Traditional Boat and Biak Tribe Sailing Pattern
Biak Tribe is known as the notable sea traveler. The tribe from Biak and Numfor Islands here could create various kinds of boat based on need which then becomes their tradition. The motif varies from a need for livelihood up through to slave hunt. In a journal entitled “Biak Numfor People Before 19th Century: A […]
Yosua, A Teamster of Wet Saifi Reading Club Community
Apart from the public stigma of Tanah Papua concerning with the poor access of education, data from the Statistics Indonesia (BPS) 2021 shows a good hope. BPS reveals data that the average school year (RLS) of the above 25-year-old populations in West Papua continues to grow every year. The RLS in 2021 grew into 7.69 […]
Youth Camp Calls Youngsters to Act for Ecological Crisis
Youth Camp serves as the media that helps young people to have more sensitivity to environmental issues. The statement was addressed by Muhammad Lutfi, the Coordinator of Sorong EcoDefender, in the Youth Camp event held in Mibi Beach, Makbon District, Sorong Regency, on 11 June 2022. On the Youth Camp, young peoples were trained to […]
Retracting Egek, Looking at Moi Tribe’s Natural Deposit
People in Malaumkarta Village in Makbon District, Sorong, West Papua, got together that morning to celebrate a special moment. The ambience was more jam-packed than usual. Many elder people wore traditional outfits. They prepared kakes, an offer on a plate with betel nut, cigarette, sago, and yellow rice. Kakes was put on a table traditionally […]
Om, Priceless Food for Ngalum Ok Tribe
Ngalum Ok tribe is one of the indigenous Papuan tribes dwelling in the Oksibil Valley, Bintang Mountains. Like the other indigenous Papuan tribes, the life of the Ngalum Ok people has a very strong connection with nature. Most of Ngalum Ok peoples cultivate crops as their main livelihood. Some food crops here are like om […]
Edor Village Not Inferior as It Is Internet and Digital Literate
Following the release of Edor Village’s official website, the Kaimana Regency’s Communication and Information Office, in West Papua, in collaboration with EcoNusa organized a millennial cadre training (PMK) on 2-3 June 2022 at the Communication and Information Office. Five youngsters of Edor Village were selected as the training participants who were taught on basic journalism […]
Ngalum Ok Tribe, Water People from Bintang Mountains
Ngalum Ok tribe is one of seven tribes inhabiting the valley, precisely in the Oksibil valley, in the southern part of the Jayawijaya Mountains range of Bintang Mountains areas in Papua. The word Oksibil in Ngalum Weng (Ngalum language) consists of two words: Ok which means water, and Sibil which means near. Ngalum itself means […]
Edor Village Website Launching, Progress for Data-based Local Planning
Kaimana Regency Communication and Information Office in collaboration with EcoNusa and Edor Village Government released official website for Edor Village on 31 May 2022. The website which is accessible at https://edor.kaimanakab.go.id will help expose any activity performed by the government and community of Edor Village. Website launching of Edor Village was officially done by Freddy […]
Jayapura Administrative Court Turned Down PT ASI and PT PUA Lawsuits
Jayapura Administrative Court turned down the lawsuits against South Sorong Regent related to his revocation of palm oil licenses filed by PT Anugerah Sakti Internusa (ASI) and PT Persada Utama Agromulia (PUA), on Monday 23 May 2022. On the exception, the Jayapura Administrative Court Judges acceded the defendant exception represented by South Sorong Regency Government […]
Getting Money from Protecting Land in Yoboi Village
Natural richness in Tanah Papua provides abundance to anyone that protect them. This is wat Billy Tokoro, the founder of Pace Kreatif, who tries to utilize sago forest as ecotourism. Billy is the local youngster of Yoboi Village in Jayapura, Papua. With his Pace Kreatif’s pals, Billy assigned a certain area at sago village to […]
Maritime and Fisheries Injustice Needs Standpoint
Implementation of policy related to maritime and fisheries resources management should get special attention so as to become one of the Indonesia economic standpoints in the future. Equal and sustainable resources management serve as the definite requirement to create triple win to the community, nature, and economy. The acting Director for Policy Reform and International […]
73 Youth Digital Campaigner 2022 Produced 783 Contents
Climate change campaigns get more massive youth involvement. EcoNusa Foundation together with Association of Communication Science University (ASPIKOM) conducted capacity building programs about digital campaigns titled Youth Digital Campaigner (YDC). As from 624 registrants, there are 75 participants actively campaigning about climate changes through their channel and graduating from this program. “Congratulations on being graduates and […]
Tribal Assembly on Recognition of Ulim Abgies Pela and Ulimpa Obokmala Clans Rights Running Well
The Moi Tribe Tribal Council held a Tribal Assembly on Recognition of Ulim Abgies pela and Ulimpa Obokmala Clans Rights on Friday 13 May 2022 in Klayili Village. Yohanis Sawisa, the Head of Klayili District, Sorong Regency, West Papua, officially opened the assembly attended by Kwakeik Village Head, Yakob Ulim, Sorong Regent representative, Luther Salamala, […]
EcoNusa Calls SAI Papuan Youth to Protect Forests
Papuan forests are the last frontier for Indonesia to cope with climate crisis. As the frontier that protects us from any threat, we should take care and defend the remaining natural richness in eastern Indonesia. It is the duties of all community elements ranging from government, business persons, private sector, to the nation’s young generation […]
Menke Womom, Imminence Proof of Abun Tribe and Oceans God
As to Abun Tribe, leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is deemed the significant Oceans God that need preservation. The existence of the fauna is believed to bring blessing to the surrounding creature including Abun Tribe, a native tribe dwelling in Abun District, Tambrauw Regency, West Papua. Therefore, Abun Tribe has a locally-called Menke Womom ritual to […]
STS Just a Start
Social Transformation School (STS) initiated by EcoNusa Foundation is part of a series of local education. The process was set off by visiting the targeted villages to conduct brief survey and interview with village apparatus. The visits were intended to identify the existing potentials of each areas. EcoNusa has targeted villages whose areas were parts […]
Historical Moment, West Papua Hosts W20 and Y20
West Papua will host the Women 20 (W20) and Youth 20 (Y20) Pre-Summits as the side event of the Group of Twenty (G20) Summit this year. In his speech, West Papua Governor Dominggus Mandacan on the event of West Papua Onward Glory, Pre-Event of W20 and Y20 Manokwari Talk Show said the government of West […]
Public Anxious to Know Verdict on Palm Oil License Revocation
Fear lingered in the mind of people in Konda District, South Sorong Regency, West Papua Province. They were anxious to know the trial which charged the South Sorong Regent, Samsudin Anggiluli, indicted by palm oil companies. The litigation was registered in the Jayapura High Administrative Court from the last December 2021. The verdict will define […]
