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 ...

A plan to create three new provinces in the Papua region highlights how Jakarta's development approach has failed to resolve a long-running conflict. With a more violent armed separatist ...

The pro-independence armed fighters are led by Egianus Kogeya, a member of the TPNPB, the armed wing of the Free Papua ...

TPNPB-OPM has denied the establishment of a new Defense Command (Kodap) III D Dulla in Intan Jaya, Central Papua.

led by the Free Papua Movement (OPM), in an effort to assert and maintain their culture. Anthropologist and historian Eben Kirksey, a scholar at the University of Oxford, points out that the ...

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 Feb. 7, 2023.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Spokesperson of the West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Movement or TPNPB-OPM, Sebby Sambom, said that their group buys weapons through the black market. According to ...

In this undated photo released by West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement, Papuan separatist rebels pose for a photo with a man they said is New Zealander pilot ...

He serves as secretary of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP). On the eve of West Papua Flag Day, an annual commemoration of the declaration of independence by the Free Papua ...

Each regency in Papua receives a minimum of ... resolution amid the ongoing separatist movement in the region. Mandenas explained that through the free meals program, the government aimed to ...