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53 images Created 14 Mar 2013

Papua - Market places

Market places is a social photography project on local communities facing globalization and the consequences of an increasingly homogeneous world in Papua, Indonesia.

Indonesian Papua has the perfect terrain to document the effects of globalization on local communities. Indeed, in a very short period, these people and their cultures have been disrupted by the sudden opening to the world and the rampant 'modernization' that followed with its annexation by Indonesia in 1969.

This ongoing project is supported by 'Fondation Indépendance', of the Banque Internationale à Luxembourg.
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  • Biak
  • Papua
  • Baliem Valley
    Baliem Valley view from Kurima .jpg
  • Only remote villages manage to still evade the onslaught of the global market forces.
    Honai.jpg
  • papua 6-page-001.jpg
  • Portrait of a Dani man
    Dani man.jpg
  • A Yali village three days walk from Wamena.
    Village life.jpg
  • Les Papous
  • Traditional Noken making is recognised in 2012 as a Unesco cultural heritage. A noken is a multifunctional woven bag.
    Nokken making.jpg
  • A Dani woman collecting wood for cooking
    Collecting wood.jpg
  • Biak
  • On the beach in Bosnik - Biak island
    Biak
  • 1600 - 1945
  • Bosnik beach Biak Papua
    Biak
  • 60s
  • 1969-2015
  • Statue...
    Biak
  • Papua hier et aujourd'hui
  • More and more Indonesians from other islands are moving to the highlands of Papua. <br />
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Indonesians from other island are controlling all commercial activities.
    Transmigration Papua.jpg
  • Transition
  • Traditional produce, such as locally grown tobacco, are pushed aside by imported cigarettes
    Traditional tobacco.jpg
  • The concept of paper money and commercial transactions are a relatively new concept in highland Papua. In a so called subsistence economy, transactions of goods were purely ritual (weddings, funerals, war payments etc)
    Barter.jpg
  • Pigs are a source of wealth for highland Papuans
    Breeding pigs.jpg
  • Working in the garden. Because of government hand outs of rice, many people have stopped working in their gardens. Especially close to urban centres many gardens lie fallow
    Working in the garden.jpg
  • The market place of Tiom is crowded with goats that belong to the Indonesian newcomers who control all the little shops surrounding the traditional market. Pigs, the traditional livestock of highlands Papuans are absent.
    Tiom market.jpg
  • Mama-mama market Wamena.jpg
  • Markets where indigenous Papuans sell local produce are pushed outside the urban centres
    traditional market.jpg
  • Dead fish...
    Biak fish market
  • Biak fish market - pasar ikan
    Biak fish market - pasar ikan
  • Most shops and nearly all commercial activity is controlled by Indonesian newcomers. Indigenous Papuans sit outside the shops and sell a handful of betelnut or vegetables.
    Selling pinang.jpg
  • As nearly all commercial activity is in the hands of Indonesian newcomers, money transactions are one way.
    Money culture.jpg
  • Imported goods.jpg
  • Supermarkets.jpg
  • Imported apples
    Supermarkets in Papua.jpg
  • Shopping mall.jpg
  • playing games.jpg
  • Shopping malls sprout like mushrooms all over urban centres
    Shopping mall.jpg
  • Advertisements promise new realities
    Advertisements and capitalism.jpg
  • Import of goods.jpg
  • The island of Papua has a tremendous natural wealth (wood, gold, gas, copper etc) which is exported to the rest of the world. All consumer goods are imported from other islands in Indonesia
    Import of goods.jpg
  • In the highlands everything needs to be brought in by plane. Consumer goods leave a desert of rubbish behind
    Planes come in and rubbish stays.jpg
  • papua 8-page-001.jpg
  • Aggressive development is taking place all over Indonesian Papua
    Aggressive development.jpg
  • papua 10-page-001.jpg
  • Kids playing marbles at the market place in Tiom
    Playing marbles.jpg
  • There are currently about 700 street children in Wamena. Sniffing glue is widespread
    Street kids in Wamena.jpg
  • Playing football video games is a favourite past time for many young Indonesian men. <br />
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Transmigration is not organised anymore by the government, but everyday people from other islands move to Papua in the hope of making a lot of money fast. Indonesians already outnumber Papuans (51% of the pupulation).
    Video games.jpg
  • Due to the rapid changes, the community is falling apart in many places. Subsistence culture is being replaced by capitalism in less than a generation and  disorientation is widespread.
    Broken community.jpg
  • In Tanah Papua, the 260 or so indigenous Papuan tribes make up less than half of the 3,6 million inhabitants. HIV prevalence, however, is almost twice as high among indigenous Papuans than among migrants, and in some areas Papuans make up 80% of the positive cases. The feeling among Papuans that their traditions and cultures are slowly being eroded due to transmigration, rapid economic development, rampant resource extraction and the political climate is widespread. The increased reliance on money coupled with a lack of paid employment in rural areas has drawn many to the cities, severely impacting traditional social structures. Disorientation in the face of rapid changes are visible in all urban centres. Alcohol abuse, for instance, has become a rampant problem among the indigenous population.
    HIV/AIDS in Papua Broken Community.jpg
  • The imposition of Western and Indonesian values are rapidly side-lining age old traditions and cultures. This has lead to an increasing disorientation for many indigenous Papuans
    HIV/AIDS in Papua lifestyle change.jpg
  • Indonesian newcomers control most of the commercial and economic activities and most indigenous Papuans are economically sidelined. Papua has a typical frontier economy, where very high returns can be made on small investments. The import of consumer goods has had a significant impact on nutrition, with many Papuans turning away from traditional agricultural produce to packaged noodles, oil and sugar. Proper nutrition is essential in checking the spread of HIV.
    HIV/AIDS in Papua Economic realities...jpg
  • All consumer goods and even some agricultural goods are imported from outside Papua.
    HIV/AIDS in Papua everything is impo...jpg
  • In Timika, the effects of the mining activities of the largest gold mine in the world, operated by Arizona-based company Freeport-MacMoran, are clearly visible. The course of the Aikwa river has been severely modified, as has the wildlife and flora upon which depended the indigenous population.
    HIV/AIDS in Papua environmental degr...jpg