n support of the communities of Asmat regency the Asmat Indonesia Volunteer Foundation hosted a fundraising charity high tea event titled “Love for Asmat – Meniti Hari Menata Mimpi” the event coincided with Valentine's Day to invite attendees to share their love with the oft-overlooked communities in Asmat previously known as Agats Volunteer Community (Ragats) supports the Asmat people in becoming a more independent and prosperous community The commitment is realized through ongoing programs in various fields social and community empowerment and procurement of facilities and infrastructure The event featured a photo exhibition along with a sharing session from people closely linked to the Asmat community attendees also enjoyed performances of Asmat songs by local youths Alja and Desy Boban Alja received a scholarship from Ragats to continue his studies at SMA Cor Jesu in Malang while Desy is a student at the Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB) who hails from the village of Atsj in Asmat Papuan students from Sekolah Anak Indonesia also performed an energetic Asmat dance for guests The Love for Asmat – Meniti Hari Menata Mimpi event also held an auction of art objects such as traditional wood carvings and batik cloths patterned after the carvings All proceeds from the auction will be used to improve the quality of education With a long journey to realize a prosperous and independent Asmat community the Asmat Indonesia Volunteer Foundation aims to beseech Indonesians to come together and create a more equitable life for Asmat Quickly share this news with your network—keep everyone informed with just a single click Customize your reading experience by adjusting the text size to small or large—find what’s most comfortable for you Cari English ‘Wow Cescu Ipits’ Still Devote Monumental Value to Woodcarving TEKS › English›‘Wow Cescu Ipits’ Still Devote.. Iklan ‘Wow Cescu Ipits’ Still Devote Monumental Value to Woodcarving Apart from the few problems It shows the close relationship between the Asmats and the nature Audio Berita By DIONISIUS REYNALDO TRIWIBOWO SUCIPTO · 8 minutes read TEKS Kompas/Totok WijayantoAsmat families rest in their houses The Asmat people are known for their wood carving skills head of the Asmat Cultural Museum in Agats When asked about what had caused the change in the scale of carving The Asmat people are now used to eating instant food who has been in charge of the museum since 1974 showed several small objects among some 700 woodcarvings and sculptures in the museum The piece was carved out of a mangrove trunk It depicted human figures propping each other to the top end > A Devoted Asmat Woodcarver > Arfak Parotia Attracts Visitors to Papuan Highlands but they remain as majestic and monumental for the Asmats as they used to Erik said the sculptures were used by the Asmat community in traditional ceremonies as a means of remembering their ancestors The carved human figures represent influential village elders who have passed away Only those revered and respected in the village are immortalized through the mbis the change in the size was also to accommodate requests from buyers or collectors Stacks of sculptures from the Asmat Cultural Festival are on display in the Asmat Cultural Museum in Agats One of the reasons for the popularity of smaller art pieces is that they are easy and inexpensive to ship outside Asmat Interactions between art collectors and Asmat woodcarvers have existed since 1981 when the Asmat Cultural Festival was first held This annual event exhibits the best pieces of Asmat woodworking Domestic and foreign art collectors come to buy them The event has also proven to be a promotional occasion for local woodcarvers with some given the opportunity to exhibit in the United States and Germany (Kompas The sculptures that do not pass curation will end up on the street for sale Some buyers order sculptures directly from the carvers with specified designs and characteristics > Equal Life à la Korowai Society > Hoeing Sago in the hinterland of Boven Digoel The interactions with art collectors and buyers have slowly and surely prompted the wow cescu ipits as the Asmat woodcarvers are locally known chiseling and cutting out the motifs their forebears have passed down Some pieces now feature images that were not previously found in the tradition As an occasion to sell and exhibit their best work the annual festival has indeed helped the promotion of Asmat wood carvings to the world The local government has also given its support with several administration offices urged to set aside funds to join the action at the festival whose church is decorated with a number Asmat carvings said Asmat wood carvings appeared to be increasing in commercial value the carvers could sell their work at the best prices in the festival some of the carvers faced obstacles in the marketing A visitor observes a collection of sculptures and woodcarvings at the Asmat Cultural Museum in Agats marketing here is a bit