Metawai Festival or Mentawai Charm Festival ( id, Festival Pesona Mentawai) is a traditional festival/carnival held annually since 2016 at

Mentawai Islands Regency The Mentawai Islands Regency are a chain of about seventy islands and islets approximately off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. They cover 6,033.76 km2 and had a population of 76,173 at the 2010 Census and 87,623 at the 2020 Census. Sib ...

West Sumatra West Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Barat) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia. It is located on the west coast of the island of Sumatra and includes the Mentawai Islands off that coast. The province has an area of , with a population of 5, ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. The festival aims to promote national and international

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to the

, arranged by the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and local regency administration. The

Mentawai people Mentawai (also known as Mentawei and Mentawi) people are the native people of the Mentawai Islands (principally Siberut, Sipura, North Pagai and South Pagai) about 100 miles from West Sumatra province, Indonesia. They live a semi-nomadic hunter- ...

believe to have ancestry since 1500 BC.

Festivities

The festival showcases traditional wedding ceremonies, traditional clothing parade, traditional tattoo demonstrations, traditional boat making, traditional archery, tribal war dance, mass dance performance, traditional bow-hunting, traditional culinary, and other traditional Mentawai culture. Events such as

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are included. International surfers participate in the surfing competition.

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Festivities

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