Dewdrops cling to weeds in the Banggai archipelago as Deslin Kalaeng grasps a large round root vegetable from the ancient ...

By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — When Joko Widodo took office in 2014 as the president of Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, he was seen as a transformative leader who came from a ...

Land disputes and forced evictions have often been a source of conflict in Indonesia and the protests on Rempang island are the latest in a long line of confrontations between indigenous people ...

Indonesia is building a new capital city ... Sernai’s village, where she lives with fellow Balik Indigenous people, will eventually be part of the new city. “People from the capital are ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The indigenous peoples of the Aru Islands, Maluku, Indonesia, call for biodiversity protection on their ancestral land. The peaceful protest coincides with the global biodiversity ...

The plight of the Indigenous people there started gaining attention last year after a video online showed emaciated members ...

Around 200 groups of Indigenous Peoples currently live in voluntary ... Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Peru and Venezuela. They choose to live detached from the rest ...

Indonesia is in the process of building a new, $32 billion capital city on the island of Borneo. But as VOA’s Ahadian Utama reports, the rapid development is raising concerns among some local ...

Children are particularly affected by large-scale deforestation in Indonesia. The Indigenous people are suffering. For centuries, the people of South Papua have observed a healthy tradition.