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Camera traps have snapped the babirusa “deer-pig,” a type of tusked wild swine, on an island in Indonesia where they hadn’t been observed in more than a quarter of a century. Locals on Buru Island had ...
A strong earthquake triggers a tsunami. Three people die and a village is swept away. News reported only today. Ambon (AsiaNews) A seven-metre (24 ft) wave hit last Tuesday Buru, an island belonging ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake with a 6.0 magnitude struck south of Buru Island in the Moluccas Islands province in eastern Indonesia, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysical agency ...
The prisoners were put to hard labour on Buru, clearing jungle land for paddy fields such as this one shown here Buru Island in East Indonesia was once home to 12,000 political prisoners, suspected ...
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An insider’s illustrations and narration sheds new light on the dark history of a prison camp on Buru Island in Maluku. Mars Noersmono might have a lean physique, grey hair and slightly trembling ...
Buru Island in East Indonesia was once home to 12,000 political prisoners, suspected communist sympathisers sent to toil there during the rule of President Suharto from the late 1960s. It became known ...