TRADITIONAL DANCES

1. Sajojo Dance

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Sajojo once made to show  how easy papua people to get along with some people. 

All genders can dance this dance, all the kids or even the old ones. All may do this dance.

Some says, this dance has already created in 1990 era. Because of the happy moves, this dance became more famous and almost all of Papuan people at least know this kind of dance. 

This dance named Sajojo, because the soundtrack to accompany the dance is Sajojo. 

For the history, this dance tells about a beautiful girl in a village. All people loved and liked her. The moves of this dance are unique, because of that this dance is still preserved. 

2. Selamat Datang Dance

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In English, 'Selamat Datang' is 'Welcome'.

This dance named Selamat Datang, because this dance is used to welcome the honored guests in Papua. The dancers must not the men, the woman can be the dancers too. 

Papuan people are really proud of this dance, because this dance has some energetic moves and  there are some aesthetic values in this dance. 

The costum for this dance is traditional clothes, sometimes with traditional weapons or another atributes. They use tifa as the music.

 3. Perang Dance 

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Perang in english is 'war'

This dance in one of traditional dances in Papua. This dance has the meaning of Papua people's heroism. 

The dancers in this dance are the men with weapons for a war as atribute to show that Papua has some mighty men that ready to war.

This dance appeared, because at the past, there were some wars beetwen Sentani tribe with another tribes in Papua. So, the ancestry gave this dance to give some encouragement to the fighters in the war. 

This dance usually played by 7 or more people. Kerang, tifa and gendang are the music to accompany this dance. The moves are energetic and show some war skills such as archery, jump, peek the enemies and many others. 

4. Musyoh Dance

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This dance is one of sacred dances in Papua. This dance will be held when there is a member of family or even neighbors that get a death accident and estimated the spirit couldn't calm and quiet.

If we can see from the moves, it shows the energetic people of Papua. The dancers are usulally men. 

By the culture, this dance can be beneficial to expel spirit roaming. 

The costume for this dance is traditional clothes of Papua consist of koteka, rumbai skirt, and war equipment such as shield and spear. Sometimes, tifa can be the music for this dance. 

AND MANY OTHERS

TRADITIONAL CLOTHES

AWESOME AND UNIQUE FOODS OF PAPUA

1. Kue Sagu Bagea

   

Kue Sagu Bagea is a traditional cake which is popular in the eastern of Indonesia such as Papua, Palopo, Manado, Bugis, Maluku, etc. Honestly, this cake is a bit hard bitten of its hard texture, but when it is already in your mouth, the cake will turn out to be soft. In Papua, it is sometimes filled with green beans. 

2. Kue Lontar 

  

               

This kind of cake is really similar to milk pie. It is made of flour, milk and sugar and melted soft textured mouthfeel. It is very good to be the dessert after you eat papeda.

3. Martabak Sagu

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Martabak sagu is different from another kind of martabak. The main ingredient of it is sago. As an addition for the sweet taste, brown sugar sauce poures out on the martabak that has been fried. It has such a unique texture and it has a different taste that will make you addicted with this food.

4. Papeda

  

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This the most papular food of Papua. Who doesn't know this food? Most of people know this kind of food. Yap, papeda is made from sagu. The texture of papeda as you guys can see, it is like porridge and it is sticky like glue. The taste of papeda is bland because it is eaten just like rice. Papeda is usually served by tuna or mubara spiced saffron or yellow fish soup.

5. Sate Ulat Sagu

  

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Satay is usually made by chicken or meat, but this one is made from sago worms. It hears very disgusting, right? But the taste so great and delicious! True to its name must have come from the sago sago palm. But make no mistake, this worm will not be encountered in the sago tree is still standing upright (not cut), but the (stem) sago tree that had been felled. Usually the sago tree has been cut down and the sago has been taken, the sago tree trunks are left up to a few days. Well, wait a long while before the sago tree trunk rot by itself, and there it will begin to emerge caterpillars called sago worms. This food is a nutrious food.

6. Aunu Senebre

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Aunu senebre is a typical food of Papua and West Papua are made from raw materials anchovy rice mixed with sliced ​​taro leaves. This food has a texture that does not dry. Sliced ​​taro leaves also add a savory taste of aunu senebre. In Papua typical meal is usually eaten with a plate papeda or umbu tubers.

MOST POPULAR FOLK SONGS

1. YAMKO RAMBE YAMKO

Yamko Rambe Yamko is one of the most popular songs in Papua. As you all can hear describes something about happiness or joy or unpleasant impression by the rythms. But, the truth, this song contains sadness of war, strife, and resistance mainly Indonesian people against the invanders that occured before the year of 1945.

2. SAJOJO

So many people in Indonesia that have already known and heard this beautiful song. This song talks about a woman in a village. Her parents really loved her. She was very beautiful so all the men in that village had the same dream to have some talks with this woman.
Sometimes, people use this song to accompany gymnastics as the sound track in Papua or even in another inslands of Indonesia.

3. APUSE

This one i took from soundcloud and it has the new arrangement of music. If you want to hear the original one, please go to youtube and find by yourself.
Okay, this song talks about a grandchild that has a wish to got to another place. This grandchild has to wander away and leaving his/her grandparents. With sadness the grandparents let this grandchild leave them. I know it is maybe not really matters and important. But is there something wrong by knowing something new?