Lamorende – a small village in the Tongkuno subdistrict of Kabupaten Muna, South Sulawesi
Lamorende is a small settlement in Southeast Sulawesi (Southeast Celebes) province in Indonesia, located in the Tongkuno subdistrict of the Kabupaten Muna administrative unit. Based on its coordinates (−5.106041; 122.555496), it is situated in the interior of Muna Island, relatively close to the regency seat of Raha. The area of Kabupaten Muna is 2,057.69 km² with a population of 223,991 according to 2021 data. There is as yet no independent, detailed statistical source available for Lamorende village itself, so the following description relies predominantly on data at the subdistrict and regency level, as well as on generally known regional characteristics, which the text clearly indicates in every section.
General overview
Lamorende belongs to the Tongkuno subdistrict, which is one of the inland, terrestrial-character administrative units of Kabupaten Muna on Muna Island. Kabupaten Muna overall is a mixed-character region: traditional agriculture (mainly cacao, cashew nuts and other tropical crops), fisheries, and small-scale local trade form the economic foundation. The regency is relatively little known from an international tourism perspective; it remains primarily overshadowed within Southeast Sulawesi by other, more visually striking areas with natural attractions (such as the Wakatobi Islands). Lamorende itself is small and should be regarded as a predominantly rural village community, where livelihoods are connected to local agriculture and related activities. The settlements of Tongkuno subdistrict are generally found on the island's interior, hilly terrain, and the area does not have direct coastal access at this location. Since no detailed public data set is available for either the village or the subdistrict, specific demographic or infrastructural characteristics relating to Lamorende cannot be listed due to lack of sources.
Real estate and investment
The real estate market of Kabupaten Muna — within whose context Lamorende can be understood — is fundamentally a low-priced market based predominantly on local transactions, where transaction volumes and investment activity fall far short of more developed South Sulawesi centers such as the provincial capital, Kendari. In small, rural villages such as Lamorende, the real estate market typically operates informally: in the majority of transactions, local intermediaries and community agreements dominate, with minimal developer activity. As a general Indonesian legal framework note, foreigners cannot acquire full ownership rights (Hak Milik) to real estate in Indonesia, however long-term lease arrangements (such as Hak Pakai, Hak Sewa) and other legal structures are available to them — this is a regulation applicable to the entire country, not specific to Muna. At the regency level, no reliable, current price statistics are available regarding rural real estate, so specific price ranges cannot be provided. From an investment perspective, interior, rural districts similar to Tongkuno subdistrict generally represent low-yield, low-liquidity market segments — based on the available regional context, this is the likely picture.
Safety and security
No settlement-level statistics or detailed police data are available in public sources regarding Lamorende's public safety situation. Rural areas of Kabupaten Muna and Southeast Sulawesi province generally are regarded, according to general assessments of the region, as relatively peaceful areas not marked by crime, where smaller property-related offenses (such as theft of agricultural tools) may occur, but the presence of serious violent crime is not characteristic of such small villages. This is, however, a generalization that should be treated with caution: public safety conditions can differ significantly even between neighboring villages, and current, first-hand local information is always advisable. Indonesian state public order authorities (POLRI) are generally present at the subdistrict level, though actual response capacity in rural areas may be limited.
Tourist attractions
Available sources do not mention any tourist attractions directly linked to and identified by the name of Lamorende village. Within the Kabupaten Muna region, verified sources indicate that the regency does possess certain natural and cultural points of interest — these generally include the karst topography of Muna Island, certain cave systems, and sites associated with Mun-culture traditions, which are found in other parts of the regency. Tongkuno subdistrict and its immediate surroundings are relatively underdeveloped from a tourism perspective, and the area currently does not have visitor numbers comparable to the Wakatobi Islands or the coastal zones of the province. Based on all this, Lamorende cannot be ranked among actively visited tourist destinations; it may offer some local interest to those interested in surrounding landscapes and local rural life, though no verifiable source is available on this matter.
Summary
Lamorende is a small, rural-character Indonesian village on Muna Island, in the Tongkuno subdistrict of Kabupaten Muna, Southeast Sulawesi province. The available public source material extends reliably only to regency level, so detailed demographic, real estate market, or tourism data for the village cannot yet be accurately provided. The regency as a whole is a relatively little-known, predominantly agricultural-character municipality, whose small villages — presumably including Lamorende — represent the quieter segment of Indonesian rural life, as yet relatively little touched by external investment and mass tourism.
