In the same way modern European populations retain about 2% of Neanderthal ancestry, many West Papuans retain about 3% of Denisovan heritage. As the Earth warmed at the end of the Pleistocene ...

The very first asylum seekers on Manus Island, PNG are not those from the MV Tampa. They were West Papuans who fled what was then called Dutch New Guinea in the 1960's when Indonesian forces invaded.

It’s calculated that Indonesian transmigrants outnumber West Papuans by about ten percent, and approximately 25% of the Indigenous population, or more than 500,000 people have been killed.

Papuans, on Thursday, commemorated the 62nd anniversary of the integration of West Papua, New Guinea Island's western half, ...

Source: SBS News West Papuans around Australia have raised their Morning Star flag, a potent symbol of their struggle for independence from Indonesia, to mark the 60th anniversary of the first ...

Prabowo’s trip to Canberra and Port Moresby: The fate of West Papuans in an uncertain world In the geopolitical games taking place in the Indo Pacific, West Papua's history and fate has been relegated ...

In March this year Herman Wainggai caused a problem at an ALP branch meeting in the outer-Melbourne suburb of Eltham. His speech on West Papua was so extraordinary in what it revealed that those ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Movement ... He claimed that most of them are non-Indigenous Papuans (OAP) and therefore suspected of being government ...

chairperson of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), handed a petition signed by 1.8 million West Papuans to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.

Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day ...