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West Papua: Yoman Socrates receives summons over statements made on Police actions

West Papua: Yoman Socrates receives summons over statements made on Police actions

West Papua. Pacific Scoop: Report – Translated by TAPOL Bintang Papua, Jayapura: Yoman Socrates: Church is not subordinate to government or security forces – A summons from the police in… Read more »

US scientist in race to learn from Indonesia’s dying glacier

US scientist in race to learn from Indonesia’s dying glacier

(AFP) JAKARTA — The only glacier in the western Pacific could disappear in less than five years, taking with it vital clues about the earth’s changing climate, a US scientist… Read more »

Indonesia’s Last Glaciers

Indonesia’s Last Glaciers

Images of glacier-capped Puncak Jaya, earth’s highest mountain between the Andes and the Himalayas, and an expedition to remove ice cores that may contain clues to climates of the past… Read more »

Indonesia’s last glacier will melt within years from Earth Blog

Indonesia’s last glacier will melt within years from Earth Blog

Indonesia’s Puncak Jaya, earth’s highest island peak and the tallest mountain between the Andes and the Himalayas, holds the last glaciers in the tropical Pacific. Ancient ice from such high,… Read more »

Indonesia’s last glacier will melt within years

Indonesia’s last glacier will melt within years

By ROBIN McDOWELL (AP) – 5 days ago JAKARTA, Indonesia — Lonnie Thompson spent years preparing for his expedition to the remote, mist-shrouded mountains of eastern Indonesia, hoping to chronicle… Read more »

Police chief in Papua attacks media for painting a bleak picture

Police chief in Papua attacks media for painting a bleak picture

Posted at 21:34 on 14 June, 2010 UTC The chief editor of an independent newspaper in Indonesia’s Papua region has denied a claim by Papua’s police commander that journalists covering… Read more »

Indonesia troops storm through West Papua village killing seven people

Indonesia troops storm through West Papua village killing seven people

A media watchdog NGO that observes human rights abuses in West Papua has received reports from Puncak Jaya stating that Indonesia troops have stormed through a village killing seven people…. Read more »

Security condition conducive: Military chief

Security condition conducive: Military chief

  The security condition in Papua is conducive and so far has shown no sign of disturbance to the unitary state of Indonesia, Papua Military chief Maj. Gen. Hotma Marbun… Read more »

Papuan human rights group calls for justice over Kelly Kwalik

Papuan human rights group calls for justice over Kelly Kwalik

THE LACK of any firm evidence of the involvement of “General” Kelly Kwalik in a series of recent terrorist actions in Timika, West Papua, has led the Network of Human… Read more »

Police embedded to help secure Freeport employees

Police embedded to help secure Freeport employees

The authorities have increased security measures at mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia by slipping a police officer into each of the buses transporting company employees between work and home. The… Read more »