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	More Deaths in Continued Violence in Indonesia's Maluku Province
		The continuing violence, mainly aimed at the transmigrants forced by the Indonesian government under Soeharto to settle in Maluku, was renewed in early October.
		Maluku Governor Saleh Latuconsina urged Maluku police Col. Bugis Saman and Chief of the Military Command Brig.
		At least eight people were killed in a fresh outbreak of transmigrant-indigenous people violence in Maluku province, hospital and military officials said on October 22.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Cove/4232/9911/INA-maluku-9910.html (1732 words)

	Maluku Islands Summary
		Maluku (Moluccas), a region of Indonesia formerly known as the Spice Islands, was once the source of cloves and nutmeg, spices highly valued for their aroma, preservative ability, and use in medicine before people learned how to cultivate the plants in other parts of the world.
		The commencement of Indonesian transmigration of (mainly) Javanese populations to the outer islands (including Maluku) during the 1960s is thought to have aggravated independence and issues of religious / ethnic politics.
		Maluku is one of the first provinces of Indonesia, proclaimed in 1945 until 1999, when the Maluku Utara and Halmahera Tengah Regencies were split off as a separate province of North Maluku.
	www.bookrags.com /Maluku_Islands (1640 words)

	Travelling to Indonesia (Maluku)
		Maluku is the only Indonesian province in which land makes up just 10 percent of the area's total surface.
		Maluku is a transition zone between the Asian and Australian fauna and flora, and also between the Malay-based cultures of western Indonesia and those of Melanesia.
		A stronghold of Islam in the otherwise predominantly Christian province of Maluku, Ternate nevertheless carries the clear imprints of both its pre-Islamic past and its period of contact with the West, especially the Portuguese.
	www.emp.pdx.edu /htliono/maluku.html (1299 words)

	Indonesia
		Aceh remained the only province within the country in which the central Government specifically authorized Shari'a; however, Parliament reviewed a highly controversial draft antipornography bill that would outlaw displaying "sensual body parts," kissing in public, and any writings, art, recordings, or broadcasts with sexually explicit content, all of which is broadly defined.
		In Maluku Province the number of those killed in possibly sectarian incidents continued to fall significantly during the period covered by this report.
		Maluku remained relatively calm since riots surrounding the commemoration of a separatist group in April 2004 killed dozens of Ambon residents; however, on August 24, 2005, a homemade bomb exploded from inside a pedicab in the Mardika market in Ambon City, injuring nine persons and damaging motorcycles and cars parked nearby.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71341.htm (8548 words)

	Maluku - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Maluku
		The islands are situated in the Malay Archipelago, with the Philippines to the north, the island of New Guinea to the east, Indonesia to the south, and the island of Sulawesi to the west.
		As the Spice Islands, they were formerly part of the Dutch East Indies; the southern Moluccas have repeatedly attempted secession from the Indonesian republic since 1949, with sectarian fighting continuing in the islands into the 21st century.
		As fighting continued into January 2000, Indonesian troops were sent to the islands.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Maluku (269 words)

	Maluku Conflict Reaches Critical New Phase (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And the fact that they were able to sneak into Maluku and suddenly acquire the kind of heavy military equipment such as rocket launchers and automatic rifles smacks of military collusion, according to some.
		Here the view is that over the past 20 years, the overwhelming majority enjoyed by the Christian community in Maluku was steadily eroded by the Suharto government, who sent in hundreds of thousands of Muslims, and then in the 1990's removed Christians from positions of leadership and replaced them with Muslims.
		And even the overseas Christian press tends to report on Maluku as primarily a "persecuted Christians" case, and seems unaware of the massacres the Christian community has committed, and are even surprised to be told that until recently, the 100,000 refugees who fled the fighting were overwhelmingly Muslim.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/compass-maluku.html (1064 words)

	CNN - Indonesian Elections - Fragile Archipelago - June 1999
		Jakarta declared East Timor to be its 27th province in 1976, a move that sparked international outrage and fueled a growing separatist movement.
		Indonesian President Abudurrahman Wahid responded that the congress does not represent the wishes of a majority of the province and that the congress excluded anti-independence voices.
		Ambon is home to the capital of Maluku province that consists of about 1,000 islands formerly known as the Moluccas, or Spice Islands.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/indonesian.elections/info.maps/archipelago.map.html (1209 words)

	Gary Dean - Ethno-Religious Conflict in Maluku
		Maluku -- an archipelago known as the "Spice Islands" in times past -- is a province of Indonesia, comprising about 1,000 islands in the eastern part of the nation, with a population of a little over two million people.
		For many Indonesians, the message sent by this destruction was unmistakably clear: provinces daring to break away from the Indonesian state would suffer terrible consequences in terms of loss of life and property.
		Between January and April of this year (2000), Maluku was relatively quiet, though still extremely tense and dangerous, due mainly to a massive military deployment and a purge of army units known to be siding with the Muslim side.
	www.okusi.net /garydean/works/maluku.html (3563 words)

