Lambo or lamba type of motorised Pinisi line up at Sunda Kelapa, old harbour Jakarta. Pinisi are a traditional Indonesian two to three-masted sailing ship akin to a cutter.

Lambo or lamba type of motorised Pinisi line up at Sunda Kelapa, old harbour of Batavia, now Jakarta. Pinisi are a traditional Indonesian two to three-masted sailing ship akin to a cutter. These lamba Pinisi are motorised freighters used to ply a domestic trade between Indonesia and Borneo of palm kernels for Indonesian cement. Today’s average lamba can load up to 300 ton.

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