Suku Tanimbar (Tanimbarese) are an
Indonesia
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n ethnic group of mixed
Austronesian
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*The historical Austronesian peoples
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and
Melanesian
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* Melanesians
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in
Tanimbar
The Tanimbar Islands, also called ''Timur Laut'', are a group of about 65 islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia. The largest and most central of the islands is Yamdena; others include Selaru to the southwest of Yamdena, Larat and Ford ...
origin. They are majority
Christians
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followed by
Muslims
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.
Duan - Lolat
The Majestic traditions in (
Maluku Tenggara Barat
Tanimbar Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Tanimbar) is a regency of Maluku province, Indonesia, consisting primarily of the Tanimbar Islands. The Regency covers a land area of 10,102 km2, and it had a population of 105,341 at the 20 ...
) is Duan Lolat.
Literation
*McKinnon, Susan. "8. The Tanimbarese Tavu: The Ideology of Growth and the Material Configurations of Houses and Hierarchy in an Indonesian Society" In Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies edited by Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie, 161–176. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
*Kjellgren, E. P. (1997).
eview of Forgotten Islands of Indonesia: The Art and Culture of the Southeast Moluccas, by N. de Jonge & T. van Dijk Pacific Arts, 15/16, 135–137.
* Членов М. А. - Танимбарцы //
Народы и религии мира / Глав. ред.
В. А. Тишков. М.: Большая Российская Энциклопедия, 1999.
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Tanimbar Islands
Ethnic groups in Indonesia