Thursday, March 24, 2016

ASMAT --From Behind The Lens: Dimensional Reality of Life




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After a night lit by the moonlight and the stars, then a few hours before the morning light breaks down, the weather can change so quickly. Rain forests store water continues to evaporate into mist, overcast, and prepared as  water gushing out of the sky. Activities in the morning under a stream of rain and occasional fog is very common in this region. Bridge board and composite bridge into a slick, two-wheeled cyclists and electric motors must walk more carefully so as not to fall slipped into the mud.

Stream of water means a blessing from the highest place, the sky. Air meet community needs will need to drink, regular consumption, bathing, and washing. Every household has a tension, drem, trays, cans of water as a storage place for daily needs. While rain water gushing saved, when about three weeks of rain was also down, the water supply is still sufficient for survival. Families who do not have enough water reservoirs, will be looking for specific places that can provide water.

Rain can fall a full day, but more often stalled when the sun went high. Doors and windows of houses began to open, the activity of house cleaning and preparation for consumption daily routine starts. The clerks prepare to go to the office for routine tasks, students and teachers begin to prepare to go to school in order mencerdasakan task nation. The bustle of the market began to be held, groceries, vegetables, fish, and chicken offered. Thus pila with stalls offering a variety of activities of daily living needs, on the porches of home sellers offering yellow rice and cakes moist, buyers arrive, the transaction took place.

In the villages, jew -home-flunky as the one of the largest buildings still standing strong, ready to keep life together in the said village. Daily activities began to move, sago file means go into the woods with a rowing boat or a boat ride fiber support from Fisheries and Maritime Affairs. Opting means going to the waters off the region to obtain fish catches. Fish that excess will be offered to buyers in the market, the fish in small quantities would only enough for regular consumption collectively. That members of other relatives will come again to the house to get the day's consumption.

Lodging in the capital area Agats, electricity will turn right at 08.00 AM and extinguished at 15:00 PM. A social progress for the facility from the year 2014. Activities of office ends at 16:30 PM on Saturday. Sunday, and red date is a holiday together. While other activities continue as usual. The ambiance in the morning would be a "special" on Sunday when Motor Ship. Tatamalau or Motor Ship Cilimau  and Motor Ship. Muyu sound an audible stom up all over the city. Residents who intend to mobility will go flocking carrying a suitcase, bag, or carton headed to the dock. A few hours later the atmosphere in the market will become more crowded with a variety of merchandise brought by traders from Timika, major vegetables, fruits, breads, snacks, and so forth. After a few hours docked ship will continue its journey to Merauke about 30 hours shipping, accounting for about 30 hours after the ship docked at the pier Merauke will be docked back at the dock Agats. Motor Ship Cilimau will continue the cruise up to Ambon or Surabaya. KM. Tatamalau will continue the cruise up to Bitung.

The roar of the aircraft will also resonated break up the sky, taking the best AMA service flights Ewer - Merauke, while Trigana who took low Mapi - Timika will pass well above the town Agats. Ewer Pioneer Airport runway while still under repair facilities and infrastructure to prepare for better transport in the framework of population mobility. The local transportation facilities in the district is a speed boat, as well as means of transport in urgent circumstances, when mobility to Timika must pass beyond scheduled passenger ships and aircraft. Occasional helicopter rumbling sound in the air, as if there is mobility so important, outside the passenger ship services, Trigana or AMA.

Commencing at the turn of the year until the early months of the new year very strong west wind blowing, sometimes destroy the gate and trees. Marine accidents inevitable in this month. When the wind subsides, the crawler boisterous catch shrimp and sell them to the market. After That hot air back to June, everyone will complain, because hot even at night. By July, when the sun rotates on the Tropic of Cancer, in the Australian falling snow. Freezing air as if to waft from very far to the Asmat region. The morning after the rain the air is very cold even when the sun moved higher, the afternoon air gets cold and froze at night. Then, on the morning everyone had to struggle against cold air to start the activity.

At 08.00 AM when the power is on, the television as a medium of mass communication began to broadcast to inform a variety of news and entertainment on the other hemisphere. Engine coolant works to preserve meat, fruit, and vegetable major. The streets were busy with passing pedestrians and motion electric motor. Electrical facilities facilitate community activities in improving the standard of living as well as get a decent chance as citizens of an independent country, when the red and white flag every morning was hoisted to the top of the pole.

As part of the Shah of Homeland red and white flag was officially hoisted, especially on Warning Anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence, every 17th of August. Under the fluttering red and white children are born, grow, play with peers in every corner of the remaining pages. Travel time bring it to adulthood, past education, establishing itself in a life together in family ties, are old, and finally gone.

Before heading absence, so youth is a time when every individual plays an important role in social life, activities as part of communion at home flunky, carve, held a traditional ceremony, so that social order can be maintained. Jew stands in every village, the ancestral carvings as the stake is a belief, that even has gone, but the spirit of ancestors always in unity, enduring even after death separates.

In the jew engraving lowered, the ancestral spirits again present in every dimension of life, on the situation better or worse. Carving displays artistic expression at stake jew, ritual sculpture mbis, simple technology and their canoe paddle, eating utensils – sago plate -armament -solawaku ax-handles. As for the traditional parties, the party is blessing the house's attendant, party spirit and party mbis statue serves as a social cohesion that perpetuate isti indigenous customs in order to worship ancestral spirits as communal identity.

While people's lives continue in rituil traditional party as well as confidence in the natural life there that is manifested in the carving, the buying and selling on the market can not be stopped anyway. Markets meet human needs for daily consumption, the seller set a survival strategy and daily shopping when the buyer must also be maintained.

Health services are an integral dimension of the main task of the medical as well as the whole range of human resources in order to build on the initial steps. Development of Community Health Centers became Agats Hospital is a step forward in the framework of public services, provide health insurance, and life expectancy is longer. Without health no one would be able to do daily duty to pursue ideals.

Any teaching and learning process in order to pursue the ideals remain a part of community development concerning the improvement of the quality tbsp. Students in kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school every morning outside a day off in droves to go to school, studying for a better future. Nothing a better process in the development of human resources is sustainable except through the process of learning from level to level. University level education can be obtained by leaving the Asmat region for students who have completed high school education.

Education serves to build the totality of human resources, including in achieving gender equality. Globally institutionalized gender issues very much in people's lives with a different change and progress. Changes have also occurred in the Asmat region, especially after the regional growth takes place. Women are still doing domestic work, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, raising children, looking for firewood, gathering, capture, providing daily meals and clean the whole house. However, the regional growth has brought with it Asmat women to complete secondary education and higher education, as teachers, midwives, civil servants, the Heads of Head Office. Asmat women not only domestic chores alone, have begun efforts and achieve equality.

HR potential Asmat region while engaged in an effort to independence of a territory. Potential and independence is a prerequisite for strengthening the dimension of a region, including tourism. Geographical conditions, isti indigenous customs, have the ability to carve out a capital base in attracting the flow of tourists. While adequate human resources is a subject that is not less important in the tourism itself. Humans as the host will revive tourist sites are already available and feasible to be developed.



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