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The tifa, tiwa or tiva is a single-headed goblet drum used throughout the Maluku Islands of Eastern Indonesia, where it is traditionally the "dominant instrument" in Maluku province music. [1] The term tifa has been used outside of the Maluku Islands, including on the island of Java and on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia's Papuan ...
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]
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 ...
Following the splitting off of the northern parts of the regency in 1999 to form the new North Maluku Province (Maluku Utara), the residual province of Maluku was composed of two regencies (Central Maluku and Southeast Maluku) and the City of Ambon, but on 4 October 1999 two new regencies were created with the separation of Buru Regency from ...
Tidore is a language of North Maluku, Indonesia, spoken by the Tidore people. [4] The language is centered on the island of Tidore, but it is also spoken on the neighbouring islands of Mare and Moti to the south, and Maitara to the northwest of Tidore, as well as in some areas of the neighbouring Halmahera. [4]
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 ...
Saparua is an Austronesian language spoken in Maluku of eastern Indonesia.Dialects are diverse, and Latu might be included as one. Saparua is currently spoken by around 1,500 people, and it is threatened by extinction.