We have received confirmation that earlier today Sebby Sambom was released from Abepura Prison in West Papua. Sebby had been sentenced to 2 years in prison this summer following his part in a peaceful ...

JAKARTA, IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Separatist rebels asked for the immediate release Saturday of the New Zealand pilot who’s been held hostage for almost a year in Indonesia’s restive Papua region ...

New Zealand has urged rebels in Indonesia's West Papua region to release a pilot they abducted last year to leverage him to broker independence from the mainland. Philip Mehrtens, 37, was kidnapped in ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Separatist rebels asked for the immediate release Saturday of the New Zealand pilot who has been held hostage for almost a year in Indonesia's restive Papua region. Egianus ...

Philip Mehrtens, from Christchurch, was captured early Tuesday by independence fighters from the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Organization, who stormed his ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Rebels in Indonesia's Papua region said on Thursday they have killed more than 17 people since the weekend, claiming that they were soldiers disguised as gold miners, and police ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The spokesperson of The National Liberation Army of West Papua - Free Papua Movement (TPNPB - OPM) Sebby Sambom claimed that the two people apprehended by joint state apparatus on ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Spokesperson for the West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organization (TPNPB-OPM), Sebby Sambom revealed the reason his group attacked the Indonesian military (TNI) ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): Separatist rebels asked for the immediate release Saturday of the New Zealand pilot who's been held hostage for almost a year in Indonesia’s restive Papua region. Egianus ...