Getting To Know The Pangkur Sago Welcoming Dance Performed At PON Papua

Pangkur Sagu Dance (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Pangkur Sagu dance was one of the dances performed when the Minister of Youth and Sports, Zainuddin Amali, came to review the implementation of the artistic gymnastics competition.

Demanding to be performed energetically, the dance turned out to be a dance devoted to welcoming guests to the Cendrawasih Earth.

"This is indeed a typical Papuan dance, not only from the province of Papua but also from West Papua", said the Committee from the Socio-Cultural Division of PON XX Papua, Dana, to Antara, Saturday.

Dana said Pangkur Sago is a dance that describes the activities of the Papuan people preparing to harvest agricultural products in the form of sago.

This dance also symbolically depicts the party rituals held by the Papuan people when making sago.

Cooperation, togetherness, and gratitude are the values to be displayed in this dance.

The dance was first started by the male dancers totaling six people who seemed to carry tools to buttress the sago tree.

Soon a group of female dancers with the same number joined in to make the sago water that had been obtained processed into sago.

The group of dancers looked very harmonious in dancing as if they were studying sago farming, which is the custom of the Papuan people.

This dance feels very local wisdom because the dancers are equipped with costumes that feel at one with nature.