AMUNGME LIFES
Is Amungme Melanesian group consisted of 13.000 people who lived in the highlands of Irian Jaya province of Indonesia. They run the farm move, add to the hunting and gathering. Amungme very attached to their ancestral lands and the surrounding mountains considered sacred. Who made the center of the mountain of gold and copper mining by PT. Freeport Indonesia is a sacred mountain in the great society glorified by Amungme, Kawi Nemang name. Nemang means and Kawi arrows sacred meaning. Kawi Nemang means sacred arrows (free of war) peace. AMungme area called Amungsa.
Amungme is part of the Papuan tribes who inhabit several large valley in the district of Mimika and Puncak Jaya regenct between the highs mountains of the valley Tsinga, Hoeya valley, and valley Noema and small valleys such as valley bella, Alama, Aroanop, and Wa. Some seatled in the valley again Beoga (called Damal tribe, according to Dani calls) and the lowlands and the town of Timika AGIMUGA.
Amungme literally consists of two words that have different meanings of "amung" primary meaning and "mee" which means human being, according to legend passed down from generation to generation, said people come from regional Amungme Pagema (baleim valley) Wamena. This can be traced from Kurima word meaning place where people gather and that means hitigima first place of the ancestors of people Amungme establish honey of reeds.
Amungme people believe that they are the first descendants of the eldest son of the human race, they lived north and south central mountains are always shrouded in eternal snow Amungme language called nemangkawi (white arrows). People from the tribe Amungme Damal, large family eogam-e, child Delem tribe is the tribe that lived along the river Memberamo.
Behavior and character of the Amungme identical with nature, they menggangap her conqueror, the entrepreneur and the natural heir of the hand amungsa Into Nagawan (God). The severity of nature have shaped the character of mountain communities Amungme be hard, non-compromise, fair and gentlemen, and always doing preventive action in all activities.
There are two regional languages of the local Amung used by people living Amungme and Damal south-cal for Amungme people living in the north, but it has also Amungme different symbolic language with the language of everyday communication is Aro-A -cal is the kind of symbolic language of the most difficult to understand and communicate, and Tebo-a-cal as a kind of symbolic language is only spoken when in certain areas considered sacred.
The first contact with the outside world occured in 1936 when the leadership of carstensz expedition Dr. Colijn cs, through the Catholic mission in 1954 led by father Michael Cammerer asisted named Moses Kilangin and the Dutch goverment, the majority of people Amungme moved to coastal areas, in Akimuga until now, the reason for the transfer due to the spread of religion and service to the comunity Amungme not possible in the mountains.
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Amungme is part of the Papuan tribes who inhabit several large valley in the district of Mimika and Puncak Jaya regenct between the highs mountains of the valley Tsinga, Hoeya valley, and valley Noema and small valleys such as valley bella, Alama, Aroanop, and Wa. Some seatled in the valley again Beoga (called Damal tribe, according to Dani calls) and the lowlands and the town of Timika AGIMUGA.
Amungme literally consists of two words that have different meanings of "amung" primary meaning and "mee" which means human being, according to legend passed down from generation to generation, said people come from regional Amungme Pagema (baleim valley) Wamena. This can be traced from Kurima word meaning place where people gather and that means hitigima first place of the ancestors of people Amungme establish honey of reeds.
Amungme people believe that they are the first descendants of the eldest son of the human race, they lived north and south central mountains are always shrouded in eternal snow Amungme language called nemangkawi (white arrows). People from the tribe Amungme Damal, large family eogam-e, child Delem tribe is the tribe that lived along the river Memberamo.
Behavior and character of the Amungme identical with nature, they menggangap her conqueror, the entrepreneur and the natural heir of the hand amungsa Into Nagawan (God). The severity of nature have shaped the character of mountain communities Amungme be hard, non-compromise, fair and gentlemen, and always doing preventive action in all activities.
There are two regional languages of the local Amung used by people living Amungme and Damal south-cal for Amungme people living in the north, but it has also Amungme different symbolic language with the language of everyday communication is Aro-A -cal is the kind of symbolic language of the most difficult to understand and communicate, and Tebo-a-cal as a kind of symbolic language is only spoken when in certain areas considered sacred.
The first contact with the outside world occured in 1936 when the leadership of carstensz expedition Dr. Colijn cs, through the Catholic mission in 1954 led by father Michael Cammerer asisted named Moses Kilangin and the Dutch goverment, the majority of people Amungme moved to coastal areas, in Akimuga until now, the reason for the transfer due to the spread of religion and service to the comunity Amungme not possible in the mountains.
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- Chris Ballard, Fredrik Sokoy, Alfons van Nunen and Matt Richards (October, 2000)
- Nienhuis Refers to entries in P.Nienhuis (1968) Inventaris van het rapportenarchief van het Kantoor voor Bevolkingszaken (Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea) 1951-1962. 's-Gravenhage: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken. Reprinted in J.van Baal et al (eds.) (1984) West Irian: a bibliography. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, pp.205-307. All of these reports are held in the Algemeen Rijksarchief (ARA), at the Hague.
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