More than 100 people are now known to have died in flooding in the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua.

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Noken is a knotted net or woven bag handmade from wood fibre or leaves by communities in Papua and West Papua Provinces of Indonesia.

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Exports from the field are slated to start in 2006 but the Tangguh project is not due to start generating revenues for the provincial government in West Papua for another decade or so.

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The richest of these, East Kalimantan, receives ten times more money per inhabitant than the poorest province, Banten, while the richest district (Fakfak, in West Papua) takes in 50 times more per person than the poorest (Belu in East Nusa Tenggarah).

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Both the Indonesian portion of the island in the west, and the independent country of Papua New Guinea in the east have infection rates of over 1%.

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