Western New Guinea: Papua and West Papua Provinces of Indonesia

2019 ◽  
pp. 875-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Fenner
Keyword(s):  
New Guinea ◽  
West Papua

A new species of Heminicsara (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Agraeciini) from West Papua (New Guinea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4991 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
MING KAI TAN ◽  
SIGFRID INGRISCH ◽  
CAHYO RAHMADI ◽  
TONY ROBILLARD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Abdominal Tergite ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
West Papua ◽  
A New Species

Heminicsara Karny, 1912 is a katydid genus of Agraeciini from the Axylus genus group. It currently comprises 62 species from mainly New Guinea and surrounding archipelagos. Based on recent fieldwork in Lobo in West Papua, Indonesia, a new species of Heminicsara is described here: Heminicsara incrassata sp. nov. It is most readily characterised from congeners and other species of the Axylus genus group by the male tenth abdominal tergite forming a large shield-shaped plate. This represents the first species of Heminicsara described and known from the south-west of New Guinea.  

scholarly journals ‘Food is life’: Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Ceridwen Spark
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Population Management ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
West Papua ◽  
The Impact

In this article, I discuss two recent examples of women’s filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both films explore and represent food in profoundly different ways. Here, I consider their respective depictions of food, demonstrating that Tanah Mama represents food as sustenance while Café Niugini renders food as ‘cuisine’ through the ‘creative performance’ of cookery. Nevertheless, and as I argue, both documentaries reflect the filmmakers’ interest in representing issues associated with food in the Pacific, including the importance of Indigenous access to land, population management, gender roles and the impact of changing cultural values on food consumption and health.

scholarly journals Sandline's mercenaries helped Kopassus

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
Peter Cronau
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Special Forces ◽  
West Papua

  Mercenaries expelled from Papua New Guinea in 1997 had worked a year earlier in West Papua assisting Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces troops in an operation that caused many civilian deaths. 

Mortars and Pestles Make the Mid-Holocene Occupation of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago Visible

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Swadling
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago ◽  
Land Clearance

Stone mortars and pestles are distributed across New Guinea, but few have been found in West Papua. As they are now securely dated to the Mid-Holocene, their distribution can be used as the basis for modelling Mid-Holocene population concentrations. Artefacts with elaborate morphologies also allow the modelling of social interaction. The declining availability of the Castanopsis nut following land clearance would have played a major role in the abandonment of mortars and pestles in the highlands. Decreasing coastal connectivity due to the infilling of the Sepik-Ramu inland sea may have also played a role in this abandonment. The continued availability of canarium and coconuts in coastal areas allowed the making of nut and starch puddings to continue. However, the pottery bought by Austronesian speakers (Lapita) would have allowed tubers to be steam-cooked, and the softer result probably led to stone versions of mortars and pestles being abandoned and replaced with wooden versions.

New species of Nesocricos and Tanycricos (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae: Cheirochelinae: Tanycricini) in the mountains of West Papua, Indonesian New Guinea

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1714 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
ROBERT W. SITES ◽  
SUPUTA _
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Mountain Streams ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Two New Species

Two new species of Tanycricini are described from mountain streams of Indonesian New Guinea. Both species were collected at 1,348 m elevation from Ingging River in West Papua. Nesocricos ingging Sites n.sp. was represented by macropterous and submacropterous forms. Tanycricos inequalis Sites n.sp. was represented by macropterous and brachypterous forms. Nesocricos evops La Rivers is reported from the Baliem Valley of Indonesian New Guinea.

Limbodessus skalei sp. nov., a new diving beetle species from the west Papuan Archipelago (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-592
Author(s):  
LARS HENDRICH ◽  
SURIANI SURBAKTI ◽  
MICHAEL BALKE
Keyword(s):  
New Guinea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
The West ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Diving Beetle

Here we describe Limbodessus skalei sp. nov. from the island of Waigeo, off the coast of West Papua. It can be easily distinguished from the nearby New Guinea mainland species as well as the other members of the genus by its small size and testaceous elytra with conspicuous darker broad basal and subapical patches. Altogether four Limbodessus species are now known from the New Guinea region. 

scholarly journals Pacific journalism solidarity in the face of overwhelming forces

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Fred Wesley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
West Papua ◽  
The Face

Commentary: The Melanesian Media Freedom Forum (MMFF) notes democracy is in retreat and journalists like Victor Mambor (West Papua), Scott Waide (Papua New Guinea) and Dan McGarry (Vanuatu) are carrying the baton for media freedom. There has been a global reversal for a free press that has spanned countries in every region, including long-standing democracies like the United States and consolidated authoritarian regimes like China and Russia. The pattern has been consistent and ominous.

scholarly journals Features of Socio-Economic Development of the Province of Papua. (Part 4.)

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-114
Author(s):  
A.V. Popov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Population ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Republic

The article analyzes the features of socio-economic development of the province of Papua. The Western part of the island of New Guinea, now the province of Papua and West Papua, has been part of the Republic Indonesia since 1963. During this period, the territory previously populated predominantly by Papuan tribes, have been substantially Malayali, and currently, people from other parts of Indonesia, who is mainly Mongoloids, make up not less than a half of the local population. For more than five decades, the Central authorities of Indonesia have made some efforts for the economic development of Papua, as well as the introduction of the local population to more modern forms of economy.

scholarly journals Features of Socio-Economic Development of the Indonesian Province of West Papua (Part 1.)

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-117
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Popov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Population ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Republic

The article analyzes the features of socio-economic development of the province of West Papua. The Western part of the island of New Guinea, now the province of Papua and West Papua, has been part of the Republic Indonesia since 1963. During this period, the territory previously populated predominantly by Papuan tribes, have been substantially Malayali, and currently, people from other parts of Indonesia, who is mainly Mongoloids, make up not less than a half of the local population. For more than five decades, the Central authorities of Indonesia have made some efforts for the economic development of Papua, as well as the introduction of the local population to more modern forms of economy.

scholarly journals REVIEW: Documentary records continuing independence struggle in West Papua

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-311
Author(s):  
Nicole Gooch
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Foreign Correspondent

The War Next Door, reported by Sally Sara. Foreign Correspondent. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast: 12 May 2020. 30 minutes. https://www.abc.net.au/foreign/the-war-next-door/12239998 ‘WE GOT to keep on pushing forward,’ sings the band Sorong Samarai, which means from the tip of West Papua, Sorong, to Samari, the island which lies at the eastern tip of mainland Papua New Guinea, Samarai. ‘One people, one soul, one destiny.’

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