West Papua borders the independent nation of Papua New Guinea. The island has some 245 different tribal peoples. Indigenous peoples in West Papua and Papua New Guinea speak some 15% of the world's ...

Twelve West Papuan activists from the West Papua People’s Liberation Movement (GR-PWP) have been arrested for handing out pamphlets supporting the new Boycott Indonesia campaign. The GR-PWP activists ...

The Indonesian Supreme Court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm ...

Daniel Pinto, a 27-year-old traveller from Lambeth, south London, has become the first tourist to visit several indigenous tribes in Papua New Guinea. On a mission to explore all 195 countries, ...