Association of the Archipelago Enlivens the One Million Swamp Mappi Culture Festival
MAPPI,|BIDIKDUNIA.COM|-
The One Million Swamp Culture Festival, which was first held by the Mappi Regency Government, Papu, has entered its second day with the agenda of the Archipelago Cultural Carnival and the Mappi Indigenous Culinary and Craft Exhibition.
The cultural carnival was enlivened by the national community starting from East Nusa Tenggara, Java-Madura, Bali, Maluku, Toraja, Tanimbar, Southeast Sulawesi, South Sulawesi and North Sulawesi and of course the six indigenous tribes of Mappi, Yaqhai, Tamario, Awyu, Wiyaghar and Koroway.
The carnival was released by the Acting Regent of Mappi, Michael Rooney Gomar, SSTP MSi in the courtyard of the Obaa District Office, Tuesday.
Then the carnival participants walked along the main road of Kepi City and ended at the Qhaidau Uri Building on Jalan Bawape Kepi.
The community wears traditional clothes and traditional dances from their respective regions which are displayed along the way. Likewise, in the courtyard of the Qhaidau Uri Building, the participants again performed traditional dances in front of the Acting Regent and Forkopimda. This cultural attraction is a spectacle as well as entertainment for the people of Kepi.
The Yaqhai tribe, the indigenous Mappi tribe, expressed their joy in welcoming the One Million Swamp Culture Festival through party dances, dances of expression of joy, dances of joy and dances of peace as a picture of living hand in hand, uniting with other tribes.
Likewise with the Awyu Tribe. almost the same as the Yaqhai Tribe in terms of dance. The difference is that the Awyu tribe is better known for their house dances and friendship dances which convey a message of friendship and maintain order and comfort in Mappi.
Regent Gomar said the archipelago’s cultural carnival showed the unity and integrity as well as the tolerance that was being maintained in Mappi Regency. With various ethnic, religious and racial backgrounds, they can coexist peacefully.
The cultural carnival of the archipelago is on the agenda of the One Million Swamp Culture Festival to convey a message to the outside world about the diversity that exists in Mappi Regency.
(Franky Kemong)