Adonara’s Stone of Truth
Monday, April 15, 2024
Adonara is not an island of killers. It is an island of people who believe that the truth is directly connected to the world and the afterlife.
IN Redontena, Adonara, like most villages in East Flores and the Lamaholot cultural area, the living and the dead peacefully coexist. Those who have passed on are buried in the vicinity of their loved one’s homes.
In Adonara, Catholics and Muslims too live, die, and coexist peacefully. By a house, in front of a small mosque, lay the graves of a married couple, surrounded by a short fence and a tin roof. On the left, the wife’s g
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