The Indigenous communities also complained of the intensified presence of the military in their areas. Papua has long been the most militarized region of Indonesia, the result of a long-running ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The indigenous people of Merauke held an audience with Committee II of the South Papua Regional Government Council at the Merauke District Office, Papua, on Monday, December 2, ...

In the southern part of West Papua, Christian communities have erected 1,400 crosses to prevent the takeover of indigenous land. Photo Credit: CSI. Christian Solidarity International's statement ...

More than 40,000 indigenous people, or around 80 percent of Merauke’s indigenous population, will be affected by the food estate project. These tribes rely on the forest as their main source of ...

A recent example is Archbishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi of Merauke supporting the controversial state-backed food projects in southern Papua, despite the Papuans’ rejection of the initiative. The ...

Indigenous peoples, impacted by climate change, raise alarm about the planet at COP29 Show all 13. Your support helps us to tell the story. ... Location: Unda village, Papua New Guinea ...

It’s turning attention to Papua, a province of Indonesia. The slogan refers to the campaign of the indigenous people of Awyu and Moi in Papua, whose forest is at risk of being cleared for palm ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional ...