Papua Mothers Join Successful PON 2020

Papua Mothers Join Successful PON 2020

Through weaving and being able to make traditional Papuan Noken bags by Mama Mama Papua now indirectly has helped and played a role in elevating the arts and culture that contain local wisdom values ​​of Papuan culture.
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Woven and woven leather bag called Noken which has been recognized as one of the world's cultural heritage by UNESCO, so it needs to be preserved and developed. Noken is a traditional Papuan bag made of bark or tree fibers formed by a weaving or knitting system.
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Noken craftsmen have now grown and mushroomed in Mimika, it is hoped that in the future it will be able to be a source of economic income for Mama Mama Papua to sustain the economic life of the family and as a souvenir of Papua needs to be protected in order to have patents of cultural arts which are ancestral heritage.
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The head of the Papua Province's Office for Women's Empowerment, Child Protection and Family Planning, Anike Rawar, said that she had already voiced 29 cities and districts to prepare noken. The role of citizens is needed because noken is made without the aid of machines.
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"PON (National Sports Week), we need a lot of noken for Papuan women, who knit noken by hand without using sophisticated tools can knit as much noken as possible with the Papuan XX PON writing," said Anike, Wednesday (1/15/2020) .
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"Prepare as much as possible, we will buy later. Because later on, the noken contains coffee, chocolate and sago. This is the processed product of our Papuan mothers, "he added.
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Anike also hopes that Papuan women can manage their earth products well so that they can be utilized to support the upcoming 2020 National Sports Week (PON). "Those who can still do gardening will later be bought by the event organizer who handles food," he concluded.
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This is in line with the expectations of the Female Figure and Church Figure, Betty K Nawipa. Betty hopes that Noken produced by Mama Mama Papua can be used as a souvenir or souvenir for anyone who comes to Timika.
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"Noken from the woven products of Mama Mama Papua which contains local cultural values ​​that reflect the culture originating from Mimika and Papua in general can be inherent in the noken which is able to create economic opportunities for Mama mama who can sulk noken at any time in filling her duties as a housewife , "Explained Betty.