Biak's Animism


They occasionally saw Warmambo Island still visible above sea level when they left the island. Just like the Bugis tribe's ability, they explored the ocean from the Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, Java, to the Malacca Peninsula. The native people of Biak Numfor still have an ancient culture related to animism and dynamism.

The Biak community still has an ancient culture that refers to local animist beliefs before the entry of the Gospel into Papua. T Biak still has an ancient culture that revolves around animist beliefs, even though these beliefs are more prominent through ritual ceremonies better known as wor. This treatment not only uses leaves & plant roots, but also uses the summoning of spirits using medicine people and the placement of statues of mon that have been entered by spirits.

In this Padwa village, old graves can still be found in the gaps in the coral cliffs on the edge of the beach, skulls on the edge of the cliff, or in wooden coffins that are still neatly arranged. Fredrik Menufandu, Supiori regent for the 2011-2014 term. Herman Asaribab, deputy chief of staff of the Indonesian Army.

JR Mansoben, LIPI academic from Cendrawasih University. Hans Wospakrik, lecturer at Bandung Institute of Technology. Marianette Octovina Wospakrik is a physics researcher at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, United States.

Frans Sisir, singer & participant in Asia's Got Talent 2019. Nitya Krishanda Maheswari, badminton player & daughter of Panus Korwa. It is not known for sure when Petrus Kafiar was born, but it is estimated that he was born around 1864 - 1873 with the nickname Noseni.

While living in the village of Maudori, Noseni followed the animist beliefs of the Biak tribe who believed in the spirits of ancestors who could communicate with the living through a statue of a mon / through an intermediary of a medicine man. The final stage in his funeral was a final burial on Bepondi Island, which is located several kilometers to the north. In this attack, Noseni, who was left alone in the village, was captured by the mambri & taken to Korido.

He & his wife Lidia were apparently very grateful for Noseni's arrival because they had long wanted a son. In the Keizer family home, Noseni lived with David & Lidia, and their daughter named Margareta. In cases like this, the Biak people in the past had a habit of calling on the names of their ancestors for help through this storm.

Unlike the Biak people, the Christian community believes that a person's life is in the hands of God & not because of the influence of evil spirits. Initially living with animist beliefs, he was taken to Mansinam Island to study in a Christian school & was baptized in 1887. When Zending needed workers to build a village for evangelist teachers in Amberbaken, David told Petrus to take the job.

David understood his adopted son's wishes &, with deliberation with the pastors, Petrus was then sent to study at a 2nd class Malay-language government school in Ternate for 1 year. The letter contained information about accepting students at the Depok seminary to be prepared to become evangelist teachers & was open to any ethnicity. Petrus Kafiar married a woman named Ida on 12 8 - 1898.

However, they didn't want to stay on Amban beach anymore because, according to them, the natural spirit they left after converting to Christianity was angry and sent a plague.

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