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Sikakap, along with Tuapeijat, is one of the only places in the Mentawai Islands where electricity and telecommunications are available. [8] There is a hospital and a church in the village, [9] [10] as well as a harbor [11] (the main transport hub in the Mentawai islands [12]) and a district police station. [13]
Mentawai Islanders Islanders in a photo by C.B. Niewenhuis. The Mentawai Islands have been administered as a regency within the West Sumatra (Sumatera Barat) province since 1999. The regency seat is Tua Pejat, on the island of Sipora. Padang, the capital of the province, lies on the Sumatran mainland opposite Siberut.
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The island is part of the Mentawai islands off the west coast of Sumatra. The structures are influenced by the Acehnese style, built on a much larger scale. They were formerly used as uma longhouses by the Sakuddei tribe before they were forced to abandon their traditional way of life through government intervention in the 1950s and 1960s ...
An Uma, the traditional communal house of the Mentawai A Mentawai woman, 2017 Man with drum in the Mentawai Islands.. The Mentawai live in the traditional dwelling called the Uma which is a longhouse and is made by weaving bamboo strips together to make walls and thatching the roofs with grass, the floor is raised on stilts and is made of wood planks.
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Siberut is the largest and northernmost of the Mentawai Islands, located 150 kilometres west of Sumatra in the Indian It covers an area of 3,838.25 km 2 including smaller offshore islands, and had a population of 35,091 at the 2010 Census [2] and 40,220 at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 41,899. [1]