Sikanese

Sikanese, people inhabiting the mountains and coastal areas between the Bloh and Napung rivers in east-central Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia. Numbering about 180,000 in the late 20th century, they speak a language related to Solorese, which belongs to the Timor-Ambon language group. In 1929 the Nita and Kangae mountain domains were united with Sika territory to form an autonomous region under the Radja of Sika, which survives today as the...