Life in Indonesia speeds up a little in the weeks leading up to Eid al Fitr. As the holiday approaches, towns and villages fill with the familiar excitement. Markets get…
In many villages in Papua Barat, cocoa trees grow quietly behind wooden houses and along the edges of small family farms. The green leaves on the trees give shade to…
In the early morning at a logistics warehouse in Jayapura, stacks of rice bags were ready to start a long trip across the easternmost part of Indonesia. Trucks waited in…
The Papua government starts a program to make food more affordable so that prices stay stable before Eid al-Fitr. On the morning of March 11, 2026, in Jayapura Regency, people…
Merauke is becoming an important logistics hub for the future in Papua. It is located in the far southeastern corner of Indonesia, where huge wetlands meet the Arafura Sea and…
The sea isn’t just a stretch of blue water along the horizon for a lot of people in Papua. It is a place to make a living, remember things, and…
As the sun sets over Jayapura and the first call to prayer rings out across the hills, Ramadan in Papua has a rhythm that feels both close and far away.…
The morning air at Jayapura Port carried the scent of salt and diesel fuel as workers moved carefully between rows of insulated boxes. Inside those boxes lay something more than…
The bright green of the newly sprouted rice paddies in the early morning mist of Jayapura and Keerom tells a story of hope, strength, and change. These fields are more…
In the early morning sunshine that filters through the dense rainforest canopy of Papua, small families cultivate sago palms by hand. They tend the trees and process the starch with…