difficult," Aloysius said He said Asmat was home to many skillful carvers as shown by the carvings that passed the curation during a festival at least 200 carvings passed the curation to be displayed and auctioned prevented all the work from being purchased by buyers outside Among the problems is that Asmat is difficult to reach the administrative center of Asmat regency visitors need to take a flight to Ewer Airport before embarking on a speed boat for about an hour’s journey > From Logging to Cultivating Cajuput Trees > Tracing the Japan-US Battle in Biak The art of wood carving has become part of the Asmat tribe’s life carving is not only a means of creating a work of art but a way of communicating and expressing themselves a wood carving documents significant events from daily life manifested in the vividly meaningful and symbolic engraved shapes and motifs Wood carving is also part of the community’s spiritual life Another problem the Asmat wood carvers faced was that the number of buyers from outside the region and abroad was small once the festival was over Those visiting them would usually be provincial officials or representatives of the central government many carvings did not change hands because of the lack of orders and tourist visits Some complain that they have run out of money An improved condition may provide a solution the economic problems the Asmat people are facing The residents who lack education and marketable skills rely on government cash or food assistance packages which results in the wood carvings not being optimally distributed a number of carvers offer their carvings to the Agats bishop or Catholic priests who serve in the villages Murwito said a number of people visited him to offer their carvings He said some of the carvings were fine work and others seemed to have been made in a rush Some complain that they have run out of money,” he said A woodcarver shows his skills at carving in Er Village one of the Asmat carvers from Sawaerma district He said much needed to be done to improve the quality of life of the Asmat wood carvers We must do a lot to make use of what is related to our customary values including cooperating with the church and the government,” said the 68-year-old man Apart from the issue of the welfare of the wood carvers there are values that strengthen and develop the Asmat culture Rufus said he was not worried about the adaptation of shapes and motifs in Asmat woodcarvings it helped support the development of the local culture He believed that the motifs and patterns would always carry the value the Asmat Tribe had aspired to through their woodworking His confidence came from the fact that the carving items were passed down from generation to generation has always been the main theme of wood carving The carvers also depict flora and fauna in the Asmat wetlands almost every house is decorated with carvings A number of wooden shields up to two meters high are found in several houses They still make them for traditional or cultural activities the community had obtained many good things from the inclusion of new cultures and values human carvings were made to commemorate relatives who were killed during tribal wars The wood carvings were made by a clan member to remember the death of a loved one with the malicious intent of taking revenge but to remember those who have passed away After the intervention of the church and government in the 1950s the aggressive connotation of the motifs slowly faded The new values that the Asmat people have adopted Strong bonds of brotherhood used to be restricted to within a village community which might spark conflicts with those from other villages Inter-village relationships have now been established through joint activities These values have seeped into the art of Asmat carving today as the basic capital to build unity," Rufus said Stacks of carved decorative shields are on display in the Asmat Cultural Museum in Agats Erik’s concerns may be used as a foothold for the welfare improvement of the local people but the wood carving remains as majestic and monumental for the Asmats and it must continue to survive and be sustained," he said This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page brown river with thick virgin mangroves on its banks a motorboat arrives at its destination -- an isolated region that brings on an otherworldly feeling of distance The boat could barely carry five people on its short rocking journey through Indonesia's Asmat Regency in the easternmost province of Papua an area that occupies most of the western half of New Guinea and is considered to be the country's least developed region But within Asmat exists an even more remote area called Agats that sits elevated on poles above marshlands were built 1.5 meters above the wetlands with roads 4 meters wide Most of the town's roads were once made of wood earning Agats the name of "the town of a thousand boards." Before the arrival of the electric motorbikes I walked from home to office and