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Maluku, a group of islands within the Indonesian archipelago, [1] has a variety of culture and customs expressed in music, tools, languages, dance, and art. [ 2 ] Kalwedo
Sawat is a blend of Maluku culture and Middle Eastern culture. In a few centuries ago, the Arabs came to spread Islam in Maluku, then there was a mixture of cultures including music. It is evident in several Sawat musical instruments, such as Tambourines and Flutes that characterize Arabian music instruments.
North Maluku is predominantly Muslim, and its capital is Sofifi on Halmahera island. Maluku province has a larger Christian population, and its capital is Ambon. Though originally Melanesian, [4] many island populations especially in the Banda Islands, were massacred in the 17th century during the Dutch–Portuguese War, also known as the Spice ...
Moluccans are the Austronesian-speaking and Papuan-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands (also called the Moluccas), Eastern Indonesia. The region was historically known as the Spice Islands, [4] and today consists of two Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku. As such, "Moluccans" is used as a blanket term for the ...
Maluku Islands, an archipelago that is part of Indonesia . List of the Maluku Islands; Maluku (province), a province of Indonesia comprising the central and southern parts of the archipelago
Pre-1999 Maluku (L) and Irian Jaya (now Papua, R) with present-day regency borders Provinces in Western New Guinea , after the split of Papua Province into four provinces in June 2022 [ 25 ] and after the split of West Papua Province into two provinces in December 2022 [ 26 ]
The history of the entry of ethnic Chinese into Indonesia in general cannot be ascertained well as with their arrival in the Maluku Islands, even if there are sources that prove the arrival of ethnic Chinese, mostly from stories from the local community and also from some evidence of inheritance from Chinese descendants who are still there and ...
The Ambonese are from Ambon Island in Maluku, an island group east of Sulawesi and north of Timor in Indonesia. They also live on the southwest of Seram Island; which is part of the Moluccas, Java, New Guinea; on the West Papua side and other regions of Indonesia. Additionally, there are about 35,000 Ambonese people living in the Netherlands. [3]