Buru

Proper noun

Meaning

An island in the Maluku islands

A language of the island.

A language of Nigeria.

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Phrases with the word

Examples

Austronesian peoples added to the native Melanesian population around 2000 BCE. citation Melanesian features are strongest in the islands of Kei and Aru and amongst the interior people of Seram and Buru islands. Source: Internet

Logging is a significant industry on the larger islands with Seram producing ironwood and teak and ebony are produced on Buru. Source: Internet

After being held at various prisons in Jakarta, he was sent to Buru in 1971 alongside 12,000 others. Source: Internet

And it survives throughout the final decades of his life, following his release from Buru, when he stopped writing altogether but never ceased to reflect on the official distortions of history imposed in Indonesia under the New Order. Source: Internet

The production of rice in Buru, and particularly the broader goal to make the island an eastern hub in Indonesia’s quest for self-sufficiency in rice, cannot be separated from Buru’s history as a prison camp. Source: Internet

Released (under surveillance) with the last of Indonesia’s political prisoners to be returned from Buru. Source: Internet

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