Sikerei is the ceremonial leader of the whole called punen in traditional life and customs of people living in the Mentawai Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra Province. He is a person who is called to preserve the indigenous Mentawai.
Because, not all residents in the Mentawai Islands, which in total amounted to 72 000 people were living according to customs Mentawai. Of that amount, only about 40 percent who still live in accordance with the traditions of the ancestors, which lived in the settlement with a number of families in a single tribe.
More than 90 percent of the Mentawai people have livelihoods as farmers and planters, and only about 5 percent as traders or employees, and most of them originated from the Minangkabau tribe.
The highest concentration of indigenous peoples in the territory of the Mentawai of Siberut Island. While the three other island regions, namely Sipora, North Pagai and South Pagai, relatively little is found traces of the Mentawai culture and customs that are still running, and this makes sikerei increasingly important role.
Sikerei also marked with a star-shaped tattoos on her body sibalubalu. That tattoo motive tattoos and oldest in the world.
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