JAKARTA (Reuters) - Authorities in Indonesia's Papua region have detained six army officers and launched an investigation into their alleged involvement in the brutal killing of four civilians last ...

JAKARTA/LONDON (Reuters) - As Indonesia celebrated its National Heroes' Day last year, official military social media accounts lavished praise on Corporal Yunanto Nugroho for the "myriad awards he has ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- Army Chief of Staff (KSAD) General Dudung Abdurachman urged the Army task force in Papua to avert from viewing local criminal armed groups (KKB) as enemies but rather approach them ...

Catholics in Indonesia have condemned the brutal torture of a Papuan man by military personnel, with a bishop calling the perpetrators “ungodly and inhumane people.” In a video circulating on social ...

JAKARTA, April 16 (Reuters) - Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Papua region claimed on Sunday to have killed nine army personnel the day before, after Jakarta did not respond to a request for ...

A Catholic organization has joined advocacy groups in calling on Indonesia’s new army chief to change the military’s way of dealing with problems in Papua by prioritizing a humanitarian approach.

In the early afternoon of August 31, an estimated 15 gunmen opened fire with M-16 assault rifles on three Land Cruisers travelling on a mountain road near the huge US-owned Freeport gold and copper ...

JAKARTA, IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s military chief on Tuesday dismissed a separatist group claim that they had killed more than a dozen government soldiers who were searching for a New ...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — A military helicopter carrying 12 people has gone missing in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua. Papua military spokesman Muhammad Aidi said the Russian-made Mi-17 ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu Ann Marie Yastishock visited Port Moresby General Hospital and saw the work of U.S. Army doctors, ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Six Wisconsin Army National Guard noncommissioned officers visited Papua New Guinea March 20-27 to conduct a senior information exchange with counterparts from the ...