Located on the south side of Adonara Island, Lamahala is one of the few villages in East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) that has a hundreds of Muslim percent.
The Islamic Denyut is still strong to be kept in life about 7.000 residents of Lamahala who majority are professional as fishermen.
A variety of activities from daily routine worship, religious education for children, to Islam’s distinguish customs becomes the color of village everyday living in the district with the majority of Catholics. Not less than 14 suraus and one large mosque called Jami Al Maruf has been established and continue to broadcast Islam in Lamahala.
Lamahala Jaya village air is the center of the Oldhala Islamic Kingdom located between the Adonara Island hills and Solor Strait waters, East Flores District, East Nusa Tenggara.
The number of mothers carry a tray contains food across the Oldhala Kingdom House Gate in Adonara Island, East Flores District, East Nusa Tenggara. The 19th Kingdom of Lamahala, Raja Haji Adnan Sangaji poses in front of his palace in Adonara Island and the waters of Solor Strait, East Flores District, East Nusa Tenggara.
The strong prophet of Islam in Lamahala is not separated from the background of his history as one of the Islamic kingdoms of the colonial nation, Portuguese and Dutch.
Among the kingdoms that stand in East Flores, Lamahala became one of the kingdoms that would not be subject to colonial government, either to Portuguese or Dutch. A number of fighters is reached by the Oldhala people in maintaining his country.
There are two panglima Lamahala Kingdom recorded as the nation’s hero because of his gratitude leads the people against invaders, among others Kapitan Lingga during the Portuguese colonial period and Kapitan Belae in the Dutch colonial period. In fact, saking the difficulty of the invaders conquer Lamahala, the Netherlands took the step of the typing of the mussee. One of the Lamahala heroes, Kapitan Belae also so victims. Upon the beginning, it turns out that in the end was arrested and exiled the Netherlands to Java until the death and buried there.
The citizen crosses the preliminary kings of the Kingdom of Islam Lamahala in Adonara Island, East Flores District, East Nusa Tenggara.
The people who are the descendants of the Oldhala hero, Kapitan Lingga, pilgrimage in their ancestors who are at the top of one of the hills on the Island of Adonara, East Flores District, East Nusa Tenggara.
Lamahala itself developed into the Islamic kingdom in Adonara Island since the end of the 14th century or lie in Islam from Demak and Bugis to Flores and other islands around, including Adonara.
In addition to Lamahala, in Adonara Island there are two other Islamic kingdoms, including the Trong Kingdom on the west side of the island and the Adonara Kingdom on the north side of the island. Lamahala itself masters the southern side of the Island of Adonara to Leur Island near Lembata Island.
Since its establishment until the 1940s medio, Raja Lamahala is not just as a local custom institution, but also as a country leader that regulates all the joints of his society’s lives.
The ancient people used Lamahala Kingdom in against Portuguese and Dutch colonialists are still kept in the Kingdom House in Adonara Island, East Flores District, East Nusa Tenggara.
The first building in the Lamahala soil, the Lawaha Custom House is still standing sturdy after experiencing several renovation times. This customary house is treated with local communities.
The royal system ends when the reign of King Ismaâ€TMil Adi on medio 1942-1962. “With the recognition of Lamahala as part of the State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI), then the power of the king is only as a leader of customs and for the law of our legislation is subject to the rules applicable in Indonesia,†said the 19th king of the leaders of the Kingdom of the current century, King Haji Adnan Sangaji.
The arrival period has passed, the latest generation of Lamahala was faced in the preservation of traditions in the center of modernization. A number of the relics of the grandmother of the Oldhala Kingdom are still nurtured until now. King Lamahala Palace, the first building of Lamahala Rumah Adat Lawaha, and a number of heritage became the heritage of the ancestors treated together by the Oldhala community.
“If we are not anyone else. If the generation of successor does not care, musnah is already a culture in Lamahala, the word one of the residents of Lamahala, Hamid Bonda Atapukan.
The grandfather quoted from his home window in Lamahala Jaya Village, East Flores District, East Nusa Tenggara.
The number of Islam is preparing to implement Maghrib prayer in Jami Al Maruf Mosque, Lamahala Jaya Village, Adonara Island, East Flores District, East Nusa Tenggara.
Photo and text : Aditya Pradana Putra
Author : Fanny Octavianus
The children were taught reading Al Quran in the village of Lamahala Jaya, Adonara Island, East Flores District, East Nusa Tenggara.
In addition to looking for fish, trade also into the economy of the Lamahala community in East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. The 19th Kingdom of Lamahala, King Haji Adnan Sangaji brought the first Presidential stick of the Republic of Indonesia, Soekarno. The Bung Karno head engraved stick is the predecessed king’s heritage as evidence of the recognition of the Lamahala Kingdom as part d
