High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Benny Giay was born 12 January 1955 in the village Onago, Waketei district, on Lake Tigi in the Paniai Regency (or then: Wisselmeren) among the Me (or Ekagi people) in what was then Netherlands New Guinea. He is a theologian, a social anthropologist, and an activist, known for his activities in reconciliation to protect the rights of the Papuans of the Western, Indonesian controlled, part of New Guinea.