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    September 8, 2022

    The Baliem Valley lies in central highlands of the Indonesian Province of Papua, the western part of the island New Guinea. The valley has a size of approximately 1,600 sq.km at an altitude of about 1,650 m. Wamena is the main town at the Sungai Baliem. Up to now the valley is only accessible through air travel, the road network to the valley has not been completed, yet.
    The Baliem Valley is inhabited by the Dani, a tribe group of about 100,000 former Stone-Age cannibals and headhunters that have adopted some modern ways and become Christians but still practice clan warfare and worship animist spirits and live in their traditional kampungs, or compounds.
    factsanddetails.com/indonesia/Places/sub6_10j/entry-6836.html
    The population has experienced dramatic social changes since the arrival of Europeans in 1938.

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