The exotic pet industry is booming, fuelled by global demand for rare parrots, reptiles and other wild creatures — but in ...

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The governments of Riau Islands, Central Java, Lampung, and North Maluku initiated a provincial-level collaboration to ...

The plan to provide rice aid for Palestine is partly supported by Indonesia’s success in securing more than 4 million tonnes of rice reserves, the highest amount recorded in 57 years.

Prabowo cancels four mining permits in Raja Ampat, but concerns remain over nickel exploitation on Gag Island and other small ...

A report last week by Climate Rights International alleged the Indonesian government was allowing environmental damage and ...

Over 500 hectares of forest and native vegetation have been cleared for nickel mines on the islands of Gag, Kawe and Manuran ...

THE NUMBER More than a thousand islands, more properly the Maluku Islands or Moluccas, occupy 700,000 square kilometres of Banda Sea. SEE AND DO In the 15th century, the European race for cinnamon ...

He wrote in 1876 that the animals here showed “affinities” to Africa, India, Java, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, and the Philippines. Why do Sulawesi have species from both sides of the line ...

During past centuries, European traders were drawn to the Maluku Islands, 1700km east of Bali, by aromatic spices that were worth their weight in gold. First came Portuguese sailors, then the Dutch.