A few dozen of the best surfers, skaters and bikers around added Waco Surf to their international itineraries, again, for the Swatch Nines surf event this week.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — USA Surfing says it has secured a multimillion-dollar endowment as part of its push to be recertified as the nascent Olympic sport's national governing body after ...

Manokwari, W Papua (ANTARA) - Indonesia's National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) announced on Monday that it prioritizes 821 families in six districts of West Papua in its Foster ...

U.N. special rapporteurs have raised concerns that Indonesia’s food estate project in Merauke district is displacing Indigenous communities, clearing forests without consent, and using military ...

The ULMWP and its supporters consistently question why Indonesia, as the administering power over West Papua, should hold any status within a forum intended to champion Melanesian interests, arguing ...

Dogs ranging from 2 to 13 years old — corgis, dalmatians, pit bulls, Labradors and more — showed off their skills riding waves.

Two international organisations are leading a call for the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to elevate the membership status of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) at their upcoming ...

Mehrtens’s kidnapping was also a major embarrassment for the political elite in Jakarta, and a sign of the military’s failure to “secure” and “pacify” West Papua by armed force. Shortly after his ...

Accompanied by a film crew, Longchamp and his colleague arrived in Indonesia in February with the government’s permission to make a documentary that would involve filming in West Papua. However, ...

Internet access in West Papua was initially slowed down and then disconnected altogether on 21 August in what the information ministry called a “temporary” measure designed “to accelerate the process ...

Is named in honor of Herbert Nigl, an aquarium wholesaler who for the last 25 years supported us by helping obtain new crayfish species from Papua (Indonesia),” researchers said.