The Indonesian Government plans to invest at least 1,260 billion Rp (76.14 million USD) in electrifying 433 remote villages in the country’s four most impoverished provinces in 2020.
The Indonesian government on October 11 officially inaugurated Sorong Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on an area of 523.7 hectares in Sorong district, West Papua province.
Thousands of residents in Indonesia's Papua scrambled to board military planes on September 27, fleeing urban unrest after one of the region's deadliest eruptions of violence in years.
The Indonesian National Police's Counterterrorism Squad, Densus 88, is probing a likely involvement of the Islamic state (ISIS) group in a string of riots in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, Indonesia’s Antara News Agency reported.
Indonesian police said on September 2 that they have been investigating possible foreign involvement in violent protests in Papua and West Papua provinces since August 19.
Riots broke out in the Indonesian province of West Papua on August 19, torching the parliament building of Manokwari city and injuring three police officers.
Indonesian rescuers on July 14 retrieved two bodies and were searching for 11 other passengers who remained unaccounted for after a boat with 15 people on board sank off Indonesia's eastern province of West Papua.
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