The U.N. cultural agency UNESCO recognized the traditional bag as needing urgent safeguarding in 2012 because there are fewer crafters making noken and more competition from factory-made bags.

UNESCO has renewed its call for Indonesia to close the Trans-Papua road that runs through a national park in the easternmost region of Papua, citing environmental concerns. The call comes after ...

POS-KUPANG.COM, JAKARTA - UNESCO mengapresiasi Indonesia khususnya Papua atas laporan periodik kedua tentang Noken, yang telah tercatat dalam Daftar Warisan Budaya Takbenda UNESCO sejak 2012.

UNESCO has called for the closure of a long stretch of road that runs through Lorentz National Park, a World Heritage Site, in Indonesia’s Papua region.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Three archaeological sites in West Papua could be included on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, said head of the Jayapura Archeological Center, Muhammad Irfan, as reported by Antara ...

A new post has just been published on the ESD Prize Blog by Angela Beer, Program Founder and Advisor of the Kalabia Education Program, Indonesia, which won the UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for ...

PON XX PAPUA - Mama Maria Ukago (53) saat memegang dua Tas Noken hasil rajutannya, di Jalan Raya Abepura Sentani Kota Jayapura Papua, Rabu 6 Oktober 2021 POS KUPANG.COM - Tas tradisional asli Papua, ...

Gubernur Papua Barat Daya dan Bupati Raja Ampat kompak menyatakan masyarakat menolak penambangan nikel di Pulau Gag ditutup.

UNESCO. Tari, Papua New Guinea, 1965. A boy is born on a carpet of ancient ficus leaves in the high deepland forest. Mundiya is his name, pronounced “Mudeejay”. A tree is planted, as it is for every ...

The World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City has added eight new cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on the morning of the 7 of July. With these inscriptions, Papua New Guinea and ...