Indonesia’s plan to clear rainforests half the size of Switzerland for sugarcane plantations isn’t just an agricultural ...

The world's 10 largest islands have been revealed and three are in the same country. The largest island in the world is ...

Papua New Guinea is the country where the most languages are spoken—840, more than twice as many as Europe. Continental ...

The women of the Dani tribe of Papua, Indonesia, practice the tradition of ritually amputating parts of their fingers when a ...

Indonesia's new president Prabowo Subianto has revealed plans to pardon as many as 44,000 convicts - about a third of the country's prison population. It is being cast as a human rights gesture but ...

The ministers who announced the coming amnesty cited prison overcrowding, due mainly to strict drug trafficking laws.

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto will pardon tens of thousands of prisoners ranging from activists convicted of ...

JAKARTA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto will pardon tens of thousands of prisoners ranging from activists convicted of defamation to those jailed in the easternmost ...

The government has the good intention to make Papua more peaceful," Supratman said. Discussions of Papuan independence is a sensitive issue for Indonesia's government, which has long insisted that ...