KANNUR: It was more than 8,000 years ago that the indigenous Papuan tribes of New Guinea, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, ...

THE predominantly Papuan Peoples Action Party is pushing for a national identity in the June general election. Leader Akoka ...

The government has expressed openness to the possibility of granting amnesty to Papuan separatist groups, which authorities officially refer to as armed criminal groups (KKB), despite previously ...

Last Monday, thousands of students in various areas in Papua held protests rejecting the free nutritious meal program.

But Papuan environmentalist Petronela Merauje has also witnessed the environmental cost of such development. About 20 hectares of mangrove forests were cleared to make way for the project ...

In August 2024, while working with our Abui consultants, Shiyue Wu, my Research Assistant at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, discovered a previously-ignored, presumably undocumented Papuan ...

The study, published in PNAS, addresses major gaps in the human genetic history of the Wallacean Archipelago and West Papuan regions of Indonesia – a region with abundant genetic and linguistic ...

The humanitarian pause initiative signed in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 11, 2022, was rejected by several Papuan community groups. Is the humanitarian pause merely a political ploy? Why did it ...

Australian world music star Mitch Tambo and his wife Voice of Lele have released a duet and their take on the classic hit My Island Home.

KANNUR: It was more than 8,000 years ago that the indigenous Papuan tribes of New Guinea, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, first cultivated and domesticated sugarcane. Today, a group of farmers ...