| Ayawasi | |
| Settlement Type: | village |
| Pushpin Map: | Indonesia Southwest Papua#Indonesia_Western New Guinea#Indonesia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Southwest Papua##Location in Western New Guinea##Location in Indonesia |
| Coordinates: | -1.16°N 132.464°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Southwest Papua |
| Subdivision Type2: | Regency |
| Subdivision Name2: | Maybrat |
| Subdivision Type3: | District |
| Subdivision Name3: | North Aifat |
| Elevation M: | 450 |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 1953 |
| Population Total: | 1200 |
| Population As Of: | 2007 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postcodes |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Timezone: | Indonesia Eastern Time |
| Utc Offset: | +9 |
Ayawasi is a small village part of a larger settlement of about 1,200 people in the Indonesia province of Southwest Papua. It is located in the North Aifat District, north of the Ayamaru Lakes, in Maybrat Regency and it is the site of Ayawasi Airport.
The village was established by the Dutch around 1953. Prior to this, the people of this area lived scattered in small groups in their respective ancestral grounds, where each group had its own "family dialect" differing in small ways from the dialect of the other groups. As of the 1990s, around 95% of the population are indigenous Maybrat (more specifically), the rest have come from other parts of Indonesia to work in the schools, government offices and the Catholic mission. The Aifat people of Ayawasi are fully bilingual in Maybrat and Indonesian. The Maybrat language spoken in Ayawasi has been the subject of a 2007 descriptive grammar, and a major ethnographic study on the people was conducted in the 1970s.