Stories from Papua, One Tab Away

Tabaca is an open-source browser extension that turns every new tab into a calm, clean page with essays, opinion, analysis and research about Papua — our picks, not daily news.

An initiative of Papua Open Source · MIT License

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Features

• Writing about Papua on every new tab: essays, opinion, analysis and research, in a calm card layout inspired by daily.dev. Not daily news. No account, no login.
• Our picks. We choose the writers and publications we follow, and add single articles from anywhere when they're worth reading. Every article has a thumbnail.
• Research, too. Open-access journal articles, books and reports about Papua (via OpenAlex), including work from Indonesian campuses (UNCEN, UNIPA, Musamus, UI, UGM, …) in the social sciences, business, technology, environment and health, appear with a clean cover showing the journal or publisher, the abstract as summary, and a link to the full text.
• For you is different on every new tab: recent and not-yet-seen pieces come first, but older essays keep showing up too. Shuffle gives you another set. Latest lists the newest first. Tabs filter by type (All · Articles · Research), and scrolling loads more.
• Click a card for a short summary. Use Read full story to open the article on its original site in a new tab. ⌘/Ctrl-click a card to go there directly.
• Quick search (⌘K, Ctrl K or /) through the stories, or straight to the web with your browser's default search engine.
• Copy and share a story's link, then share it to WhatsApp, X, Facebook or Telegram.
• Read stats: an anonymous count of how often a story was read through Tabaca. There are no upvotes and no comments.
• Only Papua, only safe. A story shows up only if it is about Papua, links to the site that published it, and doesn't match the blocklist (gambling spam, adult content, explicit graphic-content warnings).
• Admins curate in the backend admin panel: add feeds (e.g. an outlet's opinion section or a Papua topic), or paste the URL of a single article. Title, summary and thumbnail are filled in automatically.
• Dark, neutral and quiet. The interface is in English; stories stay in the language they were published in, which is mostly Indonesian.

Tabaca shows only the headline, a short summary, and a link to the original article. No article content is re-hosted.

How it works

Feeds we follow (RSS, Atom, WordPress API, OpenAlex) + single articles picked by hand
        │  fetch_stories (every 30 min)
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Django backend ── keeps pieces that are about Papua and safe (articles need a thumbnail)
        │  /api/v1/stories/
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Browser extension ── caches the collection and picks a new selection for each new tab

Repository

This is a monorepo managed with Turborepo and pnpm workspaces:

Path	What it is
apps/extension	The browser extension (WXT, React, Tailwind CSS)
apps/backend	The API and admin panel (Django, Django REST Framework)
packages/api	Typed API client shared by the frontend apps
packages/eslint-config	Shared ESLint configuration

Getting started

See DEVELOPMENT.md for local setup, the architecture, the API reference, and how curation and safety work.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md first. Proposals for new sources go through a source proposal issue.

License

MIT © Papua Open Source