An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan separatist armed groups in West Papua has seriously ...

But it has also renewed scrutiny of the controversial and often violent insurgency movement known as the Free Papua Movement. Papua, which borders New Guinea, came under Indonesian control in 1969 ...

The TPNPB is the armed wing of the Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM), or Free Papua Movement, which was created ... As well as drawing new lines on the map, the plan for more provinces in Papua ...

known as the Free Papua Movement. Benny Wenda, who escaped from an Indonesian jail 18 years ago and later received political asylum in Britain, declared himself head of West Papua’s first ...

French reporters Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat have spent the past two weeks in a police jail cell on Indonesia’s island of Papua. The two journalists, who domestic media have reported ...

Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane on a small runway in Paro and abducted Mehrtens on February 7 last year.

The journalists had been in contact with the separatist group Free Papua Movement (OPM), which has been leading the fight against the central government. Papua, which comprises the western half of ...