Roon Island, if interpreted in Indonesian, is the island of ironwood. A few years ago, according to the Roon community, this place was filled with ironwood trees, but along with the opening of villages and land and increasing economic needs, the number of ironwood trees on the island has decreased. Now Roon Island has become a district consisting of 7 villages, including Yende, Mena, Syabes, Indai, Niap, Sariay, and Menarbu. Local wisdom and church history remain a part of the Roon people's lives for generations, and these local wisdoms were featured in the Roon Island Festival in July 2019.

This is the second Roon Island Festival, where this time the location is centered on one of the coastal beaches of Roon Island, which was originally the location of a resort owned by one of the clans on Roon Island. This resort was promoted by one of the tour operators with Polish nationality, but is currently no longer utilized due to licensing and other reasons. With the support of the Head of Roon District, the community agreed to reopen this land as one of the lodging locations and become a tourist information center from Roon District.

With the opening of a new place, it also takes a lot of effort to prepare it. Starting from preparing houses from local materials, exotic stages that attract visitors, to ensuring that garbage is not scattered on Wasasar Beach. These activities have also become the work of people from 7 villages on Roon Island for the past 3 months. Not only that, the people of Roon Island were invited to be creative in dance to tell the local wisdom of each village. Dances were created, ranging from dances that tell the story of life, the existence of a place to Christian evangelization on Roon Island. Preparations are made with everything available to them, often they experience limitations but still have the spirit to present Roon as the best tourist destination in Wondama Bay.

Conflicts and misunderstandings also adorned the preparation of this festival. Since the opening of the land, the construction of resort buildings and financial conditions adorn the ups and downs of preparation for the implementation of the festival of the pride of the Roon community. With the burning enthusiasm of the entire festival committee, they were finally able to overcome all these obstacles.

The long-awaited day arrived. July 22, 2019, committees from various places began to arrive; the lighting team, musicians, and the consumption team. They rushed to prepare all aspects of the second Roon Island Festival, which had the theme "Buai Rinemu Kenem Eriria" or in Indonesian means "Local Wisdom is My Life". The exotic appearance radiated from the first time we arrived at Wasasar Beach, the resort buildings made from local materials to the extraordinary stage were neatly arranged on this beach. Communities from 7 villages around Roon Island competed to put the finishing touches on the festival site.

Unexpectedly, with the help of nature, they were able to make something extraordinary that we city dwellers could not make. One by one, they weaved sago leaves into the roofs and walls of houses, intertwining wood after wood with rattan ropes, arranging every corner with ornamental plants that could make city dwellers linger in this place. Not only Wasawar Beach, the community of Kampung Niap, which is one of the villages designated as the location of lodging for guests, has been polished into a comfortable inn for guests to stay in. The lives of people who initially did not think of tourism are now able to make tourists want to linger in this location. The beautiful life and unity with nature gives a special impression of the Roon Island Festival, especially the appeal from the Roon District community not to use bottled water makes the location of the Roon Island Festival celebration even more beautiful.

A special message from the Regent of Wondama Bay for the people of Roon Island "Let's take care of this beautiful place so that we can showcase Roon as an unforgettable natural and cultural tourist spot by bringing our own drinking bottles, we reduce the use of plastic waste due to bottled water" is a slogan that can be used to attract visitors to come to an unforgettable place.

Starting with the Roon people's dance of regret for the missionary Godlief Lodwyk Bink (also known as GL Bink) who came to bring "Light" to the people of Roon Island, showing the traces of Christian evangelization for the people of Roon Island. Local wisdom in marrying off children by custom, conflicts and customary courts as well as ancestral beliefs in a place that is considered sacred to the making of traditional musical instruments, suling tambur, which has long been used to accompany spiritual praise for the Roon community during worship.

The festival was closed with a musical concert by Om Sandy Betay, a Papuan singer who is very popular with the Roon community because he also comes from the island of Roon. The fatigue was gone for a moment as beautiful memorial songs were sung. Like an expression of the community's heart for life as it is on Roon Island, that is the content of the second Roon island festival today. An expression that indicates that life needs to be appreciated because nature has provided everything for us humans, all that is needed is to appreciate it and protect it so that it remains available to meet human needs in the future.