Culture of the World

Is the expression of grief displayed by someone who lost family members. Crying, goods times that we most often encounter. For the general public and especially mountian community center Wamena expressions of sadness due to loss of a family member not only to cry alone.

Cut Finger
Normally they would smear themselves with mud to a certain period. But what makes them different cultures with many tribal cultures in other areas are cut off their fingers.

Almost the same as what the Yakuza (the famous hard-line orangasasi in Japan) if they had violated rules set by the organization or fail in their mission. As an expression of remorse, they were obliged to cut off one of their fingers. For mountian community center, the cutting finger is conducted if the nearest family members such as husband, wife, father, mother, son, brother, or sister died.

This symbolizes the cutting finger pain and the pain of losing a beloved family member. The phrase is so profound, even to lose limbs. For the central mountains, the family has a very important role. For IDR Balim community togetherness in a family has its own values. "Węne opakima dapulik welaikarek mekehasik" or basic guidelines to live together in one family, one family name / clan, one honai (home), one tribe, one ancestor, one language, one history / origins, and so on "(When Looking Balim Life - it 7 - Hisage, Julian Joli, 2005). That is why they had to cut his finger if the family had died.

According to other information we collect, that the cutting finger is generally done by the mother. But do not close the possibility of cutting the finger by family members of the parent male or female. Cutting finger can also be interpreted as an attempt to prevent the 'recurrence' doom that has claimed the lives of someone in the grieving families.

A mother from Moni (a tribe in the area Paniai) we met explained that her little finger bitten by his mother when he was born. It had to be done by the mother for some children who were born before always died. With the right pinkie finger decided to have just the child she gave birth, the mother hopes that what happened to the children had not happened to the baby. This sounds very eksrim, but in fact this is so, Moni home mom we met have given many grandchildren and great-grandson to his mother.

Cutting finger done in various ways. There was a cut finger by using sharp instruments like knives, machetes or axes. Another way is to tie the finger with a rope for some time until the network becomes bound to die and then cut.

But now the culture of 'cut the finger' has now been abandoned. We rarely meet someone who did a few decades. Which we can still find today are those who never do tempo first. This is caused by the influence of religion who has signed up to a remote area in Papua.

source : many source

Ngaben is that cremation ceremony in Bali, especially by the Hindus, where Hindus are the majority religion in this Pura Thousand Islands. In the Panca Yadnya, the ceremony is included in Yadnya Pitra, the ceremony dedicated to the spirit lelulur. Ngaben ritual meaning in essence is to restore the spirit of ancestors (the dead) into place. A man has Pedanda said Bayu, Word, Idep, and after death Bayu, Word, Idep was returned to Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva.

Ngaben ceremony is usually conducted by family relatives of the deceased, as a manifestation of a child respect for parents. In this ceremony once the funds typically spend 15 million until 20 million rupiah. The ceremony is usually performed by festive, no sobs, because in Bali there is a belief that we should not weep for those who have died because it could hinder the journey toward the place of the spirits.

Day of Ngaben determined by finding the good day is usually determined by Pedanda. A few days before the ceremony held Ngaben families will be assisted by the community to make "Bade and Ox" a very stately wooden, colored paper and other materials. "Bade and Ox" This is where the body which will be implemented Ngaben.

In the morning when the ceremony is held, the family and relatives and the community will come together to prepare the ceremony. The bodies will be cleaned or commonly called "Nyiramin" by society and family, "Nyiramin" is led by people who considered the oldest in the community. After that the bodies will put on traditional Balinese dress like a man who was still alive. Before the summit carried out, the whole family will pay their respects and give prayer diupacarai spirits may obtain a good place. Once everything is ready, then the body will be placed in "Bade" for the gang carried to the cemetery where Ngaben ceremony, accompanied by a "gamelan", "chant the sacred", and followed all the families and communities, in front of "Bade" there is a white cloth significant long as the spirit pacer to where it came from. At each junction or intersection so "Bade" is played 3 times. Arriving at the cemetery, Ngaben ceremony performed by placing the body in "The Cow" which has been prepared starting with the other ceremonies and prayers of Ida Pedanda spell, then "The Cow" burned to the Ashes. Ash is then discharged into the sea or river is considered sacred.

After this ceremony, families can still pray for ancestors of the holy places and temples respectively. This can lead to family ties in Bali is very strong, because they always remember and respect lelulur and also their parents. There is a belief that the spirits of our ancestors going back reincarnated in the family circle again, so is usually a grandchild is the reincarnation of his parents.