An Indonesian soldier was killed in a rebel attack in West Papua, the latest in a surge of separatist violence.

An Indonesian soldier was killed in a separatist attack in Moskona Utara Subdistrict, Teluk Bintuni District, West Papua Province, the military said on

Indonesian police fired warning shots on Monday during a protest in Papua by several hundred university students opposing plans to extend a special autonomy status that critics say has not done enough to help people in one the country's poorest areas.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on Thursday denied claims by separatist rebels in the Papua region that at least 17 gold miners slain by insurgents were members of security forces. The rebels said they attacked a gold panning camp in the ...

Rescuers on Saturday recovered two bodies from an underground mine operated by Freeport Indonesia in Papua, a police official said, nearly two weeks after a landslide trapped seven workers. The landslide occurred on September 8 when material from an extraction point flowed at one of five sections of the Grasberg Block Cave underground gold and copper mine in Tembagapura,

JAKARTA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in Indonesia's Southwest Papua province have foiled an attempt to smuggle eight black-capped lories, a protected bird species endemic to Papua, officials said on Thursday.

Indonesia is bolstering its military presence in disputed Papua province, following the assassination of a senior military officer on April 26. On Sunday, Indonesian media outlets reported that the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) had deployed 400 ...

Hundreds of Papuans held rallies across at least eight cities in Indonesia on Tuesday to renew calls for independence, as a separatist group declared it had established a provisional government in exile.