East Malaka

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Kecamatan Malaka Timur
East Malaka District
Basic data
Country Indonesia
province East Nusa Tenggara
Administrative district MalakaTemplate: Infobox administrative unit / maintenance / other
Seat Boas
Residents 9142 (2010)
ISO 3166-2 ID-NT

Coordinates: 9 ° 29 ′  S , 124 ° 57 ′  E

East Malaka (Lesser Sunda Islands)
East Malaka
East Malaka
Location in East Nusa Tenggara Province

East Malaka ( Indonesian Malaka Timur ) is an Indonesian district ( Kecamatan ) in the administrative district ( Kabupaten ) Malaka ( East Nusa Tenggara Province ). Until December 14, 2012, East Malaka was still part of Belu Governorate .

geography

East Malaka is located in the north of the Malaka administrative district, on the island of Timor . To the west is the Laenmanen district , to the south Botin Leobele and to the east Kobalima . In the north, East Malaka borders the Belu administrative district with its Rai Manuk district .

East Malaka is divided into Desa (villages) Numponi (2,416 inhabitants 2010), Sanleo (1,817), Dirma (1,167), Kusa (1,478), Wemeda (1,452) and Raiulun (812).

The administrative seat is Boas .

Residents

In 2010, 9,142 people lived in West Tasifeto. The majority of them belong to the Tetum ethnic group and the majority are of the Catholic faith . There are also Bunak settlements , such as Haroe in Desa Sanleo. Most of the Bunak are descendants of refugees who left Maucatar in East Timor when it was given to the Portuguese by the Dutch in 1916 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RUU Tentang Pembentukan Kabupaten Malaka di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur ( Memento from January 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 274 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
  3. ^ Map of Belu County , accessed July 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ Antoinette Schapper: Finding Bunaq: The homeland and expansion of the Bunaq in central Timor ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 26, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / epress.anu.edu.au