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Massacre in Intan Jaya
Fifteen West Papuans were murdered by the Indonesian military in the Highlands region of Intan Jaya in October 2025. In the early hours of the morning, soldiers went house to house in Soanggama Village, torturing and shooting villagers while they slept. Indonesia then denied the massacre, claiming that those killed were guerilla fighters—in direct contradiction of all on the ground reports.
Intan Jaya has become a warzone since Indonesia began construction on the vast Wabu Block gold mine in the region in 2020.
In May, up to fifteen Intan Jaya residents were “disappeared” by Indonesian soldiers, including a child, a 75-year-old, and two women later found buried in a shallow grave. Two months prior to that, a series of aerial military bombardments destroyed a number of Intan Jaya villages, prompting hundreds of civilians to flee into the bush. And at the end of 2024, four Intan Jaya villagers were murdered by a rogue military battalion, including a man with learning difficulties and two school children.
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