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<i>Honai</i>

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Honai are very important to us,

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the people of Wamena, especially [br]in the Wamena valley.

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Because whenever we want to talk [br]about anything, according to the [br]

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culture of Wamena, it has to be [br]discussed in a honai.

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There are many types of honai.

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There's a honai for tribal celebrations [br]and for war preparation, then there's

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also Hakonaila, Ebeaila, Oma, Oo, [br]Siraila, Sawula.

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There is a variety of Honai.

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Outsiders consider them all the [br]same, but that's incorrect.

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Two different kinds of honai

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are the adat honai to prepare [br]for battle

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and a honai for all celebrations [br]of the tribe.

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It is said that it is sacred

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because we didn't eat anything [br]else a long time ago.

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We didn't eat tapioca.

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We ate humans.

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It was said that the honai was [br]sacred because we ate humans.

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And because it's sacred, women lived [br]in the Ewe Oma

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(the honai where women live)

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and men lived in the honai.

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If our plants are less fertile and [br]produce a low yield

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we need to go to the honai and [br]talk about how to fix it.

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<i>(conversation)</i>

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All the economic progress and [br]development has made us

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less and less aware of our honai [br]tradition.

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In the old days, our system of working [br]together in this Baliem Valley[br]

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was very strong.

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But now they give money instead [br]of working together.

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That wasn't the case in the past, but [br]people are too ready to give money now.

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I don't want to stay in a modern house.

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If we had an authentic honai with a [br]grass roof, that'd be better.

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It's much better living in a honai than [br]these modern houses.

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These modern houses, they are just like [br]children’s toys for me.

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If the honai was damaged, I would rather [br]build a new honai because

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I don’t like modern houses.

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Even if there was no wood or grass, I [br]would ask my husband to tell his friends

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to build a honai together.

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It’s not good if there are no honai and [br]only modern houses.

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If we have honai, it’s good. I don’t like [br]modern houses because they

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look like toys to me.

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Honai are important to me.

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As the son of the chieftain, and as a [br]practitioner of adat (indigenous ceremony)

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even though I live in a modern house, [br]or I'm a local official

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I will still return to live in the village.

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From 1970 to 1990, the government [br]implemented the "Healthy Houses" program

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which had limited uptake as it did not[br]fit with the communal way of living

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and the new design wasn't suitable [br]for the cold climate of Papua.

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Recently, the government has adopted [br]traditional and modern building methods

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for “Healthy Honai”

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allowing communities to maintain their [br]way of living in addition to providing

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appropriate weather protection.