Boat People No Longer

THE Bajo tribe are known as boat people because their livelihood depends on the boats—although it’s estimated that their numbers continue to decline. According to Munsi, they have started to live on the beach, building homes on stilts.

Professor of Anthropology at Haluoleo University and a researcher of the Bajo tribe, Professor Nasruddin Suyuti, says that it’s hard today to find Bajo still living on bido, a home-on-boat. A bido is like a

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