Most Papuans say they were denied their right to choose and continue to demand a separate nation. Although the independence ...

The two organizations believe that all those who have been imprisoned for alleged involvement in violent political activities -- including those from Aceh, Irian Jaya, and East Timor, the three ...

Just one day after President Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration, a minister announced plans to resume the transmigration program ...

In September, 1959, six Europeans leave Cook's Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua or Irian Jaya, to trek north to the far side of the island. The journey (450 miles ...

Seasonal swamp-woodland in Wasur National Park, Papua Province, Indonesia. One of WWF's earliest successes in the former province of Irian Jaya (now Papua Province), Indonesia, was to help establish ...

Moss forest at an altitude of 2,600 m in the Arfak Mountains, Bird's Head Peninsula, Western Irian Jaya Province, Indonesia. WWF's goals for the conservation of the Vogelkop ecoregion are to increase ...

Working in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands he flew medical supplies around the Islands, and at the same time visited other regions like Irian Jaya and Rabaul in New Britain to witness ...