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 ...

Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and returned to his native New Zealand. Mehrtens’s kidnapping was a personal trauma — ...

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 ...

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.

Today, West Papua remains Indonesia’s most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken province and human rights abuses are rife. ... the indigenous tribe in Merauke in West Papua’s south, ...

West Papua’s war isn’t just a war against subjugation and genocide. It is a war against the forced homogeny of Western civilization that those crimes serve.

Papua tribes clashed leaving two dead and hundreds injured in Indonesia. Footage shows a battalion of tribesmen with painted faces and wooden bows marching in Puncak Jaya in Central Papua on June 5.

"TIL That in the Dani Tribe of Papua, Indonesia, There's a Unique Tradition Involving Women. ... "Iki Palek and Nasu Palek Traditions of Dani Tribe, Papua." West Papua Voice, 28 May 2024, ...

A British ‘danger tourist’ on a mission to visit every country has become the first tourist to visit several indigenous tribes in Papua New Guinea.

West Papua has long been the site of a low-level separatist insurgency with Indonesian authorities accused of mass arrests to silence activists. The tribes and groups called on people to boycott firms ...

RAGTAG tribal warriors are using bows and arrows to fight AI drones and elite special forces in a brutal conflict that is set to erupt into all out war, an exiled leader has warned. The simmering b… ...

The Awyu tribe, whose roughly 20,000 members rely on the land for their subsistence, had sought to freeze the operations of PT Indo Asiana Lestari (PT IAL) in the eastern Indonesian province of ...