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    Lamakera is a village in Indonesia, on the east tip of Solor Island. It was known for being the place where the most manta rays are killed. It was featured...
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    in Faroese. Lamalera, on the south coast of the island of Lembata, and Lamakera on neighbouring Solor are the last two remaining Indonesian whaling communities...
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    vessel used for aboriginal whaling from the communities of Lamalera and Lamakera in the islands of Lembata and Solor, respectively. It is propelled by sails...
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    that year. Lamalera, on the south coast of the island of Lembata, and Lamakera on neighbouring Solor, are the two remaining Indonesian whaling communities...
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    south coast). Together with two principalities on Solor (Lohayong and Lamakera), they constituted a league called Watan Lema ("the five shores"). The...
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    stalks can be beaten to produce liquid. The nut kernels are also edible. In Lamakera, its (ketebu) leaves are made into fibres weaved with sea hibiscus bark...
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    whaling is being carried out in the garb of aboriginal whaling. Lamalera and Lamakera (on the neighbouring island of Solor) are the last two remaining Indonesian...
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  • CITES Appendix II list of protected species, thus stopping the village of Lamakera on Solor in Indonesia from killing them to supply demand in China. The...
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    coast. 1520: The Portuguese established a trading post in the village of Lamakera on the eastern side of Solor (in present-day Indonesia) as a transit harbour...
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    In 1520, the Portuguese established a trading post in the village of Lamakera on the eastern side of the island as a transit harbor between Maluku and...
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    from Lamakera, Solor, belonged to B. omurai. There is also a photograph (taken between 1915 and 1944) of a whale caught by the villagers of Lamakera that...
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  • rulers. 1520 The Portuguese established a trading post in the village of Lamakera on the eastern side of Solor as a transit harbour between Maluku and Malacca...
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  • Waiwerang is a transit harbour used by sea transportation from and to Lamakera in Solor Island, Larantuka in East Flores and Lewoleba in Lomblen Island...
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  • Makunimau Hereditary Kui Raja Kaharuddin Kinanggi Kinanggi Hereditary Lamakera Raja Abdul Gafur Ibrahim 1987 Dasi Hereditary Lewa Raja Pingi Ai 23 January...
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    billions'". BBC News. Retrieved 27 January 2016. Barnes, R. H. (1996). "Lamakera, Solor. Ethnographic Notes on a Muslim Whaling Village of Eastern Indonesia"...
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    2014 Indonesian legislative election until his death. Taher was born in Lamakera, a small Muslim fishing village in the Christian-majority province of East...
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    rays, orcas (Orcinus orca), dolphins and oceanic sharks. Lamalera and Lamakera (on the neighbouring island of Solor) are the last two remaining Indonesian...
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    small open boats by hunters from two Indonesian villages, Lamalera and Lamakera. This is permitted under rules concerning aboriginal whaling. It is estimated...
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    agricultural implements. In the Lamalera village on Lomblen island and Lamakera village on Solor island, whaling is developed. Traditional cumulus settlements...
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    established throughout the Dutch East Indies with the farthest reach to Lamakera, East Nusa Tenggara. Like pesantren in Java, MTI in the early days only...
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