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Natural materials – timber, bamboo, thatch, and fibre – make up rumah adat. [5] The traditional house of Nias has post, beam, and lintel construction with flexible nail-less joints, and non-load bearing walls are typical of rumah adat. Traditional dwellings have developed to respond to Indonesia's hot and wet monsoon climate.
Dalam Loka of Sumbawa is the former residence of the sultan of Sumbawa with an elongated twin stilt house shape and two levels of gabled roofs. Bugis - Makassar saoraja or balla houses are stilt houses, with gabled roofs and have a distinctive gable cover called timpalaja with a certain number of arrangements as a symbol of the social status of ...