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Border People
Manda village was not big. There were only twenty stilt houses scattered quite far from each other. All the houses were made of gedek (bamboo) and were quite large.
Children in Manda Village, Papua New Guinea.
My arrival in Manda village, Papua New Guinea, was greeted with high suspicion by local residents. The location of the village, which is near the Indonesian border and OPM (Free Papua Organization) camps along the Fly River, made the people of Manda suspicious of my arrival.
I was alone in this village, in front of village men who refused to answer my questions. They continued to stare at me with unfriendly looks and continued muttering in their own language.