Yuma Taru x Komunitas KAHE

KAHE community started from a facebook group called Sastra Nian Tana which was specifically conceived as a place to share works and knowledge about literation. As time goes by, some members of the group feel that it is not enough to meet and share through cyberspace. Therefore, on October 24, 2015, Eka Putra Nnggalu, Valentino Luis and Rizal Huku Lejap, took the time to meet. It was at this meeting that KAHE as a literary community was initiated. The name KAHE itself is inspired by the place where the three people first met, which is right under the statue of Moan Teka (a regional hero) who is dashing on a horse. KAHE in the Krowe tradition means a poetic neighing/scream containing pride in one's identity. Since then, the Nian Tana Literary group changed its name and form to the Nian Tana Literary KAHE Community.

Nian Tana's KAHE Sastra community then developed to be very productive in their activities. Nian Tana's KAHE Sastra Community held discussions and radio broadcasts at Sonia FM, Maumere. The activists are active in writing in various local and national media. KAHE Sastra Nian Tana community is also involved in cross-community work in Maumere and NTT in general. This little wriggling then attracts more and more young people to gather and share in the community. Several art activists from different disciplines such as music, photography, videography, and fine arts began to join. Due to the increasingly diverse membership, since the end of 2016, Nian Tana's literary identity which tends to exclude community activities limited to literature has been removed. The name of the KAHE Community has been agreed to be used since then.

Currently, KAHE Community is built as much as possible as a space for creation, appreciation, publication, and documentation of knowledge through the medium of art. As a non-profit organization, KAHE Community is active in artistic work in the fields of literature, theater, music, and fine arts. KAHE organizes various activities such as cultural discussions, radio broadcasts, various mentoring and art workshops, journal publications, public library management and festivals such as Maumerologia.
The activists of the KAHE Community place the arts as binoculars as well as a medium for expressing political arguments to respond to various anxieties and phenomena in society in

Maumere and to project them as far as possible into a wider constellation, namely the people of Indonesia and the world.

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Thousand Years of Migration

Thousands of miles away

Thousands of languages

Sprinkled on the thousands upon thousands of islands

From that moment

Separated by

Ocean, mountain

Embark on different journeys

by Salizan Takisvilainan (Taiwan’s Bunun poet)

The Austronesian language family is a language family mainly distributed on the islands. The language family has migrated for thousands of years. Due to the rupture of collective memory, it requires various research to draw the map of its migration. The deep silence of the remains in the archaeological pit, and the traces on the unearthed artefacts seem to communicate without speech, therefore to conduct relational and emotional connections with them one needs to draw virtual and solid lines.

This work intends to connect Taiwan with Flores through the linking of shells in the archaeological pit and the shell beads in the museums.

There are scant archives and records which documents the outlook and knowledge of the Austronesian language journey in Eastern Indonesia. The straightforward approach to look for guidance would be to consult the artefacts and relics which are still buried in archaeological sites. Remnants of prehistoric article buried deep in the earth, leftover from the Neolithic period, are dispersed in various places in Flores island. The initial research begun in Pain Haka, a burial ground in Tanjung Bunga sub-district, East Flores. Due to limitations, this research is meant to be the starting point mapping out the trace of Austronesian proliferation in the Flores area.

Structured within the framework of the imagination—or reimagining—the history of arrivals, meetings, exchanges, peoples that exist in the world, especially between Taiwan and Flores, this idea is at the same time one that emphasizes that there is always something that moves others as events of the time; it leaves a mark while at the same time as bringing together one society with another. Hopefully, the bond of affection will make the obscured connection in the past become solid linking.

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