Buru Island (Operational Navigation Chart, 1967) Not for navigational use

Buru is an island in the Maluku (Indonesian province) province of Indonesia. It is located west of Ambon and Seram. The chief port and town is Namlea on the northeastern coast. Download high resolution version (1057x797, 148 KB)Buru Island (Operational Navigation Chart) original scale 1:1,000,000. ... Download high resolution version (1057x797, 148 KB)Buru Island (Operational Navigation Chart) original scale 1:1,000,000. ... Categories: Indonesia geography stubs | Provinces of Indonesia ... The number of provinces of Indonesia has tended to increase as new provinces have been split from existing territories. ... Ceram and Ambon Islands (Operational Navigation Chart, 1967) Not for navigational use Ambon City in 2001, showing heavy damage from fighting Ambon Island is part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. ... Seram (formerly Ceram, also called Seran or Serang) is an island in the Maluku province of Indonesia. ...

Geography

At 9,505 km² (3,670 sq mi), Buru is the third-largest island in the Maluku Islands. The center of the island is mountainous, with a flat coastal plain where about eighty percent of its approximately 100,000 inhabitants live. The highest point is on Gunung Kaplamada at 2729 m (8950 ft). This page is about the geography and history of the island group in Indonesia — for the political entities encompassing the islands, see Maluku (Indonesian province) and North Maluku. ...

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Culture

Buru islanders recognize a clear distinction between the majority coastal people and the smaller number of mountain-dwellers. The population of the coastal region is generally Islamic, and about one third is considered indigenous, while the rest are immigrants. In the local understanding, however, immigrants are defined broadly, because many have lived on Buru for many generations since moving from other islands in Maluku. There is also a population of Javanese transmigrants who have moved to the island since the 1960s. The smaller mountain-dwelling population differs from the coastal peoples in that they are not Muslim, and have limited social interactions with the coastal people and outside of the island. Islam (Arabic al-islām الإسلام,  listen) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith and the worlds second-largest religion. ... Javanese language is the spoken language of the people in the central and eastern part of the island of Java, in Indonesia. ... Indonesias Transmigration program was an initiative to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia to less populous areas of the archipelago. ...

History

Before Dutch colonization, Buru was within the kingdom of Ternate's sphere of influence. The island was occupied by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1658. The colonizers forcibly moved a large part of the population from their interior villages to the coastal plain, where they could be more closely controlled. In the nineteenth century, as the VOC was replaced by formal Dutch government control, the Dutch appointed native leaders, called raja on Buru, to manage the island for them. A 1720 depiction of Ternate. ... This article is about the trading company. ...

Buru became a part of Indonesia upon the nation's independence in 1950. During President Suharto's administration (1965-1998), the island was the site of a large prison camp holding alleged communists and other dissidents. By 1977, about fourteen thousand prisoners were held on the island. The most famous of the inmates was author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who composed the stories that became his Buru Quartet, by telling them orally to other prisoners. 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... General Soeharto (commonly known as Suharto in the English-speaking world) (born June 8, 1921) was an Indonesian leader and military strongman. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Pramoedya Ananta Toer is widely considered as one of the most prolific authors in the history of Indonesian literature. ...

See also: Islands of Indonesia Indonesia is an archipelago made of 18,108 islands, according to satellite images. ...

References

• Grimes, Barbara Dix (1994). Buru inside out. In: Visser, L.E., ed. Halmahera and beyond. Leiden: KITLV Press. p.59-78. ISBN 9067180726.

External link

Buru rain forests (World Wildlife Fund) (http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0104_full.html)