Buru
| Buru | ||
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| Waters | Banda Lake , Seram Lake | |
| Archipelago | Moluccas | |
| Geographical location | 3 ° 24 ′ S , 126 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| surface | 8th 473 km² | |
| Highest elevation |
Gunung Kaplamada 2729 m |
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| Residents | 124,000 15 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Namlea | |
Buru is a heavily forested Indonesian island and belongs to the Moluccas group of islands .
geography
In the east are the neighboring islands of Seram and Ambon , the separating sea strait is called Manipa Street ( Selat Manipa ). In the southeast is the small island of Ambelau ( Ambalau ). Buru is 8,473 km² and is inhabited by about 124,000 people.
Buru is divided into two administrative districts ( Kabupaten ) of the Maluku province : Buru with the capital Namlea in the northeast of the island and Southern Buru ( Buru Selatan ) with the capital Namrole on the south coast. The highest point is the Gunung Kaplamada with a height of 2729 m in the west of the island.
Population and economy
The indigenous population (Buru, Kayeli, Lisela) now mainly settle inland; Sulanese , Arabs and Chinese live on the coast . The cultivation of sugar cane , spices and coconut palms are important branches of the economy .
fauna
The Moluccan deer boar ( Babyrousa babyrussa ) lives on Buru and is otherwise only found on the islands of Mangole and Taliabu . The burute dove is a species of green dove found only on this island .
history
The island was mentioned for the first time in 1365, the Dutch colonial era began in 1658, the name was written "Boeroe". In 1915 Buru was assigned to the Afdeeling (department) Ambonia within the administration of the Dutch East Indies and formed the Onderafdeeling (subdivision) B. The island was connected to Ambon, Makassar , Ternate and Sanana by ships of the Dutch KPM .
At the start of President Suharto's “New Order” in the late 1960s and 1970s, Buru served as a prison island serving thousands of political prisoners , including the writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
- ↑ Babyrousa babyrussa in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011.2. Posted by: AA Macdonald, J. Burton, K. Leus, 2008. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ↑ Treron aromaticus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2014 Posted by: BirdLife International, 2014. Accessed November 26, 2016th
- ^ Map with shipping connections in the eastern part of the Dutch East Indies, 1915
