The mood in the province is triumphant. Yet most analysts believe Irian Jaya - the government plans to change the name to the locally preferred West Papua soon - is decades away, at least ...

It has rejected the new bill, saying people want a fully independent state of West Papua. President Megawati has said she will never allow that to happen, although she has apologised to Irian Jaya, ...

Jakarta has bowed to demands that the province's name be changed to the locally-preferred Papua, and for the provincial flag to ... first promised autonomy nearly 40 years ago after gaining control of ...

Australian-Indonesian relations improved markedly at the Australian-Indonesian Ministerial Forum in Canberra on Friday, but Australia remains deeply concerned over ongoing violence on Irian Jaya.

Police in Jakarta fired teargas Friday at a crowd supporting independence for the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya. About 300 people gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy and ignored police ...

Indonesian lawmakers have voted to give autonomy to the separatist Irian Jaya province ... Now, the province will be called Papua, which analysts say is an important symbolic change for the ...

1994 Response to 'Border Crossings: Papua New... Response to 'Border Crossings: Papua New Guinea Models in Irian Jaya' by Gabriele Stürzenhofecker (BKI 147-II/III) This is the metadata section. Skip ...

The Howard Government is standing firmly behind its support for Indonesian sovereignty over Irian Jaya, despite evidence ... a reprisal for an attack by Free Papua Movement (OPM) on the Abepura ...

Visiting Irian Jaya, he declared then that the Morning Star could fly, and suggested the province's name could be changed to West Papua. The rest of Wahid's government has taken a hardline ...