SYDNEY, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 people have been killed over the past two weeks in Papua New Guinea's (PNG) Enga Province, as tribal fighting in the troubled Highland region intensifies. Plagued by warring factions in the remote mountainous landscape, local Lagaip-Porgera Member o...
Papua New Guinea, a Pacific island state, is home to at least 312 tribes and more than 800 languages. But these groups have not always co-existed in harmony; inter-tribal violence occurs even now. T…
Following the Act of Free Choice plebiscite in 1969, Western New Guinea was formally integrated into the Republic of Indonesia. Instead of a referendum of the 816,000 Papuans, only 1,022 Papuan tribal representatives were allowed to vote, and they were coerced into voting in favour of integrati...
The dynamics shouldn’t be exaggerated though. In the more remote highlands as well as big parts of Papua New Guinea, tribal warfare is the default whilst here we’re seeing the echoes of this cultural past. It’s still a thing, but it operates in the background and softens over time. ...
The short answer is ‘no’, and while I appreciate SI’s work on behalf of ‘tribal’ people, I find it disappointing to find that they still use this sort of language. Any one who reads the material on their web page will see that by ‘uncontacted’ they actually man ‘frequently in...
tribal groups that live within its rainforest harbour some 15% of the worlds known languages3. The people of New Guinea are predominantly Christian (through missionaries dispatched to the Island after the tribes were discovered) and are Melanesian in race, compared to Indonesia which is mainly Mus...
Visitors will be welcomed to the various villages, where they will have the opportunity to witness and interact in a number of traditional activities including traditional weaving, face and body painting, tribal warrior demonstrations, and traditional sing-sing. ...
many of the tribal chiefs personally. They reached Fasari on 18 October and hired local villages to clear the site by burning the bush and clearing a few stumps. Sverdrup and Leahy explored further north and found another suitable airstrip site near the village of Embessa and Kinjaki, which...
It was a reference to the tribal violence over land and other disputes that have long characterized the country’s culture but have grown more lethal in recent years. Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea to urge an end to the violence, including gender-based violence, and for a sense of civ...
A Pediatric Tribal Experience in Papua New Guineadoi:10.1093/pch/7.suppl_A.54AbHMM MacDonnellPaediatrics & Child Health