back every day," Asmat Regent Elisa Kambu recalled of his first years of assignment living in the regency The battery-powered "whine" of the motorbikes is distinctive but not intrusive the use of gasoline-powered vehicles is limited to the military and ambulances because of the risk of accidents and electric motorbikes have become the means of transportation for many banning the import of fuel-powered motorcycles says although electric motorbikes began arriving in the town in 2006 they became much more prevalent from around 2010 "From around (2010) Agats saw more development of concrete roads that were wider," Manili 5,050 electric motorbikes were registered in the regency with 80 percent of them in Agats Some households own two or three motorbikes and there is a 30 to 40 percent increase in the number of the vehicles each year "This is the only regency capital in Indonesia where electric motorbikes have gained such popularity," Manili said From one end to the other is only about 5 kilometers the battery-powered versions only reach maximum speeds of about 20 to 30 kilometers per hour and are much less prone to accidents -- a big reason why the government has pushed for their use When Indonesian President Joko Widodo came to Agats on an inspection tour following a measles outbreak and malnutrition crisis in 2018 he rode one of the electric motorbikes himself Most of the motorbikes used in Agats are made in China Indonesia's second-largest city in eastern Java Each motorbike costs between 12 million ($814) and 14 million rupiah not cheap for residents whose monthly minimum wage is around 3.5 million rupiah they are so popular now that some sellers have backorders Two- and three-passenger electric motorbikes come and go on daily errands in front of roadside vegetable stands Riding around from morning till late at night motorbike taxi driver Felix Ndiken has seized upon the job opportunity the vehicles have brought to the town as the only means of public transportation with his 12-year-old daughter Patrisia on his motorbike to take her to school the father of nine starts his busy day -- bringing students to schools housewives to markets and office workers to their workplaces He has made the electric motorbike his "tool of trade" for the past six years Ndiken moved to the regency from his hometown Merauke but he decided to try his luck in the motorbike taxi business on his employer's recommendation Concerned about the future of locals in Agats in September 2019 Ndiken established the "Papua Asmat Bike Taxi Association," gathering together about 50 people mostly uneducated and unemployed young Asmats in their 20s and 30s He wants them to become less dependent on government assistance the regency receives as one of the least developed in Indonesia The government has been building houses for them but Ndiken believes this can adversely affect peoples' desire to work and their independence but his income was cut in half due to the coronavirus pandemic many members have to pay 50,000 to 100,000 rupiah a day to rent one for work and the drop in income has been more serious for them "Job opportunities for the locals keep declining -- snatched up by migrants," Ndiken said His goal is for the association to own more electric motorbikes and rent them to members for a small fee But he cautions the youth who he views as apathetic to "be players the development of this region of Indonesia It was only around the end of 2015 that electricity became available 24 hours a day in the main areas of Agats Agats is still considered a "frontier." Economically there are structural advantages for migrants from Java and Sulawesi that are unavailable to Papuans with the locals often looked down upon by other Indonesians Ndiken considers electric bikes to be a pathway to prosperity like a 32-year-old man Ndiken introduces who recently passed the civil service exam while working as a motorbike taxi driver and studying at university Another of his members is a woman who combines her role as a mother with her work on the motorbike "This is for the independence of Papuan people," he said To have the latest news and stories delivered to your inbox Simply enter your email address below and an email will be sent through which to complete your subscription Please check your inbox for a confirmation email Thank you for reaching out to us.We will get back to you as soon as possible Indonesia -- The three-year-old skeleton wrapped in skin should otherwise have been a little girl fighting for her life in a remote part of the jungle I have seen plenty of extreme poverty in my seven years as a journalist in Indonesia The trip that took me to her started out in the usual whirlwind fashion Six hours after covering the US secretary of defense’s visit to Indonesia in the lavish halls of the presidential palace in Jakarta I was on a seven-hour overnight flight to Papua with colleagues from text and photo We were headed to cover one of the most haunting stories any of us had yet experienced