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Don’t hopes found tattoo decorated the youth's body!

Together with effect of the outside world, the tradition tattoo or ti'ti began to be left in South Siberut.

If previously the person that tattoo is regarded as the symbol of the person who was healthy and strong in Mentawai, currently the view changed as the person who was left behind of the time.

In Siberut, that was the centre and the Mentawai cultural origin, still had several old generations in the countryside village that still used tato.

In southern part villages like in Sarereiket, Ugai, Matotonan, Madobak, Simatalu, Sakuddei, and Simalegi still could be encountered by the resident that used tattoo.

Whereas Siberut the northern part tattoo still was encountered in the old generation in the Simatalu Bai area, Lubaga, Tobbilak, Kulumen, Masaba, and Muntei.

However should not hope found tato decorated the youth's body.

Has been very rare because many that left the tradition tattoo!

Generally they who have interacted with two modern, as continuing education to the JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL and the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL that only were located in the capital of the sub district or to Padang reluctant in tattoo because it was considered was left behind of the time.

They said, was left by him the tradition tattoo this because it was considered the person that situated behind and generally the person that used tattoo usually in their everyday life did not use clothes or trousers as the cover of the body but used the thief.

"Used tattoo it was considered situated behind, moreover the person that tattoo usually did not use clothes and daily used the thief," said the public figure Simaatalu Bai, Ignantius Inep.