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Tongkonan is the traditional ancestral house, or rumah adat, of the Torajan people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tongkonan has a distinguishing boat-shaped and oversized saddleback roof . Like most of the Indonesia's Austronesian -based traditional architecture, tongkonan is built on piles.
The Flora of Papua New Guinea, in the WGSRPD, is the flora of the eastern portion of island of New Guinea, i.e. that part of the island that is within the nation state Papua Niugini (Papua New Guinea).
Honai Housing Complex. Honai is a traditional house of the people of the Central Papua and Highland Papua, particularly the Dani. [1] Honai has a simple, round-shaped structure with small doors and no windows.
The pawongan area is planted with regular flowers, fruits, and leaves. The palemahan area is planted with fruits, stems, leaves, and tubers. [ 54 ] Balinese back yards, which are known in Tabanan and Karangasem as teba , are used as a place to cultivate crops and keep livestock for subsistence, commercial, and religious use as offerings. [ 66 ]
A traditional Batak Toba house in North Sumatra. With few exceptions, the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago share a common Austronesian ancestry (originating in Taiwan, c. 6,000 years ago [4]) or Sundaland, a sunken area in Southeast Asia, and the traditional homes of Indonesia share a number of characteristics, such as timber construction and varied and elaborate roof structures. [4]
Intsia palembanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.Common names include Borneo teak, Malacca teak, merbau and Moluccan ironwood.It is native to tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia and the islands of the southwest Pacific.
Language of flowers – cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers; Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas
Rumah Bubungan Tinggi or Rumah Banjar or Rumah Ba-anjung is an iconic type of house in South Kalimantan. Its name Bubungan Tinggi refers to the steep roof (45 degrees). It is one of the Banjarese House types. [1] In the old kingdom time, this house was the core building within a palace complex, where the King and his family resided.