The village of Tomor, where rivers weave like snakes through thick forest, is so remote that its 500 residents have no regular access to education and health services supplied by the government.
Health officials said 790 children were stricken with malnutrition and a measles outbreak in January, killing at least 72 of them.
Despite visits by President Joko Widodo to the country’s poorest region, Asmat children in Tomor village still suffer from malnutrition and lack of access to education, July 22, 2018. [Ryu Zaki/BenarNews]
An Asmat boy carries his brother in the village of Tomor in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, July 22, 2018. [Ryu Zaki/BenarNews]
A mother poses with her four children for a photograph in Tomor, July 22, 2018. [Ryu Zaki/BenarNews]
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