Pulau Irian terletak ... Secara resmi nama Irian Jaya digunakan hingga 2002. Kemudian, nama provinsi tersebut diganti menjadi Papua sesuai UU No 21/2001 Otonomi Khusus Papua. Kata Irian merupakan ...

2000-07-07 04:00:00 PDT Jakarta-- Less than a year after East Timor voted to sever itself from Indonesia, calls for independence for the resource-rich province of Irian Jaya are making this ...

Wilayah yang masuk negara Indonesia kurang lebih 418.707,7 kilometer persegi, sedangkan wilayah lainnya masuk Papua Nugini. Papua Barat terletak di ujung barat Pulau Papua, yang dahulu bernama Irian ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 9 -- Activity in Indonesia's remote Irian Jaya province remained at a standstill Monday after clashes between security forces and independence supporters left at least 40 ...

Rebels have been fighting a low-scale guerrilla war for independence for decades, after Indonesia wrested control of Irian Jaya from the Dutch in the 1960s. Demands for independence have simmered ...

Indonesian lawmakers have voted to give autonomy to the separatist Irian Jaya province. The law does not have the full support of the province's people. Working late into the evening, Indonesia's ...

Search and rescue teams in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya have found the wreckage of a plane that disappeared on Monday carrying top security officials. A military official told the BBC that ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Irian Jaya late at night on Saturday, the National Centre for Seismology reported. The tremors were felt at 22:46:28 IST at a ...