On this front, it was Russian (Soviet) forces that assisted Indonesia during Operation Trikora in 1961, in which it wrested control of West Papua from the Dutch. Nonetheless, the Australian ...

April 10 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck near the south coast of Indonesia's West Papua on Thursday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organization ... Moskona District, at 07:10 WIT (Eastern Indonesia Time), the group was shot at by an armed civilian group," ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The commander of the West Papua Army, Mathias L. Wenda, passed away on April 12, 2025, as confirmed by the spokesperson of the West Papua National Liberation Army–Free Papua ...

ensions flared in West Papua over the weekend after members of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) rebel group opened fire on a National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) delegation accompanying ...

Indonesia’s human rights commission has ... counter what it calls “criminal armed groups” affiliated with the West Papua independence campaign, the military is now engaged in the food ...

On April 13, 2025, @bugsybazzatone shared a video from Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, where they were playing a ...

Rebels in Indonesia’s Papua region said on Thursday they have killed more than 17 people since the weekend, claiming that they were soldiers in disguise as gold miners, and police said the ...

EnQuest and its joint venture (JV) partners have won two production sharing contract (PSC) blocks in Papua Barat, Indonesia. The company received confirmation from the Ministry of Energy and ...

Scattered light rain showers are expected. The high will reach 83° on this humid day. Good air quality (0-50) Primary pollutant O₃ 15 ppb Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It ...