Papua Targets 137,000 Hectares for Food Security
Papua is set to play a bigger role in Indonesia’s long-term food security strategy after the government’s plan to develop and optimise around 137,000 hectares of agricultural land across the…
Papua is set to play a bigger role in Indonesia’s long-term food security strategy after the government’s plan to develop and optimise around 137,000 hectares of agricultural land across the…
Papua’s rich agricultural heritage has the potential to play a bigger role in strengthening regional food security following a dialogue between Indonesia’s Minister of Agriculture and 150 Papuan university students,…
For decades, food imported from other parts of Indonesia has been a mainstay for many communities in Papua Pegunungan (Papua Highlands). Long supply chains, rough terrain, and transportation expenses have…
As the afternoon sun began to soften over the courtyard of the Papua Provincial Legislative Council (DPR Papua) building in Jayapura, the rows of exhibition tents were filled with the…
Chritoforus A. Mahuse could hardly contain his excitement when the first rice harvest came to the long idle land. The Indigenous Papuan customary landowner stood in the newly harvested fields…
As visitors gathered around traditional cooking demonstrations, the smell of roasted fish wafted through the festival grounds in Sorong. Nearby, women from Indigenous communities laid out carefully local ingredients that…
Yasinta Moiwend, better known in Merauke as Mama Sinta, knew her stance on the government’s food estate project would attract attention when she made it public earlier this year. The…
Before rice became the staple food of Indonesia, communities throughout Papua relied on another crop to support their daily lives. In the heart of the wetlands and river basins grew…
Farmers across much of Papua are already at work before dawn. Rice fields in newly opened agricultural areas in the lowland of South Papua. In the fertile valleys of the…
Long before the debate reached social media and documentary films, farmers in parts of Papua were already talking about something more immediate: would they finally have enough land, irrigation, machinery,…