Context: An Indian travel vlogger recently travelled deep into the jungles of Indonesia to meet the Korowai tribe, often referred to as a ‘human-eating’ tribe, and documented his experience on social media.

• Members of the remote Korowai tribe that has lived in relative isolation for centuries, surviving on hunting, gathering and fishing.

About Korowai Tribe

• Location: The Korowai tribe inhabits the southeastern region of Papua, Indonesia.

• Forest connection: The tribe has a profound bond with the forest, which provides them with food through hunting and gathering.

• Isolation: Until the mid-1970s, the Korowai had almost no interaction with the outside world.

• Treehouses: They are known for building treehouses elevated 8-15 meters above the ground, with some as high as 45 meters.

• Social structure: The tribe practices equality, with no formal hierarchy, valuing harmony among members.

• Cannibalism history: Historically, they practiced cannibalism for spiritual and social reasons, but this has largely ceased in recent times.

• Note: Cannibalism is the eating of human flesh by humans, also known as anthropophagy. It can be motivated by nutritional, ritual, or pathological reasons.