team conducted the Wildeman River survey, where they found the Yaqay-speaking villages of Kotub, Wanggate, Kogo, Rayam, and Wairu II. For the full results of the Wildeman River survey see Kriens and
Lebold 2010.
3 Survey area
3.1 Map of the survey area
Below is a map of the survey area.
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Villages
3.2 Survey locations
Table 2 lists villages that were visited during this survey; included is the language spoken in each village, the population, and the global positioning system GPS coordinates.
Table 2. Villages visited Village
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Sub- district
River Languages
Population GPS coordinates
South East
Yodom Edera
Lower Digul Yaqay
900 7
°15.190 139
°27.885 Isyaman
Edera Lower Digul
Central Asmat 575
7 °07.853
139 °22.072
Konebi Edera
Bamgi South Awyu
699 7
°01.403 139
°27.868 Yeloba
Edera Bamgi
South Awyu 261
7 °02.023
139 °27.634
Banamepe Edera
Lower Digul South Awyu
249 7
°17.107 139
°33.206 Yame
Edera Lower Digul
Edera Awyu 221
7 °05.323
139 °50.670
Amk Edera
Lower Digul Edera Awyu
323 7
°11.875 139
°58.026 Bhakti Waghai
Jair Lower Digul
Edera Awyu 264
6 °58.927
140 °06.503
Meto Jair
Kia Edera Awyu
449 6
°50.009 140
°09.291 Ujung Kia Mii
Jair Kia
Edera Awyu Jair Awyu 1,500
6 °41.246
140 °11.553
Subur Terek Jair
Lower Digul Jair Awyu Mandobo
350 6
°49.617 140
°17.148 Kaisah
Jair Lower Digul
Mandobo 279
7 °06.481
140 °07.285
Aiwat Jair
Lower Digul Mandobo
200 6
°47.366 140
°19.583 Table 3 lists other significant locations along the route of the survey team, along with GPS coordinates.
Table 3. Other significant locations on the survey trip route
Significant location GPS coordinates
South South
Mouth of Ia River 7
°08.494 139
°27.692 Mouth of Mati River
7 °11.655
139 °56.023
Mouth of Kia River 6
°52.619 140
°10.571 Asiki Korindo office
6 °38.859
140 °25.060
Bade airstrip 7
°10.557 139
°35.012
4 Observations
The Digul River is one of the main rivers in Merauke regency. The survey team started the trip from Bade, traveled downriver west on the lower Digul River, and then up the Bamgi River. After conducting survey
there, the team came back to Bade and continued traveling upstream east on the lower Digul River. The team made a side-trip up the Kia River tributary in Jair subdistrict and then continued up the Digul River, ending in
the village of Aiwat. This survey completed the remaining areas of Edera subdistrict, which had been partially surveyed on previous trips in the area. In Jair subdistrict, the survey team visited six villages out of nine in the
subdistrict.
Following is a general overview of the demographic information and non-linguistic observations the team made during the survey trip. This information will be useful in the future for SIL teams and others who wish to travel
to this region to visit, work, or live. Possible community development needs within this area can also be inferred from these observations.
The survey team collected the information through observations, through talking with and inquiring of local people in the villages visited, and through a short questionnaire made specifically for the village leaders. See
Appendix B for an English translation of the village leader questionnaire that was used during this survey. This questionnaire was utilized with the village leaders in each of the following villages:
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The village names in parenthesis are the indigeneous names that are used as alternates to the official name used by the government.
− The Bamgi River: Yeloba, Konebi. − The Lower Digul River: Yodom, Isyaman, Banamepe, Yame, and Amk.
− Jair subdistrict: Kaisah, Bhakti, Subur, Ujung Kia, Meto, and Aiwat.
4.1 Basic demographic information
