HM: Today is Saturday, April 17th, 2010. We are having a conversation
in Sepse. We would like to have this conversation so that we can send
it to England. Yes, so sir (elder) (now) you can speak, please say
your name and age. 
AA: Before I tell this story, I would like to give my name. My name is
Abner Ansek and I am 45 years old. So I will talk about our departure
from Samares to here. We left in 1971. We came here to start a village
which was called Yimdi. After we started it we built a school and a
church, but we did not use a zinc roof but only a thatched roof. HM:
You came here twice so where did you first build the houses? 
AA: We built the houses from here frontward. The head of the village,
Mr Renyaan, gave some zinc sheets but they were not enough. So elder
Yohanes said: "These zinc roofs are not enough so you just fit the zinc roofs
on the back part of the houses. But you put the leaf roof towards the
front part of the houses so that when we invite Mr Renyaan tomorrow,
he would say, "What happened to the front part of the houses?" So it
does not have an all-zinc roof but part of it has a leaf roof and part
of it has a zinc roof.  So we did what he told us to do. The head of
the village came, elder Yohanes said, "You should know the way we,
Papuans, put things, we would put (hide) the valuable things on that
part but show the bad ones on this part. There, the head of the
village saw the houses and gave us some building materials that we
could use to build the houses in Sepse. 
HM: So after you built the houses then you built the schools here and
after that the children could study well here? After we built the
houses, then the children began to study. They studied here until...,
there weren't any roads appearing like this yet. The Barito company
cut wood from this land and then built these roads and the roads are
good for the cars (down there) to move back and forth on them. In
those early days, it was very difficult (to get) from here to Sundei,
we really struggled. However, we really wanted to have schools in the
middle (of the village) here so we went downward to take stones,
bricks, zinc roof, metal wire, ten-ten (10cm X 10cm), logs (5cm X 10
cm), we took (them) from Sundei upward here. If (this happened to) any
body else, it would be impossible for them to bring the things from
Sundei upward here. However, in those brief period perhaps we were
very strong and that's why we could carry materials by hand from
Sundey to here. We really wanted to have a school and a church, those
were our wishes and all the schools and the churches which spread
around here were (finally) established.  Now that we have built the
village, the junior high shool is located landward and the children do
not have go to Bosnik (to study at the Junior High School in Bosnik)
but (if you see those kids) they are the ones who are studying there
(at the Junior High school). 
HM: So that was the story of Sepse village at the time it was first
established. The person who told the story was Elder Abner
Ansek. Elder Henoch Mofu was the one who came to record the story.