and we were nervous because it was already saturated with firsts For the first time we were allowed to travel deep into Papua to a remote region that normally has been off limits to Western journalists like us When President Joko Widodo came to power in 2014 he adopted a more liberal approach in an effort to attract more foreign investment and ordered that access to Papua be allowed for Western news outlets It took a while for the new approach to trickle down on the ground But eventually it did -- when news began to spread in recent months that a measles outbreak in one of the most remote corners of Papua had killed dozens of children the army invited us to go along with them to the area We would become some of the first Western journalists to see the place in decades and the army would get coverage of what it was doing to help the local population The trip offered another bonus -- usually Western journalists aren’t allowed anywhere near military installations So much so that I can’t even go to the military airport to shoot the arrival of hostages freed in the Philippines or the return of civilians’ bodies arriving from a disaster zone actually flying in one of their helicopters It's on the second largest island in the world -- New Guinea -- sitting just above the northern coast of Australia New Guinea was split in half: the eastern part belonged to the Germans and then the British and Australians and the western side was under Dutch rule but the eastern side gained independence and became Papua New Guinea while the Dutch side was taken over by Indonesia decades ago and became Papua province Papuans are distinctly different from other Indonesians both culturally and in their genetic makeup sharing more with Melanesians who are spread out across islands in the Pacific Many West Papuans today consider themselves an occupied people (part of the reason it was closed to Western reporters for so long) There is a heavy Indonesian military presence as a low-level separatist insurgency burns on an island that is rich in natural resources but has a population so poor that some are actually starving to death Our night flight from Jakarta landed in Timika We then hopped onto a seatless Cessna 208 Caravan prop plane most of the stories that we had covered in Papua had been crashes of planes just like this small seatless little birds of metal gliding over some of the world’s densest jungle cover When we got on and saw that the plane had only one pilot we exchanged glances and smiled (we were all thinking the same thing) “Let’s just hope we don’t become the story,” we said and settled in for the ride any fear we may have had was far outweighed by excitement there are very few places where one can go and be “the first.” This was one of them -- we’d be among the first Westerns to see this corner of the globe in decades The plane glided over dense tropical jungle which is one of Indonesia's last untouched forests (deforestation in Indonesia is the most rampant in the world) The thick network of large rivers below us served both as water supply for its thriving wilderness but also as the only means of connection between villages in the remote region The pilot flew low for us so that we could get good aerial shots of the place and after about an hour we landed in Agats - the tiny capital of Asmat district the epicenter of the measles outbreak where the deaths of dozens of toddlers was causing untold grief for their parents “My personal last frontier,” I thought as I got off the plane and took a look around I’ve finally made it to the heart of Papua!” To call Asmat extremely isolated is a bit of an understatement The “airport” consisted of a strip of concrete and a shack the main way of getting around from village to village on ground so swampy that everything is on stilts -- from shacks to paths Even though it’s only about 100 miles (160 kilometres) away from Timika -- the gateway to one of the world's biggest mines operated by US-based Freeport -- to get to Asmat one has to use either a small chartered plane (which would cost $2,000-3,000 to book) fly a commercial plane which doesn’t operate daily or travel by boat which would take about 10 hours Not many people can afford this kind of travel and so the outside world often doesn't know what’s going on here We headed to the hospital as soon as we landed It is the sole major medical facility for the entire Asmat district and is supposed to service nearly 130,000 people living in dozens of tiny villages along the river (A few tiny clinics in some villages are barely worthy of the name staffed by overwhelmed nurses and no doctors) One young girl was lying on the ground in an exterior hallway Her legs were thinner that the stand for an IV that was keeping her alive A few metres from her head someone had parked a motorbike “There shouldn’t be a motorbike parked next to her head.” so we had to move so many children to the church," we were told So after the hospital we went to the church It was quickly becoming apparent