The women of the Dani tribe of Papua, Indonesia, practice the tradition of ritually amputating parts of their fingers when a loved one dies.

Today, West Papua remains Indonesia’s most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken province and human rights abuses are rife. ... life expectancies are 35 years for men and 38 for women, ...

The Dani tribe is an indigenous people living in the Baliem Valley of the highlands of West Papua, Indonesia. The finger-cutting as a mourning practice of the Dani People [Guardian] ...

The forest is a short 13 kilometers (8 miles) away from downtown Jayapura, the capital city of Papua, Indonesia’s easternmost province. It’s been known as the women’s forest since 2016, when Enggros’ ...

But most of the victims of Indonesia’s final solution in West Papua don’t even carry guns. In 1998, ... Some 200 people, most of them women and children, drowned.

West Papua—the part of the island of Papua currently ruled by Indonesia—is a site of aggressive industrial development, with major industries in gas extraction, metallurgical mining, and agricultural ...

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.

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