The governors of Indonesia’s Papua and West Papua provinces recently signed a pledge to conserve 70 percent of the land in their jurisdictions, home to some of the best forest left in the country. In ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Although the Arfak mountain area had separated from the Manokwari District to become self-autonomous in 2012, it continues to lag behind other regions in the east Indonesian ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The provinces of West Papua and Papua in Indonesia have pinned their hopes for economic growth on ecotourism and sustainable development. The Arfak ...

TEMPO.CO, Manokwari - The West Papua administration will build roads in Arfak Mountains regency to support the development of the tourism sector and public services in the area. “The construction will ...

JAKARTA: Indonesian rescue teams have recovered 15 bodies following a flash flood that swept through a remote gold mining site in the Arfak Mountains of West Papua, authorities said Friday (May 23), ...

THE north-western portion of New Guinea is still a very little known region, owing to the great difficulty of penetrating into the interior mountains, which rise fairly abruptly from the coast to a ...