About the Author: Yamin Kogoya

Yamin Kogoya is a Papuan philosopher, writer and independent researcher from the Central Highlands of West Papua, currently based in Australia. His pioneering research examines the tension between the Cosmobian World — which he defines as organic, inter-relationally integrated human and ecological realities — and the Synthobian World — which he defines as artificial, highly engineered, fragmented human, ecological and technocratic systems of existence.

He originated the Psycho-Cosmocide paradigm, a philosophical framework investigating how organic Cosmobian worlds are dismantled, re-engineered, and sacrificed to fuel Synthobian civilisational machinery through interconnected logics of extraction, production, and consumption. His interdisciplinary work spans philosophy, religion, metaphysics, cosmology, ontology, epistemology, anthropology, indigenous studies, decolonial thought, semiotics, and civilisation studies.

He holds academic qualifications in Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Community Development, Asia-Pacific Studies and Anthropology, including a Master's in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development from the Australian National University. He has also completed advanced studies in the Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology) at the University of Oxford. His previous research and commentary on West Papua and the wider Cosmobian world in Oceania have been published in major regional and international media outlets, including SBS News, RNZ Pacific, Asia-Pacific Reports, The Fiji Times and The Jakarta Post.

The NATAKA Research Institute & Wone Press

He is the founder of the NATAKA Research Institute and the author of Papuan Tragedy, as well as numerous other philosophical treatises published through Wone Press in the Kurumbi Wone Series. The NATAKA Research Institute is an independent, critical research institution dedicated to examining the structural transformation of human reality, culture, memory, and consciousness. The Institute uses the Psycho-Cosmocide paradigm as a diagnostic framework to understand how Synthobian logic operates globally.

Its research investigates how Cosmobian worlds are systematically seduced and induced into what Kogoya terms 'participatory extinction' — a process by which communities inadvertently collaborate in dismantling their own existential and ecological foundations. The institute's primary research is grounded in the lived reality of West Papua, which is analysed as the definitive modern frontier where Synthobian logic is applied most aggressively. Through this lens, the Institute examines the mechanisms by which Cosmobian worlds have been psychologically reprogrammed by centuries of civilisational deception, ultimately sacrificing their own world for the preservation of the dominant Synthobian world order.