Delegates called for Irian Jaya, or West Papua as it is also known, to break away from Indonesian rule as East Timor did last year. But the leadership elected by the congress, The Papua Presidium, has ...

On Friday, Irian Jaya natives commemorated their traditional independence day from their former Dutch colonizers amid a heavy military crackdown ordered by the government of President Abdurrahman ...

Jakarta formally incorporated it as Irian Jaya in 1969 after a U.N.-recognized act of free choice which Papuans say was flawed. Since then, rebels belonging to the Free Papua Movement have been ...

Soldiers in Indonesia's eastern province of Irian Jaya shot dead four highland tribespeople for raising the separatist Morning Star flag last week, a rights monitor said Wednesday.

Dutch newsmen at The Hague conference, where Indonesia and The Netherlands were trying to settle the status of West New Guinea (or Irian, as the Indonesians call it), knew that negotiations had ...

2000-07-07 04:00:00 PDT Jakarta-- Less than a year after East Timor voted to sever itself from Indonesia, calls for independence for the resource-rich province of Irian Jaya are making this ...

World News: JAYAPURA, Indonesia: Police in Indonesia's restless easternmost province of Irian Jaya have arrested a fifth leader of the independence movement, an o ...

Indonesia's Irian Jaya region, previously known as West Irian and West Papua, was hit by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake. No casualties or damage has been reported yet.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Irian Jaya late at night on Saturday, the National Centre for Seismology reported. The tremors were felt at 22:46:28 IST at a ...