Puntaru is a village on Pantar Island in the Alor Regency

Alor Regency

Alor Regency is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Established in 1958, Alor Regency administers the Alor Archipelago with its seat in Kalabahi on Alor Island....

 in East Nusa Tenggara

East Nusa Tenggara

East Nusa Tenggara is a province of Indonesia, located in the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, including West Timor. The provincial capital is Kupang, located on West Timor...

 province of Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

. Puntaru has a population of approximately 600 and is the administrative seat of Desa Tude. The traditional language of Puntaru is Western Pantar

Western Pantar language

Western Pantar is a Papuan language spoken in the western part of Pantar island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia...

, though all adult residents also speak Indonesian

Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....

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An elementary school and a regional junior high school are located in Puntaru.

The economy centers around subsistence farming of dry-land rice

Rice

Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...

and other cereal crops.