Category: 2025 Awardee

Project Description In Yokiwa Village, Sentani (Papua), the clans Awoitauw, Fiobetauw, and Mimitauw sustain akhoykoy, a folklore tradition carrying ecological ethics, cosmological understandings, and teachings on land stewardship. Alyakha Art Center Foundation and Nafas Danau Sentani Arts Collective have worked with clan leaders and local youth to record Yokiwa’s soundscapes and oral narratives. These materials…