Behind of the Mentawai tribe, indigenous that inhabit Mentawai Islands regency, West Sumatra Province, there is the potential culture really unique, interesting and exotic. Various publications, both in the form of research, the documentary film, book publishing, and mass media exposure, almost never forget outto expose Mentawai people's lives. Sikerei, punen, uma, and tattoos are icons that rarely missed about the Mentawai.

In fact, foreign tourists coming to the Mentawai, in addition to surfing the Mentawai and to see the unique culture, which some now endangered.