	Maluku
		The Moluccas or Moluccan Islands are located in the northeast region of the Indonesian archipelago, bordered by the Philippines to the north, Irian Jaya or West Papua to the east, and the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to the west.
		Roman Catholicism is predominant in East Nusa Tenggara Province and in southeast Maluku Province, while Protestantism is predominant in central Maluku Province and in North Maluku and in North Sulawesi Provinces.
		In the easternmost province of Irian Jaya/Papua, Protestants predominate in the north, and Catholics in the south.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/maluku.htm (3825 words)

	The History of Maluku
		Though other races re-settled the Banda Islands, the rest of Maluku remained uneasy under foreign control and even after the Portuguese had a new trading station at Macassar there were native revolts in 1636 and 1646.
		Maluku is one of the first Indonesia provinces, proclaimed in 1945 until 1999, when North Maluku and Central Halmahera Regencies were split off as a separate province of North Maluku.
		The capital of Maluku province remains at Ambon.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /maluku/history3.html (393 words)

	archipelaGoMaluku
		Maluku is the only Indonesian province in which land makes up just 15 percent of the area's total surface.
		The 14th century Javanese manuscript Nagarakertagama mentions the name Maloko, meaning the island of Ternate, part of this province, which in the 17th century was known to the Portuguese as Moluquo.
		Tual, on Kai Kecil Island, is the capital of this region of Maluku.
	www.goarchi.com /archo/provinces/maluku/maltour.html (1208 words)

	AMBON (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Leihitu Peninsula's north-westem coast is part of the district of Central Maluku with its district-capital, Masohi on the island of Ceram, the south coast along the Bay of Ambon and the whole Leitimor Peninsula is the Municipality of the City of Ambon.
		The original inhabitants of the Maluku archipelago are descended from the Austropolynesian race (a mixture of Austronesians and Polynesians).
		Marsupials in Maluku are evidence of the geographical connection to the Australasian continent.
	www.petra.ac.id /eastern/maluku/cities/ambon/intro.htm (600 words)

	Recording review: The Music Of Indonesia
		Maluku: Halmahera, Buru, Kei contains representative recordings from each of the three general regions of the province, from north, central and southeast Maluku.
		From Halmahera, a pair of tunes from the total repertoire are demonstrated, as are excerpts from the Muslim dabus ceremony, a ritual intended to demonstrate the practitioners' invulnerability.
		Philip Yampolsky's notes to this series conclude by restating "the problem, debated since the beginning of Indonesian nationalism in the early twentieth century, of what to accept as Indonesian culture." Although still missing many pieces, a musical picture emerges from the "bewildering diversity of societies and ways of life" that are Indonesia.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/indonesia99.html (674 words)

	Maluku (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maluku is a province of Indonesia, comprising, broadly, the southern part of the Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccas, Molucca Islands or Moluccan Islands).
		The main city and capital of Maluku province is Ambon City on the small Ambon Island.
		In 1999 the Maluku Utara Regency and Halmahera Tengah Regency were split off as a separate province of North Maluku.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maluku_(Indonesian_province) (883 words)

	Ternate Island
		Ternate is an island and town in the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) of eastern Indonesia, located off the west coast of the larger island of Halmahera.
		Fort Oranje, built by the Dutch and currently being used by the Indonesian police and military is open to the public.
		According to historian Leonard Andaya, Ternate's "dualistic" rivalry with Tidore is a dominant theme in the early history of the Maluku Islands.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /north-maluku/ternate_history.html (292 words)

	Maluku (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 14th century Javanese manuscript Nagarakertagama mentions the name Maloko, meaning the island of Ternate part of this province, which in the 17th century was known to the Portuguese as Moliquo.
		The Dutch, who arrived in 1599, on the other hand, proved to be their toughest contestants in quest for Maluku's treasures.
		Fish and other sea products are nowadays Maluku's major sources of revenue, but nickel, oil, manganese and various timber also contribute to the province's wealth.
	www.indonesian-embassy.or.jp /menue/tourism/maluku.htm (633 words)

	PreventConflict.org - Maps - Maluku
		Among the sources of conflict are traditional regional rivalries, the separatist legacy of some of Maluku’s Christians, the undermining of traditional conflict management practices and leadership structures, government policies under the Suharto regime, and migration.
		Indonesian forces soon put down this movement and there has been little or no talk of independence since among Maluku’s Christians.
		In 1975, fearing a volcanic eruption on the island of Makian, the government resettled the Makian population in the Kao District of northern Halmahera, an island in the traditional sultanate of Ternate.
	www.preventconflict.org /portal/main/maps_maluku_background.php (1256 words)

	:: indonesia house ::
		But with the surrender to the Indonesian police of Berty Loupatty, the notorious leader of a Christian militia group, 'Gang Coker', more facts have come to light about the sinister role of Kopassus, the elite corps of the army.
		Maluku increasingly descended into a war zone while measures taken by the government in Jakarta only strengthened the power base of the military.
		Maluku was given a second military command, with the province being split in two, Maluku and North Maluku and the whole area was placed under a civilian emergency.
	www.indonesia-house.org /focus/militer/012903kopassus-maluku.htm (2245 words)