that the measles outbreak wasn’t the only story The underlying story here was malnourishment These people are so poor that some are literally starving to death A malnourished child will succumb to measles more easily than a well-fed one are unlucky in that they are caught in between two worlds They are descendants of people who used to live in the jungle They now live in “villages” -- collections of feeble bamboo huts on stilts on the banks of the river Now most of their food consists of instant noodles that are brought in by boat to little “convenience stores” called “warung.” The only problem is that there are hardly any jobs It’s hard to buy food when you have no money That reality came screaming out to us in a room by the hospital's entrance where a father and mother stared down at a skeleton tightly wrapped in human skin In my seven years working as a journalist in Indonesia I have seen extreme poverty like this before But never had I seen children in such condition It was a very physical reaction -- I just wanted to throw up I suppose it would have been even worse if I had been a parent In moments like this -- when I witness something truly terrible -- my camera becomes my shield so that I can do my job and shoot the scene I shot that skeleton wrapped in skin that was supposed to be a three-year-old girl Lots of colleagues from other news organizations later told me that that particular image is what prompted them to follow in our footsteps and report on the story as well Sending the harrowing footage took more than 14 hours with our satellite device From 4:00 pm till seven the next morning I stared at my laptop while it did its best to upload my video Something that in normal conditions would've taken less than 20 minutes it was time to go back out and shoot some more We spent the next day on tiny speedboats racing down the rivers following the Indonesian military as it visited a remote village on stilts but it will be a trip that I will remember for a long time Flying out marked another first -- we flew out aboard a chopper of the military that wouldn’t allow us anywhere near its installations for years but her battle with death was nowhere near being over It would soften a bit that image of her seared in my memory Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a leading global news agency providing fast comprehensive and verified coverage of the events shaping our world and of the issues affecting our daily lives Drawing from an unparalleled news gathering network across 151 countries AFP is also a world leader in digital verification With 2,400 staff representing 100 different nationalities with a unique quality of multimedia storytelling spanning video Twin crises of measles and malnutrition have recently afflicted Indonesia’s easternmost province inciting foreign and media scrutiny as well as internal review from the Indonesian government Papua is an impoverished but mineral-rich province with a history of separatist struggle which has been quashed for decades by the Indonesian military the nation’s health ministry declared both crises to be under control but 72 people have already died in Asmat regency finance minister Sri Mulyani said that special autonomy funding for the province would be reevaluated and West Papua were authorized to receive twenty years of special funding from the national budget But Mulyani said the public health issues showed that the money was not being used well because throughout this time the special autonomy funds have been disbursed as a block grant to the provincial government — even though special autonomy has specific purposes,” she said last week Measles is preventable with a vaccine, and is actually covered by Indonesia’s national vaccination program for children. So the afflicted children in Asmat constitute an oversight. About 650 children there still have measles and at least 223 suffer from malnutrition according to the health ministry website. Papua has long lagged behind Indonesia on nearly every public health valence with the country’s lowest life expectancy and highest infant Social issues in Papua are doubly hard to address because of constrained press freedom there was detained by the military and local immigration after she tweeted photos of the food aid being delivered to malnourished children: biscuits The military claimed the tweets were inaccurate and after being subjected to two days of questioning Henschke and her team decided to return to Jakarta Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced when he came to office that journalists should feel free to travel to and report from Papua the likelihood of harassment and surveillance like the Henschke incident remain high “The current system pressures journalists to limit reporting on Papua, and signals to the military and police that journalists can be interfered with,” wrote Andreas Harsono “President Jokowi should insist on the implementation of his decision to end restrictions on access to Papua He should also prohibit the security forces from arresting journalists for doing their jobs the government could simply have responded to Henschke with a clarifying tweet or statement as opposed to detaining and questioning her.’’ The finance minister’s statement indicates publicity from the widely declaimed crises may have potential to harness public opinion to effect changes in Papua “Of course” these events will bring the social problems in Papua to greater light Public pressure can work to impact government policy “but it should be bigger and longer than what it currently is.” He mentioned a 2005 malnutrition crisis in Yahukimo Papua that received a degree of public attention at least 14 regencies still have similar problems a sometime Papuan activist who works as a nurse in Jakarta “This is not going to bring any social changes to Papua.” Thus if any improvements to social services are made going forward they will have to accommodate such a highly charged political climate Por un futuro en el que los humanos vivan en armonía con la naturaleza WWF® and ©1986 Panda Symbol are owned by WWF You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience Please press and hold the button until it turns completely green If you believe this is an error, please contact our support team 147.45.197.102 : 603dbf4d-330e-4449-b184-8a0fb546 More than 8,000 miles away from Minnesota live the Asmat a semi-nomadic people who inhabit the dense coastal rainforest of West Papua Asmat art and artifacts – including shields spears and masks – that the Crosiers collected in the last half century have found a new home at the University of St who have been based in Minnesota since 1910 were among the first outsiders to enter the isolated Asmat region and have worked there since 1958 sculptures and artifacts to preserve them from extinction They founded the American Museum of Asmat Art donated the museum’s entire collection to St who happen to call as many continents home Thomas to see how our community is incorporating the new collection of Asmat art into its educational efforts Our visitors were Crosier Master General Father Glen Lewandowski who serves in Rome; Father Virgil Petermeier who serves at the Crosier priory in Onamia All three appreciate the value of fostering awareness of Asmat culture because they have spent many years living in the Asmat region and advocating on behalf of the 70,000 Asmat people Thomas contains carved and painted shields as well as large fiber masks adorned with feathers harpoons and daggers made and used by the Asmat Works by neighboring groups such as the Dani are included in the collection to demonstrate cultural diversity in Papua The Crosiers’ visit started at Brady Educational Center where graduate students in the Art History Department research design and install exhibitions for the atrium displaycases Last year graduate students Jenny Maki and Barbara Manthey along with volunteer intern Maureen Ragalie produced a series of displays about Crosier history and Asmat drumming While each student was responsible for specific cases Manthey and Ragalie consulted with each other to ensure the exhibition flowed logically Elizabeth Henderson and Manthey are working on new installations in Brady Educational Center that will exploreconnoisseurship (how to recognize an individual or regional style) and the relationship that collectors have with the art that they acquire and the people who make it Connoisseurship and collecting are particularly timely topics because the Asmat museum received a large number of high-quality works from two donors last summer Donna and Cargill MacMillan donated many artworks from the Pacific Accompanying many of the carvings in the MacMillan donation was information about the artists While it may seem logical for such information to be included frequently when non-Western art is purchased the artist’s name is not recorded; having this information allows us to recognize an individual artist’s style and quality Bishop Alphonse Sowada donated several pieces from his collection to the Asmat museum The open-work carvings reflect Asmat interpretation of core concepts of the Catholic faith Sowada had served in Agats during a time when the Indonesian government discouraged Asmat art production He led the effort to encourage carvers to continue sculptural production and through his advocacy was able to convince authorities to allow the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress to be built in Agats Sowada emphasized the need to document works thoroughly Our work continues with Sowada to get as much information about the imagery meaning and carving techniques as possible All of the newly donated pieces from the MacMillans and Sowada will help St Thomas students learn about collections care as well as Asmat culture specifically Some will be displayed in the Brady Educational Center cases or the other Asmat museum exhibition venues in the John R O’Shaughnessy Educational Center and O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center