Indonesia

Hundreds of Chinese nationals have reportedly been found working illegally in gold mines in Indonesia's Papua region.

A growing grassroots solidarity network has prompted the establishment of a West Papua Desk in New Zealand.

Indonesia's most active volcano has shown danger signs with a series of small eruptions, and authorities have ordered villagers living on its slopes to leave and hikers to stay clear.

Four men who attacked a police station with samurai swords in Indonesia have been shot dead, authorities say, the latest of a spate of terrorist attacks in the country.

There has been a second terrorist attack carried out in the Indonesian city of Surabaya in a matter of days, with a suicide bombing at a police headquarters.

Members of one family were behind a wave of blasts targeting three churches in Indonesia's second city of Surabaya, police say.

There should have been more transparency around a government-led delegation's visit to West Papua last month, a leader of Solomon Islands civil society says.

A Solomon Islands civil society worker says a delegation from his country which visited Indonesia sought a balanced view on West Papua human rights issues. Audio

Nine West Papuans were arrested by Indonesian police in Jayapura today for a small protest over a surprise visit by a Solomon Islands delegation.

The management of the mining company Freeport Indonesia says it will close the operation of its open-pit gold mine in Papua next year.

A group of people set fire to the residence of the head of Pegunungan Bintang regency in a riot in Indonesia's Papua province yesterday.

A former Papua New Guinea government minister has denied that he abused process in granting a fugitive citizenship.

A leading West Papuan pro-independence organisation suspects the arrests of dozens of its supporters by Indonesian police was a diversion tactic.

A member of the pro-independence West Papua National Committee has been freed from prison having completed his jail term.