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The Mentawais people (around 30,000) live in the Pugai Islands located on the West coast of Sumatra main island. 

The islands -Siberut, Sipora, North Pugai and South Pugai- are generally hilly, with a few mangrove swamps and gray sandy beaches.
Dense tropical vegetation covers most of the interiors.

The Mantawais islanders have traditionally settled inland along riverbanks. Long locked in their own time and space, they were, until not long ago, isolated from the rest of the Indonesian archipelago.