Papua customary land rights

Land disputes can remain unresolved for years when residents lack a trusted forum to discuss competing claims. In Papua Barat (West Papua), a new community-based initiative is seeking to address …

The proposed Agrarian Reform Bill for Papua is putting customary land rights at the centre of a wider discussion over how land should be governed, developed and protected in Indonesia’s …

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 …