Indonesia may have again used the chemical weapon White Phosphorus on indigenous West Papuans in Kiwirok. I am calling for an urgent international investigation into these very serious allegations.

Ancient “pig feast” asserts indigenous Melanesians’ ancestral land rights in face of government-backed agricultural programs.

Yet under the Indonesian government's Transmigration program, the indigenous West Papuans are being reduced to a minority population due to an annual influx of over 10,000 families of sponsored ...

Most Papuans in rural areas desire more than an independent nation-state. They hope for new systems of governance based on indigenous cultural practices. This would include indigenous modes of ...

The region is home to Indigenous Papuans and a growing population of migrants from other parts of Indonesia, layering intercommunal tensions on top of the conflict over the region’s governance. An ...

"As the Commission for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, we have drawn the attention of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) to these problems: ancestral ...

the seizing of power and control over resources that reap profits for a handful of people and do nothing for the interests of farmers or indigenous Papuans. Expropriation is an action by ...

The five other passengers, who were indigenous Papuans, were released. The kidnapping was part of a long-running, often ...