Mr Mehrtens sobbed while talking to his family via video and an Indonesian official tried to calm him down by patting his back.

A task force spokesperson said that Phillip Mehrtens’ release was the result of hard work from a small task force team ...

Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a 38-year-old pilot from Christchurch, was working for Indonesian aviation company Susi Air when he ...

Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane ...

A New Zealand pilot who has been freed more than 19 months after being taken hostage by separatists in Indonesia says he is ...

Papua was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 under a United Nations-sponsored ballot that was widely seen as a sham.

Indonesian authorities said Saturday the New Zealand pilot who’s been held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua ...

Rebels have used violence to try to achieve independence as the security situation deteriorates in Indonesia’s easternmost ...

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Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have warned that military attacks in recent days to rescue a New ...

What started as a “relatively minor conflict between illegal miners” escalated into tribal warfare featuring high-powered ...