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	A Truly Asian Experience : The Place is Indonesia with Thousand Islands for your Holiday
		It is an appropriate description of the archipelago as there are estimated to be a total of 17,508 islands, of which only about 6,000 are inhabited, stretching for 5,150 km between the Australian and Asian continental mainlands and dividing the Pacific and Indian Oceans at the Equator.
		Five main islands and 30 smaller archipelagoes are home to the majority of the population.
		The main islands are Sumatra / Sumatera (473,606 sq.km), Kalimantan / Borneo (539,400 sq.km), Sulawesi / Celebes (189,216 sq.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /general/general.html (765 words)

	Bali Indonesia Travel Service and Hotel Reservation
		American citizens traveling to the border regions in Northern Kalimantan and Sulawesi, in particular the smaller islands closer to the Philippines, are urged to review their security procedures, remain vigilant to their surroundings, keep a low profile, and vary routes and times of all required travel.
		In the Molucca Islands, serious communal violence broke out on the island of Ambon in January 1999 and has now spread throughout this island group.
		Although anti-Christian sentiment is not widespread in Indonesia, inflammatory statements by community leaders, as well as violence in the Molucca Islands, have sparked some tension between Moslem and Christian communities elsewhere in Indonesia.
	www.any-service.de /griyasari/health.htm (3511 words)

	Nutmeg
		Nutmeg is the seed of Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree native to the Molucca Islands.
		Middle Eastern traders brought Nutmeg and mace to Southern Europe in the sixth century, and they were wellknown by the twelfth century from Italy to Denmark.
		The Portuguese found Nutmeg trees in the Molucca Islands, and dominated the Nutmeg and mace trade until the Dutch overcame it in 1602.
	www.culinarycafe.com /Spices_Herbs/Nutmeg.html (311 words)

	Bachian - LoveToKnow 1911
		The island is in part of volcanic formation, and the existence of hot springs points to volcanic activity.
		A large portion of the island is richly wooded, and sago, cocoa-nuts and cloves (which are indigenous) are abundantly produced.
		The interior of the island is uninhabited and none of the dwellers on the coast are indigenous.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bachian (275 words)

	Maluku Islands - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The vegetation of the small and narrow islands, encompassed by the sea, is very luxuriant; including rainforests, sago, rice, and the famous spices nutmeg, cloves, mace, and others.
		Although cultures varied across this dispersed group of islands, there is a sense in which the Moluccas were a cosmopolitan society, in that traders from across the region took residence in Moluccan settlements, or in nearby enclaves, to conduct spice business.
		Its capital is Ternate, on a small island to the west of the large island of Halmahera.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Molucca_Islands (1039 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Moluccas (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The islands were also historically known as the "Spice Islands" by the Chinese and Europeans.
		The South Moluccas (Maluku Selatan) existed as a separate colony of the Netherlands until 1949, when they were ceded to the newly independent Republic of Indonesia.
		Its provisional capital is Ternate[?], on a small island to the west of the large island of Halmahera[?], although it is not particularly stable.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/mo/Moluccas (217 words)

	Nutmeg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The tree is native to the Molucca Islands.
		Landing systematically on all the islands outside the Molucca Sea, the Dutch cut down all the nutmeg trees, wild and cultivated, and cut the throats of the native growers and traders of the spice.
		When they realized that almost all of the natives of the Molucca Islands were secretly trading part of their harvests, they resolved to take more extreme measures.
	www.innvista.com /HEALTH/foods/spices/nutmeg.htm (758 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Central Kalimantan
		The Riau Islands (Kepulauan Riau (Kepri for short) or sometimes Riau Kepulauan in Bahasa Indonesia) are a province and a group of islands in Indonesia, located south of Singapore, off the eastern coast of Riau province on Sumatra island.
		Map of Lesser Sunda Islands The Nusa Tenggara, or Lesser Sunda Islands, are a group of islands in the middle-south part of the Malay Archipelago.
		Central Kalimantan, is the biggest Indonesian province on the island of Kalimantan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Central-Kalimantan (1149 words)

