Sawai tribe.

Sawai Tribe, is one of the tribes that were in Central Halmahera district of North Maluku province, in the district of North Vedas, who lived in the village Lelilef Woi Month, Sagea village, village Gemaf, Sawai Lelilef village, village of Kobe, village Sidanga, vedic village, village Fritu, Wale villages, villages and village Messa Dote. Sawai tribal population estimated at no more than 10,000 people.

Sawai tribal house is usually made of wooden planks and sago leaf thatch. Sawai tribal settlement is very simple, is somewhat remote, and it did not get the attention of the local government. Even tribal land area Sawai

threatened by large companies engaged in the mining of nickel, which has been pegged the thousands of hectares of land in the village Lelilef Woi Moon, Sagea and Gemaf village. Tree saws (Chainshaw) cut down the trees that had been planted by Sawai tribal communities over the years, such as coconut, nutmeg, and cloves, until bananas, cassava, and sweet potatoes. Bulldozers and trucks transporting dredge and red soil containing nickel.

For tribal society Sawai, the threat of waste from large companies also override tourist sites in the village of Lake Lagaelol Sagea. Brackish water lake that keep fish, crabs, and several other fish species that can be a source of sustenance of society if the tide is coming season, usually for three months.

The presence of large companies is very threatening Sawai tribal life. This needs to get the attention of local or central government. If this is allowed then Sawai tribe will lose a settlement, even loss of livelihood of forest products and seafood.

It is not known whether the Sawai tribal communities still have their native language, because the current rate Sawai communicate in Malay North Maluku, North Maluku which mana.bahasa Malay has become the language of instruction in almost all areas of North Maluku province. According to them, they have a former native language which they refer to as language Sawai, probably only live people who have elderly parents who are still mastering the language Sawai. While Malay North Maluku, estimated taken by people from the Sultanate of Ternate, which in the past had controlled their territory is.

Sawai tribes including rare in the world, and have local knowledge fagogoru as the embodiment of love, friendship, as well as the culture of shame and immoral. For that, they will over backwards trying not to violence in protest against the presence of a nickel mine, unless there was no longer any other way.

Sawai tribal communities largely embraced Christianity, and some are converts to Islam. Although formerly they were followers of traditional religions such as animism and dynamism, but since the arrival of missionaries from the Dutch, who introduced Christianity into public life Sawai tribe which basically followers of animism and dynamism, accept Christianity with good presence in their circles, fraction of they still retain their traditional religion. While Islam spread by the people of the Sultanate of Ternate.

Sawai tribal community is very friendly towards anyone they also received with open everyone who stopped by and stop in their village.

Almost the entire community Sawai tribe living as a farmer. Coconut and nutmeg into a mainstay of their livelihood. In addition, they also went to sea to catch fish in the waters of the village and village Lelilef Woi Month Kobe.
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