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SEJARAH ARSITEKTUR : Looking to the East, Discovering Sumba Traditional Architecture

    Sumba is one of three big islands of East Nusa Tenggara (Flores Island, Timor Island and Sumba Island). Sumba is widely known to have strong megalithic culture which can be seen to this day through the relics, such as stone tomb or sarcophagus, dolmen and menhir. The characteristic of settlement in Sumba village are the arranging of traditional houses in circular pattern surrounding the open space. In the open space, which is called as talora , Sumba people place the cemetery in form of sarcophagus then erect a dolmen on it as offering table. Sumba people place the cemetery in the settlement open spaces because of their belief on Marapu , the spirit  of ancestor and the dead.      The architecture of the Indonesian island of Sumba is to this day strongly based on vernacular traditions, which include buildings of rectangular layout, constructed from wood and bamboo with large, grass-thatched roofs. There are physical factors and non-physical factors that support the formation of the