mc5 - AVMA Take 2

Yes, it's another round of that classic guessing game - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Abstract [or any combination thereof]. This effort - '03/'04 should address any queries, but then again, may just serve to confuse and baffle which some might say is the point of the game. Patience, integrity and a decent search engine may be useful ....

ImNotJohn

Stilt-house dwellers

Although that's not restricted to parts of SE Asia

FGZstar

Stilts do feature in the architecture, but are not the most distinctive part, and as you said stilts are not restricted to SE Asia.

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Actually, they are used throughout hot, humid climates, where ventilation is the only effective cooling method

A kampong?

A kampong? No.

A kelong?

Gotong royong?

Neither of these.You must surely be close. Would it help if I told you that there's one word on the card?

Raak

Rukun?

FGZstar

Runkun (as in pillars}? Nope, although pillars do feature. I am looking for the people which give the name of the architecture, not the architecture themselves.

Raak

[FGZstar] Rukun as in the Indonesian concept of "mutual adjustment". Presumably not, nor will it be tolong-menolong, adat, bayanihan, or العرف.

FGZstar

[Raak] You presume correctly.

Raak

We seem to have run to a halt. Time for a clue?

FGZstar

Okay, Clue time. The word on the card is also the name of an international air port. The word is the name of a 'people' with a distinctive style of architecture which responds passively to the microclimate of the area.