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	October 1989
		I paused to pray for the 70,000 inhabitants of Bawean.
		Bawean, it is said, was originally settled by migrants from Madura (ma-DU-ra).
		On Java, Bawean is known as “The Isle of Women,” because it has a surplus of women.
	www.missionfrontiers.org /1989/10/o895.htm (1211 words)

	golferchoice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The language of Bawean is officially Indonesian, though being as remote as it is many still speak the original dialect, similar to Madurese.
		There is a saying on Bawean to the effect of "You are not really a man until you have spent several years abroad." It is not uncommon to find Baweanese who have been to Europe, China, Japan, and even North America and South America.
		Bawean is entirely Muslim, though this is heavily blended with shamanism and folk animism.
	www.golferchoice.com /articleresources/?title=Baweans (480 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Baweans
		Bawean is an island of Indonesia located approximately 200 km north of Surabaya in the Java Sea.
		The language of Bawean is officially Indonesian, though being as remote as it is many still speak the original dialect, similar to Madurese.
		Bawean is entirely Muslim, though this is heavily blended with shamanism and folk animism.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Baweans (515 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		Bawean island lies 150 kilometers north of East Java in the Gresik regency and has 60,000 people.
		It was expected the airport would help open up Bawean as a tourist destination and would encourage growth in horticulture and fisheries.
		Conceived as a fishing port, it was supposed to become a fish trading center for fishermen in Bawean.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20040505.D03 (644 words)

	AKSARA-The Passage of Malay Scripts
		This consists of 26 letters of the alphabet, sufficient to spell all the phonetic sounds in Malay.
		Rumi especially facilitates the learning of the Malay language for non-Malays like the Peranakan Chinese or indigenous groups whose mother tongue is not Malay such as the Javanese, Baweans, Bataks, Sundanese and Bugis.
		Rumi memudahkan pembelajaran bahasa Melayu untuk bangsa asing seperti Cina Peranakan dan suku-suku dari Jawa, Bawean, Batak, Sunda dan Bugis.
	exhibitions.nlb.gov.sg /aksara/3/gallery-3.html (300 words)

	VN News (Apr. 16, 1997)
		His mother is from Vietnam but his father is a migrant from the small Indonesian island of Bawean, north of Madura, East Java.
		Members of the community meet in their mosque after the dusk prayer to share a meal and, sometimes, to tell a visitor the story of the beginning of this ethnic group in Vietnam.
		Eventually, those at home in Bawean received news from their brothers living in Saigon, exhorting them to join them, to soothe their homesickness.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~vu/vnsa/1997/vnsa16/msg00175.html (0 words)

	Australian Information from Wikipedia
		Of Singapore residents, Chinese Singaporeans form the largest ethnic group, accounting for 77% of the population.
		This number includes closely related ethnic groups from other parts of the Malay archipelago including the Javanese, Bugis, Baweans and Minangkabau.
		Indian Singaporeans are the third largest ethnic group at 8%, consisting of several groups â” Indian Tamils and Sri Lankan Tamils, who form the largest Indian ethnic / linguistic group, and others such as Malayalees and Punjabis.
	www.thinkingaustralia.com /thinking_australia/wikipedia/default.php?title=Singapore (0 words)

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