Visiting Kokas, Fak Fak
regency, West Papua, like visiting an old city. In this district
there are areas of ancient sites with a mystery that holds the magic
in it. Not only attractive, but also invite people to welcome its beauty.
Painting the cliff which
is the ancient site in Andamata Kokas, Kokas District, Fak-Fak, West
Papua. This painting is a relic of prehistoric times.
One of the famous ancient
site Kokasadalah painting on steep rocky cliffs. By the local
community, this steep rock cliff called Tapurarang. District wealth
Coke relics since prehistoric times can be found in Andamata, Fior,
Forir, Darembang, and Goras.
So, what is the
uniqueness of the painting is an image of human hands and animals on
the walls of the cliff? Despite centuries, paintings made with dyes
from natural materials is still clearly visible today. The red color
on the cliff paintings also resemble the color of human blood.
Therefore, local people often refer to painting as painting hand
stamp blood.
For local communities,
the location of this cliff painting is a sacred place. They believe
this painting is a form of the people who were condemned by the ghost
of a grandmother who turns into a demon or ghost kaborbor believed to
be the ruler of the oceans most frightening. My grandmother died
after the attack that sank the boat that he was riding.
Of all the passengers on
the boat, only grandmother has died. It is said that none of the
passengers on the boat were trying to help her grandmother to save
themselves. Feeling hurt, ghost grandmother who has turned into a
demon kaborbor condemn all boat passengers trying to escape over the
rocks. Due to the curse of all passengers and marine products taken
immediately turned into a cliff paintings.
In this cliff painting
you can see skeletons of human bones. This framework is believed to
be the ancestor or ancestors frame the coke. In ancient times people
here have a habit of putting the bodies of ancestors who died in the
rock cliffs, caves, headland or under large trees were considered
sacred.
Skull found in the cliffs
at Andamata, Kokas District, Fak-Fak, West Papua. This human skull is
the rest of the local community who do not habit jazad ancestors
buried but put it on the rock cliffs, caves, headland or under large
trees are special or sacred.
Keen to trace
prehistoric Kokas?
From the terminal Fakfak
you have to travel overland into coke out of town using public
transportation. Distance Fakfak-coke as far as 50 kilometers will be
completed in about 2 hours. You just spend Rp 25,000 per person, each
way. Arriving diKokas, still have to continue traveling by longboat
approximately 1 hour. If the water was high tide, you can go up to
the cliff and saw this painting up close. However, if the water
receded, the beauty of the cliff paintings can only be enjoyed from
the longboat.
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