About 312 tribes live in West Papua, an Indonesian province on the island of New Guinea off Australia. Much remains unknown of those that are uncontacted, Australia's news.com.au reported, ...

West Papua tribe at risk of losing homeland after court ruling: NGOs. Palm oil is a billion-dollar industry in Indonesia, which is the world's largest producer and exporter of the commodity used ...

U nfortunately, West Papua does not have a seat at the table in the UN climate talks currently taking place in Glasgow, Scotland. That’s because it’s a country whose people are still struggling to ...

West Papua occupies the Indonesian half of New Guinea. Much of it still remains unmapped, and as a result untouched tribes hold a part of its mystique. It is nestled in a corner of the world where ...

Much of West Papua still remains unmapped and, as a result, untouched tribes hold a part of its mystique, living as they do in an area of rain forest, swamps, and cloud-snagged mountains reaching to ...

The tribes of West Papua are believed to be present in the Gusawi region. Those on North Sentinel are known as the Sentinelese, and Survival estimates there are between 50 and 200 people who make ...

In West Papua, the struggle isn’t about isolated tribes trying to protect their bit of turf, but a nationwide social movement with a comprehensive political platform, the Green State Vision.

Indigenous peoples in Papua and West Papua provinces harvest sago as a staple food, but say their diets and culture are threatened by forest-clearing to produce palm oil BALI, Indonesia, Aug 20 ...

Back in West Papua, the dawn of a new age of Indigenous empowerment could be on the horizon. And while some of the Ogoney opposed Yustina when she became the first female head of the district ...

These incredible images reveal Indonesia’s tree-dwelling cannibal tribe who had no idea other people existed until the 1970s. The pictures show the Korowai people of West Papua in Indonesia ...