Melanesians

Most of the Melanesians living in Papua New Guinea have very curly hair, don't they?

Native Fijians are Melanesians, a kind of Australoid people, but they speak a Malayo-Polynesian language, perhaps adopted anciently from islander neighbours who were not Melanesians. My neighbours, the Wongs, who are multiracial from Fiji, know a bit of Fijian. They like learning English, but I say to them, "Your Fijian is much more beautiful!"

Unlike the rest of Indonesia, the people of Papua province are ethnic Melanesians and their culture more closely resembles that of groups in South Pacific islands.