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Nggem's Animism

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According to Pustaka Kembaren, the Kembaren clan's origins are from Pagaruyung in Minangkabau. After three days of walking, they reached the Silindung highlands and settled for two weeks in the interior. In the 10th century, Barus was attacked by Srivijaya. In 1834, this activity was joined by Henry Lyman and Samuel Munson from the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. The first German missionaries arrived in the valley around Lake Toba in 1861, and a Christianization mission was launched in 1881 by Dr. Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen. In 1890, the Dutch colonial government banned cannibalism in their area of ​​control. The translated text was printed in Latin script in Medan in 1893. According to him, until the 19th century, social interaction in the region was limited to relationships between individuals and kinship groups/villages. In the late 1920s, a nursing school provided nursing training to midwives there. The Batak people speak an Austronesian language, but it is u...
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Walak's Animism

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Most tribes in this province are part of the La Pago traditional territory, such as the Walak. The Walak are an ethnic group living in the central highlands of the Baliem Valley. This dance tells the story of the ancestors of the Papuan people, who are believed to have come from Yunnan, crossed Taiwan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and from the east to Ifala Island, then to Genyem. People from the same aluak are not necessarily related by blood. If a blood relationship can be determined from a single ancestor, it is called umbu.
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