Alcohol is officially banned in the West Papuanhighlands, but home-brewed alcohol (minumanlokal in Indonesian, literally, 'local drink') isinexpensive, widely available, and transforminginterpersonal, political, and gendered violence inthe area. Scholarship on alcohol in the Pacific viewsconsumption as a mode of male social differentiationrelated to racialised power and status, owing to thegendered, colonial history of alcohol consumption(Marshall 1982), as well as the 'prestige economy'of burgeoning resource sectors (Macintyre andBainton 2013). In contrast to beer and other formsof alcohol, home-brew has received less attention.