I was watching 60 Minutes on the weekend and they had this segment about people in Papua. I'm not sure which part of Papua it was though... as in Irian Jaya (West Papua) or Papua New Guinea (East Papua). But it was really interesting. These 2 white guys (one of whom was a regular reporter on 60 Minutes) went into the jungle with some local guides. They went to the local guides village first and they were dressed up as you could probably imagine people from the stone age! They were a cannibalistic tribe. One of the men said that their brother told him that someone was a witch doctor and put a curse or something on the brother. So he decided to kill the witch doctor and ate him up. Apparently they eat everything except for their teeth and nails. When I saw it was like, "wow! somewhere in the depths of all these jungles (like the Amazon perhaps or relatively uncharted territories like Papua) there are people who still live like people back in time!"
None of these people have ever seen white people before and thought they were ghosts when they heard that there white people roaming. Imagine that compared to the bustling cities of Jakarta where they have definetely seen white people before and don't dress up as people from the stone age (unless theyre at a dress up party?)
2 comments:
hehe my mum's ethnic group the bataks use to be cannabals! :p thats before the missionaries came converting bataks into christians! ehehehe
remind me not to go over to your house. your mum might eat me. ;) jk
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