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,…
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…
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…
By midday, trucks carrying harvested corn already move along parts of Keerom Regency. Some travel short distances between villages. Others continue toward markets where prices often depend less on production…
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.…
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…
On a cool morning in Sarmi Regency in Papua, the smell of wet earth hangs in the air as sunlight filters through young rice shoots and banana palms. The fields…
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…
PAPUA – One of the biggest impacts of the Integrated Village Economic Transformation Program of the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration is the change in mindset of the…
Merauke – Farmers in Telaga Sari Village, Merauke appreciated the 40,000 hectares of land assistance provided by Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman during his working visit to Telaga Sari Village,…