	Andrés Urdaneta
		He left the Island of Cebu in July, 1565, and was obliged to sail as far as 36 degrees North latitude to obtain favourable winds.
		He wrote two accounts of his voyages; the one giving the account of the Loaiza expedition was published; the other, which gives the account of his return voyage, is preserved in manuscript in the archives of the Indies.
		In fact, their big problem was to find the way back from the Moluccas to New Spain, and this search led to the discovery by Saavedra of the island which Ortíz de Retes baptised as New Guinea in 1545.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/u/urdaneta,andres.html (761 words)

	Indonesia after Suharto
		Formerly called the Spice Islands, the Moluccas—once highly valued for their nutmeg and cloves—were the islands Columbus had hoped to reach when he instead found himself in the Americas.
		The Moluccas, whose capital is Ambon, was formerly considered to be a model of religious tolerance.
		Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, has been the scene of grisly bloodshed, with the indigenous Dayak tribespeople attacking the immigrant Madurese population.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/indonesia1.html (1720 words)

	Maluku Islands
		As the situation became calmer on islands in the province apart from Ambon, people started to return home in these areas.
		In spite of numerous negotiations and the signing of a peace agreement in February 2002, tensions on Ambon Island remained high until late 2002, when a series of spontaneous 'mixings' between previously hostile groups lead to a sporadic, but generally increasingly stable peace.
		Forced conversion of Christians on remote islands of Kesoui and Teor off Seram causes displacement of 800 families to Southeast Maluku.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/m/ma/maluku_islands.html (1102 words)

	The Malay Archipelago Volume 1 - Chapter XVIII.
		The number of land birds in the island of Celebes is 128, and from these we may, as before, strike out a small number of species which roam over the whole Archipelago (often from India to the Pacific), and which therefore only serve to disguise the peculiarities of individual islands.
		The butterflies of that island are in many cases characterised by a peculiarity of outline, which distinguishes them at a glance from those of any other part of the world.
		I allude to the absence of several groups which are found on both sides of it, in the Indo-Malay islands as well as in the Moluccas; and which thus seem to be unable, from some unknown cause, to obtain a footing in the intervening island.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/geo/travel/TheMalayArchipelagoVolume1/chap22.html (3919 words)

	Armed Conflicts Report - Indonesia-Molucca Islands
		Meanwhile, Indonesian soldiers sent to the Molucca islands were reportedly fighting alongside militant Muslims, leading to calls by Christians for a UN peacekeeping force.
		Meanwhile, reports indicated that Indonesian soldiers sent to the Molucca Islands were fighting alongside militant Muslims, leading to calls by the Christians for a neutral UN peacekeeping force.
		Christians and Muslims have coexisted peacefully in the islands for decades, and religion is unlikely to be the underlying cause of the conflict.
	www.ploughshares.ca /libraries/ACRText/ACR-IndonesiaMolucca.html (4550 words)

	Cloves - Bulk Spices & Herbs from Avon Spice Company
		Cloves are believed to be native to the Molucca Islands of Indonesia.
		Although Indonesia is the largest producer of Cloves, Zanzibar and Madagascar are the major exporters, where Clove trees cover thousands of acres of the islands.
		In the Moluccas, where Cloves were first found, parents planted a Clove tree when a child was born.
	www.avonspice.com /db/Cloves (281 words)

	Spices (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nutmeg is the seed of Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree native to the Molucca Islands.
		Middle Eastern traders brought Nutmeg and mace to Southern Europe in the sixth century, and they were well-known by the twelfth century from Italy to Denmark.
		The Portuguese found Nutmeg trees in the Molucca Islands, and dominated the Nutmeg and mace trade until the Dutch overcame it in 1602.
	www.spiceadvice.com /encyclopedia/Nutmeg.html (311 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Moluccas
		The largest island is Tanahbesar; Dobo, the chief port of the group, is on Wamar, just off Tanahbesar.
		The largest of the Moluccas and irregular in shape, it consists of two intersecting mountain ranges (rising to c.5,000 ft/1,520 m), which form four rocky peninsulas...
		An overseas territory of the Netherlands, it comprised the Malay Archipelago, Sumatra, Java, Borneo (except North Borneo), Sulawesi, Moluccas, and the Lesser Sunda Islands (except Portuguese Timor).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Moluccas&StartAt=11 (664 words)

	Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management - www.mrsbeeton.com
		THE CLOVE.—The clove-tree is a native of the Molucca Islands, particularly Amboyna, and attains the height of a laurel-tree, and no verdure is ever seen under it.
		NUTMEG.—This is a native of the Moluccas, and was long kept from being spread in other places by the monopolizing spirit of the Dutch, who endeavoured to keep it wholly to themselves by eradicating it from every other island.
		The Dutch, as in the case of the nutmeg (see 378), endeavoured, when they gained possession of the Spice Islands, to secure a monopoly of cloves, and, so that the cultivation of the tree might be confined to Amboyna, their chief island, bribed the surrounding chiefs to cut down all trees found elsewhere.
	www.mrsbeeton.com /10-chapter10.html (18445 words)

	Planet Diary Archive 2004 - Earthquake - Powerful Quake Shakes Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Indonesia's Molucca Islands were hit by a strong quake this week.
		The Molucca Islands of eastern Indonesia shook from a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake this week.
		The epicenter of the quake was 74 miles (118 kilometers) northwest of Ambon, the largest city of the Molucca Islands.
	www.phschool.com /science/planetdiary/archive04/eart3013104.html (222 words)

	thewest.com.au : Quake strikes off Indonesia's Moluccas
		A moderate earthquake of 5.9 magnitude hit deep in waters off Indonesia's Molucca islands on Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
		The USGS website said the quake was 320km southeast of Ambon, the major city in the Moluccas, 2,300km east of Jakarta.
		However, he said there were many remote islands in the area and communications could be difficult.
	www.thewest.com.au /aapstory.aspx?StoryName=349307 (136 words)

	Molucca islands PowerPoint Templates & Molucca islands Backgrounds: Search results - Page #1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		These Molucca islands PowerPoint Templates and Molucca islands Backgrounds are a great choice for a wide variety of presentation needs.
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	IFEX :: Journalists receive death threats in the Moluccas
		According to RSF, "issuing death threats to journalists of a Christian publication is a grave deterioration of press freedom in the Indonesian province, which is divided by inter-community conflict".
		Robert Ménard, RSF’s secretary-general, reminded the minister that it was his duty to guarantee that media workers could cover the events and prevent militia from committing killings with impunity, unseen by the Indonesian people and the international community.
		Laskar Jihad took thousands of volunteers to the Molucca Islands to participate in the "holy war" against Christians.
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/10812 (367 words)

	East Timor Factsheet
		East Timor is the eastern part of the island of Timor, which lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
		It is an island in the Indonesian archipelago, located about 400 miles northwest of Australia.
		East Timor became a Portuguese colony in the 16th century, while much of the rest of the region was controlled by the Dutch, and known as the Dutch East Indies.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/easttimor1.html (648 words)

	Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development - Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 210 million inhabitants of this island state belong to roughly 300 different ethnic groups and speak over 200 languages and dialects.
		Consisting of more than 17,000 islands, of which a good 6,000 are inhabited, the country boasts the world's fourth-biggest population and is home to the largest Islamic community on Earth.
		And Indonesia's most recent history has also been marked by hostilities: there was fighting between Christians and Muslims in the Molucca Islands in 1999, a devastating attack by Islamic terrorists on Bali in 2002, and the imposition of martial law in the breakaway province of Aceh on Sumatra in 2003.
	www.bmz.de /en/countries/partnercountries/indonesien/index.html (439 words)

	CNN - Indonesia vote could be delayed, paper says - April 26, 1999
		JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- A plan to split the vast province of Irian Jaya and the violence-wracked Molucca spice islands could result in a delay to the June 7 general election, according to a report on Monday quoting the chief of Indonesia's election commission.
		It also suggested the Moluccas, where hundreds of people have died in religious unrest this year, be split into two provinces.
		The Molucca islands have been ripped apart by months of sectarian violence, among the worst in the history of the predominantly Muslim country.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9904/26/indonesia.01/index.html (498 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Francis Xavier
		Born in the Castle of Xavier near Sanguesa, in Navarre, 7 April, 1506; died on the Island of Sancian near the coast of China, 2 December, 1552.
		About October, 1542, he started for the pearl fisheries of the extreme southern coast of the peninsula, desirous of restoring Christanity which, although introduced years before, had almost disappeared on account of the lack of priests.
		Portuguese vessel at the small island of Sancian near the coast of China.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06233b.htm (1438 words)

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