Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late-October 2024, a post on Facebook highlighted an indigenous tribe on the island of New Guinea, in which the tribespeople ...

Indigenous leaders in Indonesia’s South Papua province have rejected a government plan to build a state-backed fishing settlement on their ancestral land, highlighting growing tensions between ...

Representatives of the Awyu and Moi Indigenous tribes protest in front of Indonesia’s Supreme Court – Copyright AFP BAY ISMOYO Indonesia’s top court on Friday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Papua, Indonesia In Indonesia's dense rainforests, in the mysterious land of Papua, resides a tribe known as the Korowai people.

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, ...

East Bintuni Regency, Indonesia – Striding barefoot through the emerald green jungle with a long wooden bow slung over his shoulder, Josep Ogoney points up at the tropical vegetation surrounding him ...

Three civilians were killed by rebel tribes who they claimed were supplying intelligence to government forces in Indonesia. Footage shows armed members of the West Papua National Liberation Army ...

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' ...

The 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders’ meeting in Koror, Palau, held from August 30 to September 3, placed West Papua ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indigenous rights activists in Indonesia’s Papua region are condemning the government’s rapid approval of a massive rice plantation, arguing the ...

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 ...