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 ...

UN experts expressed concern on Tuesday about Indonesia's continued disregard for its indigenous people's fundamental rights. They urged the Indonesian government to recognize indigenous peoples and ...

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, ...

Climate change is the defining issue of our age. While nations search for complex technological solutions at this year’s high-stakes climate meeting in the Amazon city of Belém, a simpler yet powerful ...

The Korowai, or Koroway, from Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua, live in tree houses, speak their own tribal language, and live off forest animals and plants. Almost 3,000 members of the nomadic ...

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 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 ...

Indonesian activists called on Thursday for deeper investigation into the killing of a Papuan pastor, a day after a top security official said a government fact-finding mission had found signs of ...

Indonesia's top court on Friday 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 ...