Papua

Papua

1. Location

 is the largest and easternmost province of Indonesia, comprising most of western New Guinea. Papua is bordered by the nation of Papua New Guinea to the east, and by West Papua province to the west. Its capital is Jayapura. It was formerly called Irian Jaya (before that West Irian or Irian Barat) and comprised all of Indonesian New Guinea. In 2002 the current name was adopted and in 2003 West Papua province was created from western parts of

Papua province.

2. Culture
-Dress/Clothing
Physically, papua’s traditional clothing is skirt-type looking made of dried palm leaves or coconut fiber. There are birds feather used as accessories for the bracelet and necklace. They usually used paradise bird feathers as accessories for their clothing.
 
 

Uniquely, Papua’s traditional clothing is not made of cloth. These clothing are usually used for everyday use, even though only the old tribes still used this kind of clothing. Even more, Papua still believe this clothing as their traditional clothing that’s usually used for traditional events or wedding.









Papuan don’t use make up, they use face painting all over their faces and body usually using white color to decorate their looks. They too use pig tusk to bring the white color. Even though they have dark skin color, they like to use white color accessory such as pig tusk to decorate their clothing.



-Food
Papeda


Papeda or bubur sagu, is sago congee, the staple food of native people in Maluku and Papua. It is commonly found in eastern Indonesia, as the counterpart of central and western Indonesian cuisines that favour rice as their staple food.
 
Papeda is made from sago starch. The Moluccans and Papuans acquire the starch by felling the trunk of a sago palm tree, cutting it in half, and scraping the soft inner parts of the trunk, the pith, producing a crude sago pith flour. This flour is then mixed with water and squeezed to leach the starch from the flour. The still moist sago starch is usually stored in a container made of sago palm leaflets, called tumang in which it will keep for several months before spontaneous fermentation will turn it too acidic and unsuitable for making papeda. Depending on the variety and the growing conditions, it may take a sago tree five to fifteen years to accumulate enough starch in its trunk to make the effort of extracting it worthwhile.














-Dance
 Papua Dance, this one of the culture from the part of Indonesian is great for you if you want to visit Indonesia and this is the great for you because you can learn about the Indonesian culture since there is a traditional part of the culture.
Well, everybody knows that Indonesia is one of the country which rich of culture from the lands itself and this can be the impressive moment when you just visit the Indonesia and one of the great culture is about the dance from Papuan. Papuan actually live in the east of Indonesia and it is for the dense jungles. With the dance which is so close about the nature completed and combined with the heart and also the energetic movement that make the spirit spread out. Not only that, but also you can feel with the dance and also the crazy dance for the beat.
If you want to see about the Papua dance and feel the spirit around your soul also want to know more about their traditional party by dancing, you can find it in the Papua.



-Song
 Example:

• Honai
  01:47
• 2.Save The Karon
  00:25
• 3.Wamena
  01:06
• 4.Sekolah Papua
  03:24
• 5.Badek
  00:35
• 6.Sasewar
  06:13
• 7.Pap Sau Dau Eges
  01:41
• 8.Teges Papua