Baju Lamina

The baju lamina (also known as lamena by Bugis, sa 'dan by Toraja, lamina or laminah by Malays)[1][2] is a mail and plate armor from the Nusantara archipelago (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Philippines).

The baju lamina is a chain armor that is worked in the form of a vest.

The brass plates serve to reinforce the chain armor at the level of the more vulnerable chest and pelvis.

The son of Afonso de Albuquerque mentioned the armament of Malacca:[3][4] There are large matchlocks (Java arquebus), poisoned blowing tubes, bows, arrows, armor-plated dresses (laudeis de laminas), Javanese lances, and other sorts of weapons.It is unknown whether Malaccan armor-plated dresses were used in battle, only used by the elites and nobilities, or if they were purely ceremonial dresses.

[5] Rui de Araújo reported that very few soldiers of the Malaccan army wore armor.