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Sentani Lake Festival

Sentani Lake Festival is an annual tourism festival held around Lake Sentani. The festival is held since 2007 and has become an annual festival and included in the main tourism calendar. Sentani Lake Festival followed by many Dutch tourists and local visitors.

Sentani Lake Festival
Sentani Lake Festival held in mid-June of each year for five consecutive days.

Carnival Sentani Lake Festival followed by the whole community in the District and the City of Jayapura Jayapura. Of each community both from outside Papua and in Papua who took part in the performances of traditional cultural displays, traditional dances accompanied by folk songs.

This festival is a testament to the maintenance of unity and oneness among fellow tribe, race, religion. Sentani Lake Festival will be crowded with a variety of local cultural activities, or from outside who want perpartisipasi. Cultural exhibits to be displayed are the things the Land Tabi Cultural and ethnic Papuans, both historical objects, carvings, paintings, as well as cultural and historical literature as well as documentary film completed. Not only that this show will also be filled with traditional dances on the boat, Papua typical war dances, Ondoafi coronation ceremonies, and serving a variety of culinary Papua.

Sentani Lake Festival aims to introduce to the people of Papua nationally and internationally, so that it can be said to know the World Papua through Sentani Lake Festival.

Sentani Lake Festival has a high historical value not only attended by the Jayapura District, but many people from outside who came to witness this festival.


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