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The death toll from the flash flood and lahar in West Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 43, with 15 others still missing.
2024-05-13

Twenty-six people are killed and eleven others are missing during flash floods in villages in the Pesisir Selatan Regency of West Sumatra province, Indonesia.
2024-03-9

Eighteen people are killed when a truck carrying 29 people flips over in Indonesia's West Papua province.
2022-04-13

A fire at a nightclub in Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia, following an armed clash between two groups, kills at least 18 people.
2022-01-24

Tensions escalate between Indonesia and Pacific Island nations as the situation in the province of West Papua worsens after an Indonesian soldier and a West Papuan are killed in clashes. Vanuatuan Foreign Minister Ralph Regenvanu said "something must be done", amid calls to invite United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to investigate murders and torture in the area.
2019-08-29

Indonesia cuts off Internet in the provinces of Papua and West Papua amid pro-independence unrest.
2019-08-22

Massive demonstrations in support of the Free Papua Movement take place in various cities in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. The demonstrations voice support for the Liberation Movement to become a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.
2016-04-13

Thirty-nine people are injured after an earthquake in the waters off the coast of the Indonesian province of West Papua.
2015-09-25

Security is increased in Manokwari, West Papua, after protests against the killing of two people by Indonesian police.
2010-09-17

As many as 1,800 homes are estimated to have been destroyed on Biak Island, West Papua, Indonesia, as a result of the 7.0 magnitude 2010 Papua earthquake.
2010-06-17