A 13-day boat trip through the archiepelago reveals stunning natural beauty and a multitude of cultures and languages.

A not for profit organisation says almost half of Indigenous communities living cut off from the world face extinction within the decade due to logging, mining and tourism. Survival International says ...

It wasn’t always part of Indonesia, and its people never voted to join. The story of how Indonesia gained control of West ...

The United Nations has recently come under attack from the Trump Administration and, much as it goes against the grain, it’s difficult to argue with real-estate-developer-cum-ambassador-Representative ...

UN experts expressed concern on Tuesday about Indonesia's continued disregard for its indigenous people's fundamental rights. They urged the Indonesian government to recognize indigenous peoples and ...

Samuel Kime, a customary landowner of natural forest in Papua New Guinea’s border province with Indonesia, fears that contentious logging permits allegedly dominated by Malaysian-linked companies will ...

The Indonesian military (TNI) says the operation “freed residents” of Soanggama Village in Intan Jaya Regency in Central Papua province from the control of an armed separatist group between October 14 ...

SACATON — Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe’s water. His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the Gila River Indian ...

Its rediscovery didn’t come easily. Vejmělka’s team trekked up Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea’s highest peak, at around ...

SPIRIT LAKE, N.D. — The Spirit Lake Tribe is under a state of emergency because the government shutdown threatens funding for food and heating assistance programs. The Supplemental Nutrition ...

During his Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, visit to the Spirit Lake Nation, Gov. Kelly Armstrong helped approve a new law enforcement agreement as part of his effort to strengthen relationships with North ...