Metawai Festival or Mentawai Charm Festival (Indonesian: Festival Pesona Mentawai) is a traditional festival/carnival held annually since 2016 at Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra in Indonesia.[1][2] The festival aims to promote national and international tourism to the Mentawai Islands Regency, arranged by the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and local regency administration.[3] The Mentawai people believe to have ancestry since 1500 BC.
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Metawai Festival or Mentawai Charm Festival (Indonesian: Festival Pesona Mentawai) is a traditional festival/carnival held annually since 2016 at Mentawai Islands...
The Mentawai Islands Regency is a regency of West Sumatra Province which consists of a chain of about a hundred islands and islets approximately 150 kilometres...
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Indonesia. It is on the west coast of the island of Sumatra and includes the Mentawai Islands off that coast. West Sumatra borders the Indian Ocean to the west...
Music Foundation, initiated a social movement named Save Mentawai in response to the 2010 Mentawai earthquake and tsunami. Angga also known as initiator...
house type of the Sakuddei people, on the island of Siberut, part of the Mentawai Islands some 130 kilometres (81 mi) to the west off the coast of Sumatra...
temple. It is the venue for the annual Bali Arts Festival, a month-long Balinese traditional arts festival since 1979. "Bali Art Center Denpasar". Denpasar...
including Ubud. In response to this, a writer's festival was created, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival to help revive tourism, the island's main economic...
preserve uniquely indigenous culture. Indigenous ethnic groups Batak, Nias, Mentawai, Asmat, Dani, Sumba, Dayak, Toraja and many others are still practising...
August 25, 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2015. "Managing the Mentawai Surfing Tourism Industry". Mentawai.org. July 11, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2015. Brohman...
speaking Li Niha Indonesia portal Islands portal List of islands of Indonesia Mentawai people Nias Expedition Omo sebua Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. Badan...
of Padang Pariaman in the north, east, and south, while it borders with Mentawai Strait in the west, making Pariaman a semi-enclave within Padang Pariaman...
Steele, Sys Malakian, Oporto, Watang, Aloha In Hell, Surfantasmas, and The Mentawais, among many others. His music has appeared in film and television, including...
die Seelen — Kunst und Kultur der Mentawai-Inseln (Indonesien) [Toys for the Souls: Art and Culture of the Mentawai (Indonesia)] (in German). Zürich:...
Padang is a common transit point for surfers travelling to Batu Islands and Mentawai Islands, and for tourists visiting the West Sumatran highlands. Padang...
which is popularly known as Sandsea. On the fourteenth day of the Hindu festival of Yadnya Kasada, the Tenggerese people of Probolinggo Regency, East Java...
December 2018, Djakarta Warehouse Project (DWP), the largest annual music festival of Electronic Dance Music in Asia, was held here, including a set by Canadian...
population. The Muslim population increases to 99.6% if it excludes the Mentawai Islands, where the majority of the non-Muslim (Protestant) West Sumatrans...
ISBN 978-90-6832-192-0. Krutak, Lars (2009). "The Kalinga Batok (Tattoo) Festival". The Vanishing Tattoo. Archived from the original on 6 April 2018. Retrieved...
Lake Maninjau Lake Singkarak Lake Toba Lumbini Natural Park Maimun Palace Mentawai Islands Regency Metro City Mursala Island Nias Pagaruyung Palace Penyengat...
Balugu. To reach this level of caste, one must be able to carry out big festivals by inviting thousands of people and slaughtering thousands of pigs for...
Lake Maninjau Lake Singkarak Lake Toba Lumbini Natural Park Maimun Palace Mentawai Islands Regency Metro City Mursala Island Nias Pagaruyung Palace Penyengat...
coincidentally when the indigenous Hawaiians were celebrating the Makahiki festival, which is the annual celebration of the harvest in honor of the god Lono...
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