Human Rights Watch submits the following information regarding Papua New Guinea's implementation of recommendations it accepted through its 2015 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as well as information ...

Indonesian soldiers stand guard during a protest in Timika, Papua province, Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Labeling the TNPB-OPM a terrorist organization will only complicate the resolution of Papua’s ...

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Police officers walk outside the site where two suspected militants were killed during a raid in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Wednesday, January 6, 2021. This arrest marks the third time JAD ...

A new Greenpeace report has identified a litany of loopholes and violations in Indonesia’s forest and palm oil moratoriums as well as other forest protection regulations. The report alleges that ...

Indonesia’s Papua region, comprising the western half of the island of New Guinea, lost an area of rainforest five times the size of London since 2001, according to a new study. Deforestation in Papua ...

April 29 marked one year since Indonesia’s coordinating minister for political, legal, and security affairs Mahfud MD announced that “organizations and people in Papua who commit mass violence are ...

Indonesia's Papuan land is the western half of New Guinea—the world's second-largest island—which hosts extensive old-growth forests, including mangroves and peat swamps. It has more plant species ...