Rice barn

The upper storage area often has a distinct omega shape created by bending flexible framing of split bamboo or betel nut trees to support the roof.

The roof is generally covered with alang-alang grass and the sides are made of woven, split bamboo (called pagar).

The pole support structure beneath the raised, enclosed rice barn is open with no walls.

In vernacular architecture of Indonesian archipelago rice barns are made of wood and bamboo materials, and roof usually made from dried grass, palm leaves, or ijuk (Arenga pinnata fibers), and most of them are built raised up on four or more posts to avoid rodents and insects.

Brick pier foundations support the structures, which usually climbed two stories high; gable roofs topped most of them off.

Entrance doors, however, were often found at the end of one of the barn's long side walls and into the hay loft on the second floor.