	Indonesia Provinces
		On 1999-08-30, a referendum was held in the province.
		On 2002-09-24, Kepulauan Riau province (temporary capital Batam, to be supplanted by Tanjung Pinang) was split from Riau, consisting of its islands not adjacent to Sumatera.
		The new province consists of the kabupaten of Karimun, Kepulauan Riau, Lingga, and Natuna, and the kotamadya of Batam and Tanjung Pinang.
	www.statoids.com /uid.html (2946 words)

	Indonesia: Maluku Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Indonesian human rights groups have reported that at least some of the allegations are credible.
		Almost exactly a year ago, on January 19, 1999, as Muslims around the world were celebrating the end of the fasting month, a fight broke out on the island of Ambon, in Maluku province, Indonesia, between a Christian public transport driver and a Muslim youth.
		According to Indonesian government figures, over 1,300 people have been killed since the violence began a year ago, more than 500 in the last two weeks alone.
	www.zmag.org /Bulletins/pmaluku.htm (680 words)

	Inside Indonesia 67 - The aftermath of civil war (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The newly formed province of North Maluku in eastern Indonesia is starting to recover from a period of communal violence that began in August 1999 and continued through July of 2000.
		Formed in October of 1999, the province of North Maluku includes the island of Halmahera and surrounding islands, such as Ternate and Tidore, as well as the Sula Archipelago to the southwest.
		This new sub-district would consist of all of the Makian villages that were established in 1975 when the Indonesian government moved the Makian from their homes on Makian Island and resettled them in Kao to protect them from a predicted volcanic eruption.
	www.serve.com /~inside/edit69/northMaluku.htm (1543 words)

	Advokasi.com :: The Forgotten War in North Maluku :: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tidore demanded that its main town Soasiu become the provisional capital of the new province, and that the permanent capital should be the village of Sofifi, part of its customary territory on Halmahera Island.
		In any case, the final result as laid down in the law on the new province of North Maluku stipulated that Ternate would be the provisional capital, and Sofifi the permanent one - not a compromise either side found satisfactory.
		However, provided all the North Maluku elites wake up to the seriousness of the problem and decide they will do something to stop it, it is not too late to build a true civil society in North Maluku - a tolerant society, democratic, modern and oriented to the future.
	www.advokasi.com /awas/awas.php?sub=Maluku&id=2 (1440 words)

	Maluku
		The English word Moluccas is derived from Maluku, the Arabic term for "land of kings".
		the capital of the central Maluku district, is on Seram’s southcentral coast.
		The plains around the town have received a population boost, with migrant from overcrowded Saparua and some of the isolated islands to the south, as well as resettled mountain dwellers from Seram itself.
	www.regit.com /regitour/indonesi/intplace/maluku.htm (872 words)

	Indonesia travel guide - Wikitravel
		There is no one unified Indonesian culture as such, but the Hindu culture of the former Majapahit empire does provide a framework for the cultural traditions of the central islands of Sumatra, Java and Bali.
		With 17,000 islands to choose from, Indonesian food is an umbrella term covering a vast variety of cuisines, but if used without further qualifiers the term tends to mean the food originally from the central and eastern parts of the main island Java.
		The Indonesian mobile phone market is heavily competed and prices are low: you can pick up a prepaid SIM card for less than Rp 20,000 and calls may cost as little as Rp 1,000 a minute (subject to the usual host of restrictions).
	wikitravel.org /en/Indonesia (11252 words)

	News: Indonesia, Emergency status lifted in Indonesian province (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Indonesia is to lift a state of civil emergency imposed in part of the Maluku islands.
		The emergency status for Maluku and North Maluku provinces was imposed in 2000 after Muslim-Christian fighting broke out in the Maluku capital Ambon in 1999.
		About 5,000 people were killed and 500,000 driven from their homes in the Malukus until a shaky truce took hold a year ago.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/8d8267756f50c7b8c1256ce10048a9d7 (122 words)

	Introduction to the Maluku Languages Bibliography
		In spite of the recent resurgence in scholarly interest in eastern Indonesia, the conception of Maluku as a linguistic area remains in its infancy.
		First, no attempt is made to exclude languages of Maluku origin which are now spoken outside Maluku, such as the variety of Moluccan Malay now spoken in the Netherlands.
		Though these missionaries were not linguists, their observations were based on years of contact with Maluku languages and were often supplemented with the advice of prominent scholars such as W. Schmidt and H. Kern.
	www.faculty.uaf.edu /ffgmh1/maluku_biblio_intro.html (929 words)

	Christians in Indonesia's Maluku islands fear extermination (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is the rainy season in Ambon, and the refugees are "wet, hungry, inadequately clothed, suffering from all kinds of illnesses, and intimidated in their spirits," the Baptists said.
		On Sunday authorities in the far eastern Indonesian province of Irian Jaya impounded a ferry carrying more than 1,000 refugees fleeing the Maluku islands.
		The Uniting Church in Australia, which has partner churches in the Maluku region, has called on Indonesia to invite the United Nations to "facilitate the evacuation of victims of violence in the Maluku islands to safe havens" and "participate in the restoration of law and order and the reconciliation of warring factions."
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/newsroom-Moluccas-Indonesia-4.html (552 words)

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