Later, the province was renamed Irian Jaya. Since then, there has been an ongoing call for independence by the people of West Papua, led by the Free Papua Movement (OPM), in an effort to assert ...

The Bismarck Solomon Seas ecoregion is known as the “Western Indo-Pacific cradle of coral biodiversity”. Its seascape stretches from the Birdshead (Doberai) Peninsula of West Papua (also known as ...