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1 Two forms of Sikkanese society can be distinguished in contemporary Kabupaten2 Sikka of eastern Flores on ethnological grounds. One is that of the Ata Tana ’Ai in the eastern region of the kabupaten. The other is that of central Sikka, which includes the villages of the central hills and mountains and the north and south coasts of the regency. 3 The main difference between the two societies that will concern me here is this: whereas no secular polity ever developed in Tana ’Ai, by the beginning of the 20th century, the society of central Sikka constituted a local state, a single polity under the rule of a Sikkanese royal house, which traced its origins through 18 rajas and at least 16 generations. 4 The Rajadom of Sikka dated at least to the Portuguese era in eastern Indonesia, evolved into a semi-autonomous state under the Dutch policy of zelfbestuur (self-rule) in the 19th and 20th centuries, and reached the apex of its power and independence in the absence of the Dutch Colonial Government in the decade immediately after World War II. Tana ’Ai came under direct Sikkanese rule only in the last three decades of the history of the Rajadom of Sikka. Indeed, Sikkanese rule had so little practical effect in Tana ’Ai that contemporary Ata Tana ’Ai still recognise five tana, or ‘ceremonial domains’, in their region today (see Map 1) and remember very little of the rajadom or its Sikkanese rulers.

From Domains to Rajadom: Notes on the History of Territorial Categories and Institutions in the Rajadom of Sikka