Indonesia's president has signed a decree giving the government the power to ban radical organisations, in a move aimed at outlawing groups behind an apparent rise in the political clout of hardline Islam.

Gunmen opened fire on buses carrying employees of US mining company Freeport in Indonesia’s volatile Papua province today, killing two people.

A security guard working for US mining giant Freeport was killed and seven other people were injured today in a pair of attacks by suspected rebels in Indonesia's Papua province, police and company officials said.