Mode Of Education

Papua has the lowest level of adult literacy in the Indonesia, at 74.4 percent (Indonesia Human Development Report 2004).

In some rural areas, the figure reaches to around 30% among adult men and 50% among adult women with some areas having almost zero literacy. Overall school attendance is low and the percentage of dropouts among the pupils who leave primary school is also high.

There are many reasons for the poor levels of education and literacy and school attendance  which includes the poor quality of the education system, facilities and low commitment from teachers especially in rural areas.

In general, schools away from the  government schools are found in a main village but the rest of the villagers are staying too far away for the children to walk. Secondary schools are mainly in towns and basic facilities are poorly equipped and also, with many students crammed into very small and unhygienic conditions places is not a good place or environment to study.

Their languages

Indonesia

Bahasa Indonesia is the national and official language in the entire country. It is the language of official communication, taught in schools and spoken on television. Most Indonesians today speak at least two languages or more, Bahasa Indonesia and their local language, of which Indonesia counts more than 300 regional languages. There are 583 languages and dialects spoken by the different ethnic groups in Indonesia.

Dani's

For example, Americans have a large various of names for colors however, the Dani tribe only has 2:  one for dark "cold" colors & one for lighter "warm" colors.  -Eleanor Rosch

Language relativity hypothesis is a concept where by for examples, Dani held two colour‘mili’ and ‘mola’.These terms are unique as they do not describe either brightness or  individually, but a combination of the two. Dani are not stable with their usage of colour terms; for instance, when asked which chip was the best example of ‘mola’ most Dani chose a dark red, but some chose a light pink. Furthermore, it had suggested the best example of mola was a dark red were ‘equally likely to acknowledge or deny the existence of a ‘red’ term’.

Indigenous groups In Indonesia

Below Examples are some of the Indigenous Group that can be found in Indonesia in parts of the Provinces. In Just one island of Sulawesi, there are already 3-4 Indigenous group available. hence, with the Big number of Groups, Indonesia Government is slowly promoting and preserve the Rights and protect the Indigenous Group as it also served a source of Revenue in increasing the number of Tourism Receipts. In terms of DISNEYFICATION, indigenous groups regions has been opened up and they will have to learn to get used to it by having Tourist of different skin Colours or hair colours to come and visit their homes.

Their indigenous groups

-          TheWana, West Sulawesi
-          Tombulu tribe, North Sulawesi
-          Dani, West Papua*
-          Halmahera, North Maluku province of Indonesia
-          Mentawaians, Siberut Island






*I will be Focusing on Dani's tribes! =D

Tradition Of Dani

Dani's are considering a world-renowned tradition of wood carving. These carvers create forms of plants or animals, because they believe these are their ancestor beings. They also create traditional skull portraits. this is what some Buddhism believe that when during the 7th days of the dead, they will transform to certain things and come back to see their families. This is called the Beliefs

Old traditions

Sex is taboo for the women after giving birth, for 2 to 5 years. hence, Dani raised fewer but healthier kids since the women’s focus is on babysitting during the first years of their kids life.

Dani men are allowed to have more as many wifes as they can afford. A man should give 4-5 pigs to the girl’s parent he wants to marry. For Dani men, his social status are being seen or judged by the number of wives and pigs he has.

Way Of Cooking

The Dani people bring the banana steams, leaves and submerged in the pond. After that they put them in the huts (fire place) until it takes 2-4 months. Then they sell among the local people or to the relatives, but sometimes they put on the steam.

Description of Making Spear

Iron trees only grow in a colder area  of West -Papua which helps to make into Weapon. The People in the highland areas, especially the Dani people get the Iron tree from the jungle and then put them in a pond or under running water. After two or three months,  they will then polish it with pig fat.  Long time ago, long iron spears were used to kill enemies of other tribes in  the highlands, but also to hunt wild pigs.