A S M A T -One Day in The Ewer Village

Ewer appearance trucks in service in the framework of sustainable development runway for aircraft flying Fokker into specifics. The above ground slurry when ground transportation is available carts, bicycles, and electric motors, the existence of a truck that serves as a means of transport construction materials runway becomes even entertainment. A visiting Ewer even have to point the finger, "Look, there's a truck!" The expression of joy. There is also the intention to ride the truck just to feel how the impression ride ground transportation in the marshland.

Kampung Ewer as air gate to the Asmat region is the home to the soil conditions are better when compared to other villages on the waterfront. Good soil conditions is not only deserves to be built as the runway, but also supports the growing diversified crops, including palm trees. Palm leaves shaded the daily atmosphere around the village, young coconuts is a refreshing food especially when thirst. Old coconut many benefits for business kitchen, as well as palm leaves along leaf segments, each of which has benefits in everyday life.

Ewer same township as 221 other Asmat village situated on the banks of the river flow --were all an initial strategy of the forerunner of the founder of the village to meet local needs for water at once anticipate mobility from one village to another, it is impossible for locals to mobility other villages except for passing the flow of river water.

Rowing is ci -boat  activity moves to a place to meet goals, such as capture - fishing, searching for crabs, go to the forest file sago or social visits. Model boat canoe with a narrow space causes rowers to move his hands in a standing position.

Road infrastructure available in the villages is a wooden bridge with wooden fitting arranged --iron wood (insensia biyuga). The wooden bridge anticipate situations slack tide-water tides that could drown the whole surface of the water. Road infrastructure is too simple cause people tend to walk in the framework of mobility in the village. There are almost no motorcycle or bicycle in the village, because the diameter of the villages are relatively close.

Road transport infrastructure hardening become rare in Asmat, almost all locally available transport infrastructure is the road bridge. However, in the framework of the extension and hardening of the airport runway Ewer, hardening of the road infrastructure needs to be made as a passing truck transporting building materials for the runway.

Houses on stilts, either in the form of semi-permanent or a standard home model dominates in the Asmat region, including in the village Ewer. The basic ingredients of housing construction is a wooden board and extolled as a pole. Roofs can be made of palm leaves or zinc. Everyday after a busy draining for subsistence. A mother needs to take a rest on the porch of the house while keeping the child. Mother and son are two figures are inseparable.

When the plane Mussamus run airline Merpati is no longer in operation, as well as GT Air, then Trigana Air Twin Otter became the alternative of air transport in addition to the AMA plane belonging to Missionaries and Susi Air. Ewer Airport flight schedule to set at the beginning of the year. Air route as Trigana Timika Ewer with ticket prices fluctuated around Rp. 700,000,00. AMA uses Pilatus aircraft types with a ticket price of about Rp. 1,000,000,00. MAF and Susi Air aircraft type Pilatus take route flights Ewer- Merauke fluctuations different prices.

After the runway, concrete bridges, coconut village, Ewer still has one advantage is that solar power program of the Department of Industry and Mining. With the pemangkit solar power, then power facilities in homes can be lit for 24 hours. There are no dark atmosphere at night, even solar power does not require high operating costs, except for routine maintenance of the operator. Hope that all Asmat village will have this same plant.