PAPUA – War dance was one of the dances performed at the Amungme Kamoro Local Culture Festival held by the Mimika Regency Government through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports (Disparbudpora) at the Former Swadaya Market Field, (Old Market). The festival featured a series of events such as a war dance performance typical of the Amungme tribe and several other dances performed by the Kamoro tribe community.
Acting Regent of Mimika, Johannes Rettob directly opened the Amungme Kamoro local culture festival accompanied by Forkopimda. Chairperson of the Committee as well as Secretary of the Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports Office, Santi Sondang, revealed that through the festival, the community is the main actor in developing culture in their area, including in Mimika Regency.
“So for the next one week this festival will be held at this location and we hope that the participation of the Timika community will be present to witness it,” said Santi Sondang. He said the festival was held to highlight the value of local cultural wealth and cultural progress to preserve so that people can love and be proud of their local culture and products.
He continued, participants from this festival included the Amungme tribe, Kamiro, junior-high school students, studios from Amungme Kamoro, Papua Youth Kreatif and fashion show participants. “We socialize to all participants of activities and festival performances by performing dances. We also have an exhibition stand so that it can become a shopping location for the community,” he said.
He continued, this activity is one of a series that has been carried out such as the Indonesia Tourism 2024 exhibition in Bali. At that time the exhibition was attended by 30 participants in which, one of the studios from Mimika won 1st place in general and favorite,” he said.
This activity is one of three exhibitions that have been carried out previously because, after all, the government must introduce local culture. “This festival will be followed by a cultural carnival known as the Tifa Festival in July,” he explained.