15 Superlative Elderly people throughout the Class of 2024Beloved Audience, It session has gone by every too quickly. Just like the year appears to have become, the end of this new semester… Read More

The hot cup of freshly roasted Indonesian coffee is beside me, ready to be enjoyed. The kitchen where I brewed it has good plumbing. The toilet in the restroom down the hall flushes on comma… Read More

Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, photographed by a camera trap. Credit: Expedition Cyclops. More than 60 years after it was last recorded, an expedition team ha… Read More

 TROUBLES NEXT DOOR? NOT OUR PROBLEM                         An Australian academic is risking an eruptio… Read More

The Pacific Media Centre’s team working in collaboration with Internews’ Earth Journalism Network on climate change and the pandemic . . . then centre director Professor Dav… Read More

Where in the quest for groundbreaking discoveries needs meticulous orchestration and exhaustive exploration, an fantastic phenomenon unfolds: the begin of treasured treasures from the unchar… Read More

 Malay (/məˈleɪ/;[6] Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو, Rejang: ꤷꥁꤼ ꤸꥍწ… Read More

I’m the map, I’m the map, I’m the map, I’m the map. I’m the map! I remember watching countless episodes of Dora the Explorer as a child, singing the above song… Read More

Indonesian authorities detained and charged eight West Papuan students with treason on Thursday for raising the banned Morning Star flag used by supporters of independence for the restive pr… Read More

Indonesian authorities have arrested Papuan independence leader Victor Yeimo over accusations that he orchestrated some of the most serious civil unrest in decades that broke out in 2019… Read More

Support to West Papua Education Payakumbuh, West Sumatera (ANTARA) – Teachers and headmasters in Payakumbuh City, West Sumatra Province, accrued school supplies to be donated to Papuan… Read More

Studying in the midst of the COVID-19 Jayapura (ANTARA) – Studying in the midst of the COVID-19 is not easy for children. Corona virus outbreak caused all activities in the country… Read More

A Papuan student wrote the following article about Papua’s special autonomy. West Papua Blog thinks that an honest expression by native Papuan intellectual is very important for the g… Read More

Timika, Papua (ANTARA) – Commander of the Joint Regional Defense Command (Kogabwilhan) III, Lt.Gen.Agus Rohman said, religious, customary, and community leaders in Timika, Mimika… Read More

Before I digress slightly, let me state from the outset that the book by Greg Poulgrain that I am about to review is extraordinary by any measure. The story he tells is one you will read now… Read More

Hundreds of Papuans held rallies across at least eight cities in Indonesia on Dec. 2 to renew calls for independence, as a separatist group declared it had established a provisional governme… Read More

The low-level insurgency of Free West Papua separatist has two big branches, armed criminal group and political wing (domestic and international. All of those groups propagate the fantasy of… Read More

Author: Liam Gammon, ANU On 25 October 2019 Prabowo Subianto gracefully accepted the offer of a senior position in President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo’s second-term cabinet. Ami… Read More

A Memoir from Western New Guinea I flew to the Highlands on a creaking Merpati aircraft with only one other passenger and other seats replaced by large steel drums. I would have been more ne… Read More

Indonesian AcronymsExplore the full database by click read more below. To find an acronym first click on this page then from the "Edit" menu in your browser select "Find in Frame" (Netscape)… Read More

First U.S. Aircraft Hijacked, May 1, 1961: Puerto Rican born Antuilo Ramierez Ortiz forced at gunpoint a National Airlines plane to fly to Havana, Cuba, where he was given asylum.Ambassador… Read More

How Anthropological Fieldwork Promotes Empathy and Breaks Down Barriers – Gaining Perspective Through Immersive Cultural Experiences Immersive cultural experiences have the remarkable… Read More