Australia, however, was cautious about instability in PNG and the risk of being drawn into a conflict along its land border with Indonesia. As such, it didn’t provide a commitment to defend PNG.

Indonesian National Army personnel, patrolling the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border, discovered a 0.5-hectare marijuana field in Mersibil Village, Serambakon ...

Around 100 people were transferred there under PNG’s former regional processing arrangement with Australia, most from Indonesia. UNHCR supports PNG ... to asylum seeker/refugee arrivals in the two ...