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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 ...

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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Police are suspected of receiving bribes from the family of a suspect in illegal gold mining on Mount Botak, Buru Island, Maluku. The Maluku Regional Police are currently ...

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 ...

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 ...