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  • During a discussion group among the indigenous people living in the difficult to access mountainous interior of Panay. Their banana and cassava plants were all destroyed during the storm.
    During a discussion group in Lahug.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
  • 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 HIV/AIDS epidemic in Papua is highlighting the inequalities between newcomers and the majority of indigenous people. The imposition of Indonesian and capitalist values, presented by colonial authorities as the new ideal for Papuans to follow, have severely impacted the faith in the worth of its own traditions. The political situation has brought about an unsustainable national development program, which is merely exacerbating corruption and inequalities. Urban centres are drawing away men and teenagers of both sexes further away from the poles of local traditional authority without a culturally suited alternative to sustain a healthy social lifestyle.<br />
For Papua's indigenous population to survive the threat of the HIV epidemic, a unified, culturally appropriate awareness raising campaign must be implemented from the bottom up, with the support of the Indonesian government. But an HIV campaign will only slightly slow the spread of the virus if no significant changes are done to improve health and social conditions as well as the recognition of Papuan norms, values and cultures as contemporary to the predominant Javanese-Indonesian norms rather than as the remnants of a backward culture that is threatening the unity of the country.
    HIV/AIDS Papua Pemekaran.jpg
  • Bosnik beach Biak Papua
    Biak
  • Biak Fish market Papua
    Biak fish market
  • Biak fish market - pasar Ikan
    Biak fish market - pasar ikan
  • On the beach in Bosnik - Biak island
    Biak
  • 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
  • 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
  • Biak fish market - pasar ikan
    Biak fish market - pasar ikan
  • Statue...
    Biak
  • Fish market Biak
    Biak fish market - Pasar Ikan
  • Biak
  • Kids playing marbles at the market place in Tiom
    Playing marbles.jpg
  • Dead fish...
    Biak fish market
  • Portrait of a Dani man
    Dani man.jpg
  • A Yali village three days walk from Wamena.
    Village life.jpg
  • There are currently about 700 street children in Wamena. Sniffing glue is widespread
    Street kids in Wamena.jpg
  • 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
  • Testing facilities are only available in urban areas and most of those who undergo testing do so because they are showing serious signs of reoccurring opportunistic diseases such as tuberculosis, dysentery or pneumonia, meaning that they are already at an advanced stage of the illness. Many people have to walk for days to the closest urban centre to get their monthly stack of ARV medicine. Stigma is also still widespread and many are reluctant to pick up their medicine for fear of others finding out their status. Although ARV medicine is free, other essential medicine such as Cotrimoxazole, used as a treatment of infections before antiretroviral can be administered, is not.
    HIV/AIDS Papua access to medicine.jpg