Whaling off Lembata: The effects of a development project on an Indonesian community

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Robert Barnes
Number of pages: 32
ISSN number: 0105-4503
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Indonesia
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 1984
Release Month | Day: apr-84

Tags: Climate

For thirty-three months, from March, 1973 until Novem­ber, 1975, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations administered a Freedom From Hunger Campaign Project in Lamalera, Lembata, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia. A relatively isolated village of around 1,200 persons on the south coast of the small and rugged volcanic island Lembata, Lamalera possesses a mixed economy much affected by modern national and international influences.

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