In 2025, Aqua Expeditions will expand its horizons to offer three new itineraries in the wildest, most remote corners of East Indonesia—only accessible by ship. The seven- and 12-night excursions will ...

The floorboard of the stage at the Yos Sudarso Field in Agats in the Asmat Regency rumbled as no less than 140 dancers from various villages in 7 districts danced passionately to the beat of the tradi ...

A Catholic diocese in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua region organized a cultural festival to help an indigenous tribal group in the promotion and sales of their famous wooden carvings and sculptures.

Writer Joan Didion once said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Had she ever visited the Asmat people of Southern Papua, Indonesia, she might have added to that profound statement “… and ...

At the second place on our list of 13 real life cannibal tribes, families in India and around the world we have the Asmat tribe from the West Papua that is actually the tribe that was always described ...

A Catholic diocese in Indonesia’s Christian-majority Papua region has postponed a popular annual festival showcasing famed tribal woodcarvings following mob violence against members of the organizing ...

Before his tragic death on an expedition to Netherlands New Guinea last year, young Michael C. Rockefeller, 23, managed to collect much of what he was searching for in the far Pacific: the religious ...