Indonesia has stepped up efforts to turn Papua Tengah (Papua Tengah) into one of the country’s emerging cocoa-producing regions with an ambitious agricultural programme that includes the distribution of 3.6…
The real test of Papua’s development challenge is not the grand announcements in Jakarta but whether public services can reach villages separated by rivers, mountains, forests and vast stretches of…
Early in the morning in Wamena, the air is still cool when farmers begin their work. Coffee trees grow between other crops, not in large plantations but in small, scattered…
In parts of Papua Barat (West Papua) province, cocoa trees are not new. They grow behind houses, along village paths, and in small plots that families have tended for years.…
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…
A new kind of chance is growing in the soft morning light that comes through the trees in Papua. International business interest is starting to wake up behind the normal…
Papua is once again at the center of a national and international conversation about development, sustainability, and economic direction. This time, the focus is not on large scale oil palm…