JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 9 -- Activity in Indonesia's remote Irian Jaya province remained at a standstill Monday after clashes between security forces and independence supporters left at least 40 ...

Irian Jaya is home to a large native Melanesian population, mostly Christians, who share no ethnic, cultural or religious ties to the rest of overwhelmingly Muslim Indonesia. Advertisement Article ...

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Separatist tensions have long been brewing in Irian Jaya, which Jakarta annexed in 1963. Many accuse Indonesia of years of human rights abuses and complain it has given them little in return for ...

Indonesia has detained two independence leaders in Irian Jaya and threatened to haul in others, raising fears of new separatist violence in the eastern province. 2 Separatists Held in Irian Jaya ...

TIMIKA, Indonesia — Were it not for the U.S.-owned mine that shares the snowcapped mountains with the wreckage of allied bombers from World War II and tribesmen who have clung to Stone Age ...

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 ...

Indonesian lawmakers have voted to give autonomy to the separatist Irian Jaya province. The law does not have the full support of the province's people. Working late into the evening, Indonesia's ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck Irian Jaya, Indonesia on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km, it added.