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Cakalele dance (pronounced "cha-ka-leh-leh", spelled tjakalele by the Dutch) is a war dance from North and Central Maluku in Indonesia. [1] Hybrid versions also exist among the natives of Sulawesi (Kabasaran dance or Sakalele of the Minahasan), [2] East Nusa Tenggara (Abui Cakalele from Alor), [3] the Tanimbar Islands, [citation needed] and Fakfak ( Mbaham-Matta's Cakalele Mbreh). [4]
Kabasaran is a traditional Minahasan martial art and war dance from North Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is performed by several men clad in red costumes, wielding a sword with a shield or a spear. The dancers are called kawasalan, which implies imitating like a pair of fighter cocks. [1]
The outer circle in a moraego dance in 1918, Kulawi, Sulawesi. Photo by Walter Kaudern. Moraego (or raego, or marego), is the name of a traditional and ritual dance in Central Sulawesi. In historical time, Central Sulawesi highlanders have performed circle dances and accompanying songs (in Uma raego) at all major precolonial rituals. [1]
Papuan tumbu tanah dance. Prior to their contact with the outer world the people of the Indonesian archipelago had already developed their own styles of dancing, still somewhat preserved by those who resist outside influences and choose tribal life in the interior of Sumatra (example: Batak, Nias, Mentawai), of Kalimantan/Borneo (example: Dayak, Punan, Iban), of Java (example: Baduy), of ...
The province of Southeast Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tenggara) in Indonesia is divided into fifteen regencies (kabupaten) and two cities (kota), which together are subdivided in turn administratively into 219 districts (kecamatan). The districts of Southeast Sulawesi, with the regency or city each falls into, are as follows:
The Muna language is a member of the celebic language Subgroup which is present only in Indonesia and Malaysia.However, from the physical appearance of the body, skull, skin color (dark brown), and hair (curly or wavy) it appears that the aboriginal Muna people are closer to the ethnic groups of Polynesians and Melanesians in the Pacific and Aboriginal Australians compared to the Buginese or ...
Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesian: Sulawesi Tenggara, often abbreviated to Sultra), is a province on the island of Sulawesi, forming the southeastern peninsula of that island, together with a number of substantial offshore islands such as Buton, Muna, Kabaena and Wawonii (formerly called Wowoni), together with many smaller islands.
According to BPS (Indonesia's Central Statistics Bureau), Central Sulawesi has an area of 61,605.72 km 2 (23,786 sq mi), [6] but the sum of the area figures submitted by the regencies and city is actually 65,863.75 km 2 (25,430 sq mi); in either case, the province has the largest area among all provinces on Sulawesi Island, and has the second ...