There also will be gallery space for the Asmat art in the new Anderson Student Center Before any of the new donations or pieces from the permanent collection are displayed they pass through the Asmat museum lab located in one of our storage facilities Petermeier and Greiwe included a stop to the lab on their visit They were able to see objects that art history graduate student Vada Komistra was examining and cleaning Asmat artists do not use any binder to attach pigment; instead After several years the paint can become very fragile and cleaning small bits of dust and cobwebs and other minute debris is challenging Komistra and the other graduate students are cleaning the MacMillan and Sowada donations as well as 70 objects that will appear in an upcoming exhibition “Time and Tide: The Changing Art of the Asmat of New Guinea” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts The UST Geography Department also is helping with the MIA exhibition As quality maps of the Asmat region are hard to come by Rominski’s work caught the attention of Molly Huber Oceanic and Native American Art at the MIA Huber was able to work with Rominski to tailor the map to suit the MIA’s exhibition needs and for the “Time and Tide” exhibition catalog Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Obituary ofMost Reverend Alphonse August Sowada OSC1933-2014Most Reverend Alphonse August Sowada He attended District #52 (rural Elmdale) grade school and Crosier Seminary High School He received his seminary formation at the Crosier House of Studies in Fort Wayne Indiana.Bishop Sowada made his profession of vows in the Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross on August 28 1953.He was ordained to the priesthood at Fort Wayne Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend.Following his ordination he received a Masters Degree in cultural anthropology from the Catholic University of America in 1961 1961.He served as pastor of the parish in Sawa-Erma from 1962-1965 and pastor in Agats from 1965-1969 He was the regional superior for the Crosiers in Agats when he was appointed bishop Bishop Sowada was appointed the first Bishop of Agats and was consecrated bishop of Agats on November 23 The reception of the body of Bishop Sowada will be at 3:00 pm on Thursday Cloud.A wake will begin at this time and continue until 8:00 pm.There will be a Vigil Service at 7:00 pm. presiding.The wake will continue on Friday morning at 9:00 am until the time of the funeral Mass.The Mass of Christian Burial will be on Friday at 11:00 am at the Cathedral of Saint Mary Bishop of Saint Cloud presiding.The homilist will be Bishop John Kinney Private burial will be at the Crosier Priory Cemetery Bishop Sowada is survived by his brothers and sisters Montana and several nephews and nieces.He was preceded in death by his parents Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Share via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe It was the stuff of nightmares – headhunter warriors so fierce that when Captain James Cook encountered them in 1770, he turned tail and fled. 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Read MoreSophisticated TravellerLatest In TravelFetching latest articles A strong magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit 73 km (46 mi) away from Agats, South Papua,  Indonesia 2025 at 4.53 pm local time (Asia/Jayapura GMT +9) The quake had a shallow depth of 35 km (22 mi) and was felt by many near the epicenter The shallow depth of the quake caused it to be felt more strongly near the epicenter than a deeper quake of similar magnitude would A strong magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit 191 km (119 mi) away from Agats, South Papua,  Indonesia 2025 at 10.01 pm local time (Asia/Jayapura GMT +9) The quake had a very shallow depth of 13 km (8 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so) Agats has had 3 quakes of magnitude 5.0 or above To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum “AGATS2 (Insecure)” sees Juice WRLD and Nicki Minaj collaborate for the lead single to Juice WRLD’s The Party Never Ends. The track is labeled as the follow-up to Juice’s 2017 hit “All Girls Are the Same.” On October 19, 2024, the song’s existence was revealed by one of Juice’s managers, unnecessaryballing. On November 13, 2024, Nicki announced that she was releasing new music that Friday unnecessaryballing would repost her announcement to his Instagram stories A day later, Nicki revealed that the song was a collaboration with Juice WRLD and that Halsey provided backing vocals on the song Hours before the song’s release, a teaser of the song’s instrumental was shared to Juice WRLD’s social media pages +421ShareQ&AFind answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning Genius Answer1 contributorYes! “AGATS2 (Insecure)” marks the second officially-released collaboration between the two, following 2023’s “Money.” +10Animated Cover ArtworkGenius Answer1 contributor —via Instagram