A small tribe in the Papua Province in Indonesia have a reason to celebrate following the release of the first complete ...

Representatives of the Awyu and Moi Indigenous tribes protest in front of Indonesia's Supreme Court - Copyright AFP BAY ISMOYO Representatives of the Awyu and Moi ...

Escalating violence in Indonesia’s West Papua region is threatening the security of the largely Indigenous population amid intensified clashes between Indonesian security forces and separatist rebels, ...

Indonesia's top court on Nov. 1 rejected an appeal by an Indigenous tribe in its lawsuit against a palm oil firm, leaving it at risk of losing vast swathes of ancestral forest, rights groups said. The ...

Catholic Church officials have come out in support of a Papuan indigenous tribe after an Indonesian court refused to revoke permits to start an oil palm plantation that threatens to clear the tribals' ...

Finger Cutting Mourning Rituals of the Dani Tribe The practice of finger-cutting among the Dani tribe of Indonesia is indeed ...

Samuel Kime, a customary landowner of natural forest in Papua New Guinea’s border province with Indonesia, fears that ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on Thursday denied claims by separatist rebels in the Papua region that at least 17 gold miners slain by insurgents were members of security forces.

Tribes matter in Papua, the large Indonesian province on New Guinea. Though it might appear anachronistic to those of us in the West, old tribal allegiances, and even inter-tribal tensions, sometimes ...

Indonesia’s military says it has reclaimed a village in the restive Papua region following a battle that it says left 14 separatist insurgents dead.

Indonesia's top court on Friday rejected an appeal by an Indigenous tribe in its lawsuit against a palm oil firm, leaving it at risk of losing vast swathes of ancestral forest, rights groups said. The ...