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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.
Ever since then, the Mentawai Islands have been well on the radar of surf travellers around the world. At the West of Sumatra, the Mentawai Islands have the most consistent surf breaks in Indonesia making it one of the preferred choices for serious surfers. The tropical waters surrounding the islands offer year-round waves up to 15 ft (4.5 m).
Mentawai may refer to: Mentawai Islands, Indonesia Mentawai Strait; Mentawai people, ethnic group of Indonesia; Mentawai language, their Austronesian language
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]
Mentawai dark-throated oriole; 2010 Mentawai earthquake and tsunami; Mentawai Festival; Mentawai Islands; Mentawai langur; Mentawai long-tailed giant rat; Mentawai people; Mentawai rat; Mentawai scops owl; Mentawai Strait; Mentawi flying squirrel
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]
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.
Tuapeijat (also spelled Tuapejat or Tua Pejat) is a town within North Sipora District (Kecamatan Sipora Utara) in the Mentawai Islands Regency of West Sumatra province of Indonesia and it is the administrative seat (capital) of Mentawai Islands Regency. The population was 4,344 at the 2010 Census, and the 2015 estimate gave the population as 5,756.