoken a racist word while securing 43 Papuan students ...