Security forces torture volunteers during humanitarian mission in North Moskona, Teluk Bintuni

On 16 October 2025, members of the Police and the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) reportedly tortured ten Papuans, including two volunteers from the Manokwari Institute for Research, Assessment and Development of Legal Aid (LP3BH Manokwari), in North Moskona District, Teluk Bintuni Regency, Papua Barat Province.

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Military operation in Intan Jaya leaves 15 dead and 145 displaced as accounts contradict official narrative

Preliminary field reports allege that Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) units raided the Soanggama Village, Hitadipa District, Intan Jaya Regency, Central Papua, on 15 October 2025 before dawn. According to media reports and local informants, military members conducted house-to-house searches and opened indiscriminate fire, resulting in 15 fatalities.

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Indigenous community faces criminalization and land seizures as Merauke Food Estate Project advances

he Indonesian government’s ambitious National Strategic Project (PSN) in Merauke has entered a critical phase marked by escalating conflict between indigenous landowners and corporations backed by state authority, with customary land seizures now accompanied by police criminalization of community members resisting plantation development on their ancestral territories.

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Constitutional court rejects formal review of controversial TNI Law despite strong dissent

Indonesia’s Constitutional Court rejected formal review petitions challenging Law No. 3/2025 on the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), ruling that the legislative process did not violate the 1945 Constitution despite procedural controversies and widespread criticism

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Police crackdown on peaceful demonstration at Cenderawasih University: Four students arrested, a journalist intimidated

On 30 September 2025, a peaceful demonstration organised by Solidaritas Peduli Uncen (SPU) at the Cenderawasih University (Uncen) campus gate in Perumnas 3, Waena, Jayapura, was forcibly dispersed by police.

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Impunity concerns: Sorong Police reluctant to investigate allegations of torture and arbitrary detention

On 7 October 2025, the Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua) branch office in Sorong urged the Southwest Papua People’s Assembly (MRP PBD) to take an active role in monitoring and supporting the legal process into allegations of arbitrary detention and torture committed by officers of the Sorong City Police against Papuan civilian, Mr Ortizan F. Tarage on 15 May 2025.

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Detention update: Son Balingga’s arbitrary detention exceeds legal limits as authorities shift responsibility

he arbitrary detention of Mr Son Balingga, a civilian wrongfully arrested in Yahukimo on 5 August 2025, has now exceeded 120 days without any evidence linking him to armed groups or criminal activity, violating Indonesian criminal procedure laws (KUHAP).

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