JAKARTA — In recent United Nations biodiversity conferences, global leaders have championed Indigenous peoples as critical partners in achieving conservation goals. Indonesia, as a signatory to ...

President Joko Widodo, together with a number of ministers and governors, camped at the site that will become Indonesia's new ... because so far, the indigenous people feel they are not involved ...

However, for the Indigenous people of Indonesia, fasting is not only practiced by those who are Muslim and has been done since before religion entered the archipelago. Indigenous Indonesians have ...

A Catholic in Indonesia’s Christian-dominated East Nusa Tenggara province has been accused of blasphemy after he criticized a ...

Last week in Maumere, in Indonesia’s Flores island, the Catholic Church came under fire for reclaiming Indigenous people's ...

This issue of migrants against indigenous people is a major theme that runs through communal conflict in Indonesia. There is a conflict going on in Poso in Sulawesi. Again the worst episode was this ...

In Indonesia, home to as many as 70 million Indigenous people and over 1,300 different ethnic groups, a new initiative is aiming to bridge this gap. Launched in May, the Nusantara Fund will channel ...