Papua Barat Trains 30 Village Peace Mediators
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…
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…