Culture Flores from Nusa tenggara timur ,Indonesia




Flores, of the Portuguese language, which means "flower" is located in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Flores included in the group of the Lesser Sunda Islands along Bali and NTB, with an area of ​​approximately 14,300 km². Population in Flores, in 2007, reached 1.6 million. The highest peak is Mount Ranakah (2350m) which is the second highest mountain in East Nusa Tenggara, after Mount Mutis, 2427m in West Timor. Flores Island along with the island of Timor, Sumba and Alor Islands are four islands in NTT, which is a province in the Indonesian archipelago with 566 islands. Flores, with comprehensive, population and resources both natural and man who was considered good enough, is now preparing itself to be a division of NTT province. At the west end and the eastern island of Flores there are several small islands. In the east there is the cluster of Lembata Island, Adonara and Solor, while in the west there is a cluster of Komodo and Rinca. West of the island of Flores, after a cluster of small islands, there are islands of Sumbawa (NTB), while in the east after a cluster of small islands, there are a Alor archipelago. In the southeast there is the island of Timor. In the southwest there is the island of Sumba, in the south there is the Savu Sea, next to the north, beyond the Flores Sea are Sulawesi.

 
Flores tribe is an ethnic mix of Malay, Melanesian, and Portuguese. Due to ever become a Portuguese colonies, then the interaction with Portuguese culture is very pronounced in Flores culture, either through genetics, religion, and culture.

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Culture flore tribe occupies an archipelago with an area of ​​3079.23 sq km, bordering the Alor regency in the east, the district sicca in the north west and south by sea Flores, Savu Sea.
    
The concept of the traditional houses used flores society has always been considered as the center of tribal rituals. The traditional house made in honor Lera Wulan Tana Enka (supreme being that creates and the owner of the Earth).
    
BahasaSuku flores known as the cultural language that is multi language, tribe flores has a variety of languages ​​in everyday communication between people is one of them Werana language, language Rembong, Rajong language, and language Manggarai Nails.
    
Flores Tribe kinship systems have an ancient kinship system, namely:
        
Flores kinship groups functioning in the most intensive in their daily lives is a spacious living verilokal (kilo).
        
Most kilo usually feel themselves bound by patrilinier descent from a common ancestor roughly five to six generations or more.
        
In marriage, the woman will ask a lot of dowry, dowry were commonly in the form of a buffalo, food, etc.
    
In the marriage system in tribal marriage customs flores, flores tribe has three marriage system, namely:
        
eggshell
    
Intermarriage or marriage outside the tribe. In this marriage is emphasized is the groom should have a high social status to woo his bride.
        
stove
    
Woe to maintain marital relations Nelu (relatives). The marriage between the boy from the mother marries the daughter of the mother's brother or uncle.
        
Cako
    
Marriage within the tribe itself. Cako marriage can usually be done in the third layer or the fourth layer in the list of the family tree.
     
Tribal settlement patterns flores
        
Villages in tribal flores anciently built on top of a hill due to the defense if there is one thing that does not want.
        
Pattern flores tribal village consists of three parts: the front, middle, and rear that are in a loop of the village.
        
In ancient times each of each part of the tribal house flores there is a sacred place in the form of a large pile of rocks. But now there is only one sacred place in a village, and an open field located near the village hall and commonly called the mbaru drum, because in it there is a sacred drum.LIFE OF PEOPLE RATE FLORESAs for the life of the tribal people flores is to:

    
By planting: flores tribal communities also frequently fished in the form of fruits or vegetables. Maize and rice are the staple crops of the tribe flores, but not only farming, tribal flores also do farming in the form of cattle, buffaloes, pigs, horses, dogs, and chickens.Flores Island is one of the major islands in NTT, which consists of many different cultures, including: Culture of East Flores, Sikka, Ende, Ngada and Manggarai. Each culture penjabarannya as follows:TRADITIONAL WEAPONS PARTS FLORESSUNDU

 
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  1. Portuguese should be the language of Flores again. Try to make that happen and you will share similar cultural and linguistic partnership with East Timor, and become a member of economically powerful global CPLP (Community of Portuguese Language Countries) including: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, San Tome & Principe, Macau, Goa.

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