10 - Students prepare Wamena’s famous buah merah (‘red fruit’) brought back to North Sulawesi by friends visiting home. The red fruit is reputed to have curative powers, and students sometimes distill it and sell it for extra cash. This is another way that students bring ‘Wamena’ with them into their new circumstances.

11 – Fans celebrate a match by Wamena’s soccer team, Persiwa, in North Sulawesi. Students love to spend time playing soccer themselves, and are proud of their team, partly because it often wins matches against teams from wealthier and more developed regions.     ii

Jenny Munro (jennifer.munro@anu.edu.au) is writing a PhD thesis on highlanders' experiences of discrimination in North Sulawesi. She is based in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.