The women of the Dani tribe of Papua, Indonesia, practice the tradition of ritually amputating parts of their fingers when a loved one dies. In late-October 2024, a post on Facebook highlighted an ...

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 ...

Loggers were killed last year after entering Mashco Piro territory in Peru's Amazon, with Indigenous leaders warning that ...

Resource extraction is by far the biggest threat to uncontacted peoples, many of whom live on land ripe for mining, logging ...

South Korea, known for high-profile exports from cars to cell phones, is sending a new product abroad: its alphabet. A tribe from a remote Indonesian island, in danger of losing its culture because it ...

The Indonesian government, which acknowledges most of the concession was previously protected forest, told AFP otherwise. There is "recognition of evidence of the existence of isolated tribes around ...

The Korowai, or Koroway, from Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua, live in tree houses, speak their own tribal language, and live off forest animals and plants. Almost 3,000 members of the nomadic ...

Indonesian tribesman Muhammad Yusuf believes his conversion from animism to Islam in a government-supported programme will eventually make his life easier. "Thank God, the government now pays ...

The lush jungle of Halmahera Island in Indonesia has been eaten away by the world's largest nickel mine - Copyright AFP STR The lush jungle of Halmahera Island in ...

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 ...