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THE WEST PAPUA PEOPLE

Speaking about West Papua Culture is a very difficult job, since they almost have no culture, every group, or every clique has their own specific behavior or customs that is not related, even between house to house. There are a great variation, of culture from those having slight relation from one to an other up to those having definitely no observable relation. Their relation is basically based on genealogy relation which is mostly also disordered. This is added again by the dozens of different languages spoken by each clique or group, as a real big stone block to understand the whole situation

(Cultural Carnival in Manokwari of West Papua )
Check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c08XWJr0p5A

Among those there are some simple cultures already well known such as Baliem tribe, Dani tribe, Yali tribe, and Agat tribe. But almost all of them physically have the same characteristics. In the past most of them were living deep in inner land and on foot of mountain, some of them build their nest on the trees. With the unity of West Papua into Republic Indonesia, government have tried to persuade them to live a more settled manner with cultivated land, so some of them went down to the open areas and more cultivated areas, and adjust themselves to the new life which is pioneered by the migrant from other parts of Indonesia, such as around North coast, cities and centers of local governments.

The main factors of their low mentality which is not conducive for their development are their extreme primitive life and social system. But their primitive life is the main attraction for experts as well as tourists to visit West Papua. It is famous just because they are primitive, with their housing is also very simple in great harmony with the nature, as they still not wear cloth, as their chieftain corps is kept for years at home as a mummy, and their pig feast.

Glossary:


1. Affraid	Takut
2. Local	Setempat, Lokal
3. Variation	Variasi
4. Primitive	Sederhana, Primitif
5. Suppressed	Tertindas
6. Stones	Batu
7. Ceremony	Upacara
8. Exchange	Pertukaran
9. Natural	Alami
10. Land	Tanah

a. Fill the blank based on the text

- Papua Culture is a very difficult job, since they almost have no (……….) , every group, or every clique has their own specific behavior or (………) that is not related, even between house to house.

- Some United State (………..) members that do not know about what development in West Papua used this situation of their moves, as if they are (………) of the provocated West Papua resident.

- Auwet Kibuan and Abowei who lived on high dry land were (……….) in cultivating land.

b. Answer the question !

- What are more interesting on the land of West Papua?

- What is your opiniom about the video?