The sound of the shaded twigs, while the foots of the lincah Sentanis dancing on the boat, while the other part of the participants hold the arrows while hunting. The blue sky and the lake water that adorns the scene perfectly.
Sentani Lake Festival entered into the sixth year in 2016. The cultural-based annual festival, the custom of istiadat and nature charm lasts for five days. In this year, the Sentani Lake Festival raised the theme One In Diversity of winning success.
A total of 24 villages from 21 islands in Lake Sentani became participant. The festival presents a variety of istiadat customs that have long been in the life of Sentani Lakes. A number of traditional events such as war dances, traditional arrows and boat races, to Papua’s signature handcrafts such as noken and carved decorations are introduced to large communities, and tourists through this festival.
Men bring war dance in the 9th Sentani Lake Festival in Khalkotte Tourism Area, East Sentani, Papua.
The Color of Lake Sentani brought a banana as a result of the earth in the Ke-IX Lake Festival in Khalkotte Tourism Area, East Sentani, Papua.
The most distinctive feature of the Sentani lake festival is Isolo. This dance is a dance that symbolizes intersuku’s friendliness. Dancing, sorry, and graying tifa reveals joy and gratitude over the boat and bring their earth results like bananas, ubis, as well as hunt results like pigs.
Sentani Lake Festival became an annual tourist destination. Not only foreign and domestic tourists who become the target, people around Sentani to Jayapura also came to the festival. But not being sent, the tribes living in Sentani increasingly follow the hours, the struggle between the tribes is less, and the profession of the society who used to live from capturing fish and hunting are now part of them work in offices and further.
In the end of this festival reminds the visitors to return to local wisdom.
The Lake of Sentani was seen from Doyo Lama Village, East Sentani, Papua.
The Color of Lake Sentani runs on the dock in the Ke-IX Lake Festival in Khalkotte Tourism Area, East Sentani, Papua.
Photo and Text: Rosa Panggabean
The dancers of the face in the Khalkotte Tourism Area to follow the Sixth Sentani Lake Festival in East Sentani, Papua.
Warga practiced dance in the opening of the Ke-IX Lake Festival in Khalkhote Tourism Village, East Sentani, Papua.
The Ayapo temple was seen from the center of Sentani Lake in the Ke-IX Lake Festival in Khalkotte Tourism Area, East Sentani, Papua.
Warga brought Isolo ritual in the opening of the Ke-IX Lake Festival in Khalkhote Tourism Village, East Sentani, Papua.
Warga brought Isolo ritual in the opening of the Ke-IX Lake Festival in Khalkhote Tourism Village, East Sentani, Papua.
The number of carvings in the wood skin in the village of Asei, in the Ke-IX Lake Festival in East Sentani, Papua.
The inhabitants watch the Ke-IX Sentani Lake Festival in East Sentani, Papua.
The children play near the dock in Khalkotte Tourism Area, East Sentani, Papua.
Wisatawan climbs hills in Doyo Lama Village with the background of the Cycloops Mountain, Jayapura Regency, Papua.
