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Moluccans are the Austronesian and Papuan-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands (also called the Moluccas), Eastern Indonesia. The region was historically known as the Spice Islands, [4] and today consists of two Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku. As such, "Moluccans" is used as a blanket term for the various ...
Kalwedo is valid proof of ownership of indigenous peoples in Southwest Maluku (MBD). [2] This ownership is joint ownership of common life. [clarification needed] [3] Kalwedo is rooted in the lives of indigenous peoples in the Babar archipelago and MBD. [2] The Kalwedo cultural inheritance is expressed in a language game, customs, and discourse. [3]
The central foundation of their culture is the customs or adat called ‘Dalihan Na Tolu’ (‘The Three Legged Stove’). The Toba Batak generally are regarded as a patriarchal society. While the role of men is central in the Toba Batak society, the role of women is very crucial with the existence of the Toba Batak concept of ‘ Hula hula ...
North Moluccan Malay (also known as Ternate Malay) is a Malay-based creole language spoken on Ternate, Tidore, Morotai, Halmahera, and Sula Islands in North Maluku for intergroup communications. The local name of the language is bahasa Pasar (literally 'market language'), and the name Ternate Malay is also used, after the main ethnic group ...
North Maluku (Indonesian: Maluku Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It covers the northern part of the Maluku Islands , bordering the Pacific Ocean to the north, the Halmahera Sea to the east, the Molucca Sea to the west, and the Seram Sea to the south.
The Chinese name is asimilated as common Maluku surnames Tan and Oei referring to the Afaratu, surname in Saumlaki, Maluku [6] Tan referring to the Tanlain, surname in Maluku; Gan referring to the Ganwarin, surname in Maluku; Go referring to the Gosal, surname in Maluku; Go referring to the Gosan, surname in Maluku; Oa referring to the Hamenda ...
The Central Maluku languages are a proposed subgroup of the Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family which comprises around fifty languages spoken principally on the Seram, Buru, Ambon and the Sula Islands, Indonesia. None of the languages have as many as fifty thousand speakers, and several are extinct.
A tongkonan layuk ('grand tongkonan') or tongkonan pesio' aluk ('aluk maker') is the original ancestral home in which the aluk of a particular adat territory were established. Tongkonan according to its literal translation, is the place 'to sit' and it is the traditional centre of governance. Customarily people would assemble to sit in a place ...