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Last month, more than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups called for a boycott of products allegedly implicated in the "ecocide" of the region, according to a ...
(The Dani are one of several highland Papuan tribes with a unique culture and minimal exposure to the outside world.) The group was divided into older (median age 50) and younger men (median age 24).
People, identifying with their own tribes and also as West Papuans ... The ethical reach of the West Papuan boycott has the same scope as Karl Jasper’s insight about the all-embracing nature ...
Members of Papua’s Yei tribe cut sago trees to find grubs ... according to the international environmental organisation Mighty Earth. Papuan people have rejected the government’s plan ...
The government proposal seeks to clear forests for in order to produce bioethanol from sugarcane and food crops.
Anthropologists rightly caution against ethnic stereotyping, and a Papuan elder in feathered regalia ... in which Omo Masalai members chase a fellow tribe member who is dressed as a piglike ...
When the government representative arrived with the Papuan Army “and a vociferously ... eyes and skin of the various South Sea Island tribes...and the vividness of their decorations and natural ...
(Yusuf Wahil/Mighty Earth via AP) In this image provided by Mighty Earth, Papuan women fish on the edge of rice fields ... the head of Kwipalo family of Papua’s Yei tribe, Vincen Kwipalo, 63, left, ...
Pray for safe flights, open ministry doors, and receptivity of Papuan people to the Gospel. This tribe is an example of impact. “In a generation, it has changed them from cannibals to Christians,” ...