Papua customary land rights

In the cool highlands and swampy lowlands of Papua Tengah (Central Papua) Province, there aren’t always fences or concrete pillars to show where districts end and begin. Ancestral memory, rivers, …

Across the highlands and coastal lowlands of Papua, land is far more than a physical space. It embodies memory, ancestry, spirituality, and collective identity. For Indigenous Papuans, tanah ulayat—ancestral land …