The traditional home of Wamena in Papua namely Honai. To find out how the shape Houses Honai, in Jayawijaya Wamena, Papua. Well, to get to Wamena, you can depart from Jakarta by plane to
Jayapura. The journey from Jakarta to Jayapura for about 7 hours after the transit in Makassar. After arriving in Jayapura, the journey continues back toward the area of Wamena in Jayawijaya district using small aircraft or Twin Otter. Arriving in Wamena, you can find in the lush countryside Houses Honai Wamena.
When visiting a village in Wamena, you can see some fruit Honai. The shape and size of each Honai that look the same. From ground level, achieving high Honai home about 2 and a half meters. Home made circular shape and has only one door into its own characteristics of Honai. Building this house made of wood and its roof made of thatch which assembled in such a way that it looked multilevel /.
In Wamena, there are several types of houses like Honai Honai specifically targeted for men and for women Honai called Ebei. Usually, in the village of Wamena, Wamena in the township of Ebei relatively more when compared with the number Honai for men. That said, for men of Papua, has more than one wife is a normality. For them, the number of wives symbolize the triumph of man in Papua. To prove the triumph of that, they specifically make a fruit Ebei to one wife only. If you have more than one wife, then the number of Ebei-even more than one.
Inside the house Honai or Ebei, not seen any furniture. Honai indeed become a residence for people in the township of Wamena. But for a bed, they only use dry grass as a mat. Alas it will be replaced with new grass taken from the field or garden, if you have to look dirty. In the Honai also no chairs or tables, they make the floor of the house that terbuah from the soil as a cushion.
Inside the house Honai also no electric lights. For lighting, they make fire by digging the soil in the bottom floor of the house to be a furnace. Because Honai has no windows and illumination only from the furnace fire, the atmosphere in the house will feel increasingly dark when night falls.
When compared with the traditional house form in other areas, the house looks very simple Hanoi