Yos Sudarso Square, Asmat

PAPUA: The Rivers

A Thousand Day Flower

THE CAPTAIN

last day had come

deadly ambush quickly

on the vessel wall

cracked - torn -

thunderous waves

drag boat fall

down to the ocean floor

humans become violent

race against death

reach an increasingly sketchy life

shake in fear

blow your breath for

the last time, shivering

the frozen wheel

broken compass needle broken

wallowing in

sea ​​of ​​blood, no more

maps, no more direction

the remaining are now howling

anxiety that the longer

more quietly

silence and silencing

In The Unfortunate Sinking Ship Bimas Raya II

Habe Islands, Merauke end of 1999

THE CHILDHOOD

childhood flew

with a thousand butterflies

reveals the back door

gate time

the clear river water flowed

rocky

mellow rainbow arch

blow the blooming flower color

multicolored

flying with children

a thousand paper cranes

reveals a soft sky

white lumps like cotton

smoke hanging from every fire furnace

meandering, chanting songs

childhood coloring the horizon

identify the universe

hatred is the enemy

never depicted on the map

Tea Plantation Kali Gua, Brebes 1973

THE DANCING

- if no longer able to bear the burden: release ...

performances rumbles towards last half

dancer laments: "tired .... let me be the fog .... "

stage was white mist rolled

not easy to always pretend

but the mask had fused the old faces

spectators looked angry! tinkling gamelan

sigh chaotic roar of the wind

how long should delay time?

increasingly frail sky nearly melted in the crown of the head

sobbed become increasingly saturated fog misting

then bubbled as torrential rain, mendesislah voice, threatening

"completes the event!"

rain was sharp shiny sword

opponents scream

ever staging not bleed?

Timika Golden Hotel - Indonesia, June 30, 2011

Jew --Asmat Tradisional House-- Chapter IV

FORT OF THE "WARRIOR"

Asmat recorded history, long before the arrival of missionaries in order to spread the Gospel, precisely on February 4, 1953. Asmat tribe survived by hunting and gathering systems. A group of people living apart from the other, with the result of tribal warfare, beheading opponents are part of a defence strategy. A chief war is Beorpit or Biwiripit, gallant men the bravest and most behead opponents. Documentation of ritual is seen as a man who lay with paved skull of an enemy who successfully beheaded.

A Biwiripit is a "warrior" who grew up in customs procedures in order to become a champion. Ritual ordinance referred to in the custom-house, jew. Education for a soldier is a must for every young man who has surpassed initiation in the traditional feast called the Mother cem. Necessity is the logical implication of the defence system life, one group, from another attack constantly, so tribal war broke out already. Without the education of the "soldiers" in the jew, the village in question will be ravaged, without resistance, due to an enemy attack.

In the Asmat jew boy taught to make war supplies, is an axe, spear, short arms of cassowary bone, and darts. Besides taught to make war gear, the question being taught too young to use it expertly equipment. In tribal warfare, gallant youth who managed to decapitate an opponent, then it has been considered as adults. "Soldiers" bravest and most able to cut off your opponent's head, then he will be declared a war chief.

Education procession of the "soldiers" are sacred, closed to all women and children. War is a duty, responsibility and role of men in the community. A man would be so mean, when managed to occupy the position of the head of the war. Such lofty position coveted. As all women have no right to be involved in the procession, given the physically weak and getting weaker in the state to contain and breastfeeding.

Women even a prisoner of war for the winning side. Women also - among others - sparked the outbreak of war, because the beauty and charm worthy grabs. Women become important, because of its role in the regeneration and carry out their responsibilities in meeting the needs of consumers every day, without exception. Similarly, after the war ritual perpetuate themselves for many years in public life, the changes occur, as relations with the outside world slowly began to happen. According to records Verlag (2002: 49) first contact Asmat sporadically with the outside world in the early 17th century, on July 12, 1607, Win Vaes de Torres of Ship San Pedro wrote a letter to the King of Spain who preach exploration on the South Coast New Guinea and stated that the area was owned by the King of Spain. Nearly two centuries later, precisely on October 12, 1770, Captain James Cook and his crew met with the Asmat. He wrote that they were anchored near Pirimapun and the place was named Cook Inlet. Contact onwards occurred in the 1930s and has consistently continued when finally Pastor and Pastor Zegwaard post-Welling founded the first Catholic Church on February 4, 1954.

