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Klaas, Dua Kudushana Singgih Yejezkial 2019. Assessing the sustainability of groundwater resources in a tropical karstic island (Rote Island, Indonesia) – PhD, Thesis, Swinburne University of Technology.
Listya, A. R. 2018. The Conceptualization and Sustainability of Rotenese Gong Music, Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Otago.
Balukh, Jermy 2018. A grammar of Dhao, a minority Austronesian language of Eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. University of Leiden.
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Basile, Christopher 2003. Tradition and change in Rotinese sasandu-accompanied song. PhD Thesis – Monash University.
Noach-Patty, Maria Agustina 1995. Gender, development and social change in Rote, eastern Indonesia. PhD Diss. University of Hull.
Fox. James J 1968. The Rotinese: A study of the social organisation of an eastern Indonesian people. PhD Diss. University of Oxford.
Muller Irmgard 1967. Die primären Textiltechniken auf Sumba, Rote und Timor. Doctoral thesis, Universität Basel.
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