Illegal logging in Indonesia’s Papua province is rampant and much of the illicit wood is smuggled to China to feed the country’s voracious appetite for lumber, environmentalists said.

A MAJORITY of Dáil deputies have called on the United Nations to review its controversial role in the disputed takeover of West Papua.

BRITAIN has sold Scorpion tanks and Hawk aircraft to the Indonesian government. These will be used to quell the uprising in West Papua and Aceh. The sale was authorised

FORMER US Senator George Mitchell was warmly welcomed back to Ireland when he addressed the RIA in Dublin late last year.

GARDAÍ arrested four human rights protestors yesterday after they staged a sit-down inside the Dutch Embassy in Dublin.