The women of the Dani tribe of Papua, Indonesia, practice the tradition of ritually amputating parts of their fingers when a loved one dies. In late-October 2024, a post on Facebook highlighted an ...

A small tribe in the Papua Province in Indonesia have a reason to celebrate following the release of the first complete Ngalik Bible that took nearly 50 years of laborious work done by three ...

The Indonesian government’s suppression of widespread protests after a 2019 attack on Papuan university students highlighted longstanding racial discrimination against Indigenous Papuans. Indonesian ...

Representatives of the Awyu and Moi Indigenous tribes protest in front of Indonesia's Supreme Court - Copyright AFP BAY ISMOYO Representatives of the Awyu and Moi ...

Escalating violence in Indonesia’s West Papua region is threatening the security of the largely Indigenous population amid intensified clashes between Indonesian security forces and separatist rebels, ...

In the 1960s Indonesia laid claim to West Papua. Despite efforts to control the West Papuan people, it has failed on all aspects of doing so. Indonesia uniliterally annexed the former Dutch colony in ...

Indonesia's top court on Nov. 1 rejected an appeal by an Indigenous tribe in its lawsuit against a palm oil firm, leaving it at risk of losing vast swathes of ancestral forest, rights groups said. The ...

Catholic Church officials have come out in support of a Papuan indigenous tribe after an Indonesian court refused to revoke permits to start an oil palm plantation that threatens to clear the tribals' ...

Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua has both stunning landscapes and an array of tribes that still honor many traditional practices and rituals. Baliem Valley in Wamena has one of the highest ...

JAKARTA — The Indonesian Supreme Court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm plantation project in the country’s easternmost region of Papua. In its ...

The Indonesian government is embarking on yet another project to establish a massive area of farmland at the expense of forests and Indigenous lands, despite a long history of near-identical failures.

Years ago in the highlands of Papua's Baliem Valley, "tribal war was a symbol" of maturity and power, says Dr. Semiarto Aji Purwanto, head of the research division at the University of Indonesia's ...