STORIES: Life at Wamena

Wamena is the largest town in Indonesian Papua's highlands and a relatively isolated location with a population of around 10,000 Indigenous Papuans facing extreme poverty and a loss of their land rights which have lead to a deterioration of their traditional culture, health and economic well-being. This has created an unstable situation that threatens to spill over into conflicts between the indigenous population and the immigrants from other Indonesian provinces, who are mostly Muslim.