Rainawe
| Desa Rainawe Rainawe village
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| Country | Indonesia |
| province | East Nusa Tenggara |
| Administrative district | Malaka |
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| Residents | 3040 (2010) |
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-NT |
Coordinates: 9 ° 29 ′ S , 125 ° 3 ′ E
 
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Location in East Nusa Tenggara Province
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Rainawe is an Indonesian Desa ("village") in the district ( Kecamatan ) Kobalima ( Malaka administrative district , East Nusa Tenggara province ) on the island of Timor .
geography
Rainawe is located in the southeast of the Kobalima district on the Timor Sea . To the west are the Desas Litamali and Sisi . Across the Mota Babulu River is the East Kobalima District .
In Rainawe is Raihenek , the administrative seat of the district. To the east of this is the village of Namfalus .
Residents
In 2010 there were 3,040 people in Rainawe. They belong to the Tetum and Bunak ethnic groups . Most of the region's bunaks are descendants of refugees who left East Timorese Maucatar when it was given to the Portuguese by the Dutch in 1916 . The Bunak in Namfalus did not come to Rainawe until World War II . They had fought against the Japanese invaders in Bobonaro, East Timor , and fled their old homeland in the face of reprisals.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
- ^ Map of Belu County , accessed July 27, 2014.
- ↑ Antoinette Schapper: Finding Bunaq: The homeland and expansion of the Bunaq in central Timor , pp. 175–176 ( Memento of the original of 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