Contact with missionaries as evangelists, in
particular, provide a fundamental change to the lives of the Asmat. Gospel is not proclaimed war, especially headhunting directly resulting to the death of someone. Nine years later, on May 1, 1963, when Irian Jaya (now Papua) came to be a part of the Homeland, warfare and headhunting increasingly excluded from public life. Breach of the peace as for war headhunting tribe violated human rights.

Change this view is slowly, but surely rooted in community life. With this view, the figure of a "warrior" who had won a landslide in the battlefield slowly began to fade? A young man should never again be a "warrior", no longer have the ability to battle head beheading opponents. So, jew function as a fortress of the "soldiers" began to shift. Education for the "soldiers" of the original form of dexterity war, turned into education about behavioural attitudes as Asmat - real man - the man who thought well, behave well, and said well.

The carving is a skill that can not be separated, these skills are passed down through the process of socialization of the wow ipits to future generations. Jew into the right media for socialization referred. In the next generation jew also learn to carve, make the body ornaments of shells, saga, genemo - tree roots - pandan leaves and other decorations. Jew still function, even war and headhunting is no longer declared.

Over half a century later, after the missionaries consistently roll out the changes, particularly in the development of the mental attitude of the Asmat. While construction continues, the war and headhunting eventually imprint as history. Even though inter-tribal fights and violence often, but beheading opponents for any reason can not be justified. The "soldiers" had laid down their arms and implements of war. In traditional celebrations, then all "soldiers" again showing themselves to traditional finery complete with weaponry. However, they were no longer fighting, they were dancing and singing as an expression of joy.

Jew --Asmat Traditional House-- Closing

CHAPTER VII

CLOSING

As well as traditional houses found in every community, tongkonan-in Toraja society, the pavilion-at-Javanese Dayak longhouse in society, the customs house jew is basically a communal house that functions in order to maintain a life together in the community. Togetherness is absolute in the life of a community that has agreed to follow the norms and value system together. In maintaining unity, then the custom house is a construction that serves as a physical building to hold together the said infrastructure. Without unity, the life of a community will have inequality.

The existence jew had anticipated imbalances that may arise in the Asmat people. There are so many issues and conflicts that arise in the continuing life together, so we need an infrastructure in order to communicate, find solutions and build new hopes for a better life. Ritual in fulfilling religious life is absolute, build trust and confidence in the power of life. Jew deliberately prepared for the ceremony ritual referred to, so that the strength in life can be maintained.

It is an adaptation strategy in anticipation of the local geography, so a custom home construction shaped stage. Asmat region is the muddy swamp that does not allow any building pressed into the surface of the ground floor. Water that ebb and flow throughout the year is the "disaster" that should be handled by a variety of efforts, including by building the stage, so that water can not be submerged tidal house floor then raises another issue that is no less serious. Houses stage as well as in anticipation of the building to avoid the presence of wild animals.

Time and extend functionality jew according to the dynamics of community life. When the war was again declared, because it results in the loss of life, the jew no longer serve as a "fortress", the practice of war for the "soldiers". The continued development no longer provide room for inter-tribal warfare. Development requires coordination, as well as face-to-face communication between the authorities and society. Development requires a pre means in order to deliver the message, and forwards the packet program embracing all the people as a whole.

Construction and layout jew will answer the said purposes. As for the Java community hall is used as a means of organizing meetings and social activities, including the delivery of development messages. Jew then ultimately have the same functionality as the pavilion, as a gathering place, deliberation, partying while accepting the presence of government officials in order to realize the development program. In the reform era, when the Asmat region declared a county division, the legislative election campaign, the president, regents and governors are directly declared, jew even effective means his campaign in the villages. Given the field to open the campaign stage only found in urban areas Agats.

Changes and globalization extend functionality jew according to the evolving circumstances in the life of society, the one thing that can not be stopped. Jew as if it had been prepared to respond to changing times and circumstances. Indigenous and ritual continue, alongside the current changing times rolling indefinitely. Long before the era of reform took place, before the party of democracy penetrated into people's lives down to its most basic level, the existence of jew has provided learning democracy in the earliest time. So, when it finally came true democratic party, the Asmat have no difficulty in holding the said party, because the infrastructure available concerned the people, the jew.