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Tobelo and environs is predominantly Christian and this is expressed colourfully at Christmas with bamboo poles arching over the side of the roads hung with lights and multi-coloured flags. At Easter, local church congregations hold a competition to see who can create the best Easter garden.Tobelo and environs boasts large swathes of locally owned coconut plantations, supplying hundreds of tonnes of copra dried coconut flesh every month to the ports of Bitung North Sulawesi and Surabaya East Java.
