Educating the public about the pornography bill and legal challenges against UU Porno at the Constitutional Court. Socialization On 30th October 2008 the controversial pornography bill (UU Pornografi, text in Indonesian and English translation) was passed by the parliament. On 9th December 2008 pres...

this is the Salty portion of todays presentation.. and yes it’s as salty as a dead seahorse up in this mug. lets start with the Pirate Asses in Somalia.. they got to speak with the Lil 12 year old girl. now they go showing they ass by not even tossing the baby a chunkachedda on they ducatdrop....

This is an article that was in the train newspaper today that got my attention: Mums kill their boys Women in Papua New Guinea's Highland region are killing their male babies to end a tribal fight that has raged for more than 20 years. Two women from the Eastern Highlands told PNG's National newspap...

Lawmaker John Manangsang, seeking to curb his province’s high-rate of HIV infections, has proposed a law where HIV/AIDS patients will be implanted with microchips to facilitate their tracking. The plan is to stay on top of their location, and “punish” them if they infect a healthy ...

In my dissertation on word-order change in the Austronesian languages of New Guinea, I reviewed some of the earliest published typological research in the area. Here is a glimpse of what obsessed some of the earliest European researchers. Over most of the territory occupied by Austronesian (AN) lang...

I just wanted to send a quick update to thank everyone for praying! The students all arrived safely and on time. We were able to set up our Interface kitchen in the small kitchen here and finally have everything pretty much organized. And we didn’t go insane in the process. “In this you ...

Some random links and news relating to PNG: Motu Koita people want compensation for colonialization: one unexpectedly interesting thing about this article is its avoidance of the terms ‘tribe’ or ‘indigenous’ — ‘tribe’ is mentioned once but stays out of the ...

Immigration to West Papua is said to be creating the conditions for sectarian conflict. A report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) of June 2008 says that tensions are rising between Muslims and Christians in West Papua as Christian Papuans feel threatened by the rise in numbers of Muslim migra...

Filed under: Oceania, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Ecotourism, Budget Travel Let's set this straight. According to hard evidence I have gathered, Victor Flanagan, an Australian also known as "Naked Nomad," didn't walk around naked all the time. He wore a sarong when walking through towns and a pair ...

Updated Christmas Day, 2007: As we noted in a previous post, many amateur Internet anthropologists, NE Asians, White Supremacists and other folks argue that SE Asians have substantial Australoid influence, which influences their phenotype. This harkens back to an earlier era in anthropology when thi...