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Southwest Maluku Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Maluku Barat Daya) is a regency of Maluku Province, Indonesia.Geographically it forms the most eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, although it has never been administratively included with them, and politically has always comprised a part of the Maluku Province.
Madura Island (Indonesian: Pulau Madura, Madurese: Polo Madhurâ; [pɔlɔ ˈmaʈʰurɤ], Pèghu: ڤولو مادْوراْ , Carakan: ꦥꦺꦴꦭꦺꦴꦩꦢꦸꦫ) is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java.
The Tanimbar Islands, also called Timur Laut, are a group of about 65 islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia. The largest and most central of the islands is Yamdena ; others include Selaru to the southwest of Yamdena, Larat and Fordata to the northeast, Maru and Molu to the north, and Seira, Wuliaru , Selu, Wotap and Makasar to the west.
East Nusa Tenggara (Indonesian: Nusa Tenggara Timur) is the southernmost province of Indonesia.It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the north.
Alor (Indonesian: Pulau Alor) is the largest island in the Alor Archipelago and is one of the 92 officially listed outlying islands of Indonesia.It is located at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain that runs through southeastern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, and Flores.
The eastern salient of Java (Indonesian: ujung timur, [2] "eastern end" or Tapal Kuda, [3] "The Horseshoe" – referring to the region's shape on the map; Javanese: bang wetan, [4] "far east", Dutch: Oosthoek, [4] "eastern corner") is a region that makes up the easternmost part of the island of Java, Indonesia. It is not a formal or ...
Under a presidential decree in 2005, Indonesia has categorised 92 geographically isolated and distant islands as pulau terluar or "outlying islands". [1] 67 of them are close to a neighbouring country, and 28 are inhabited. [2]
During the last stages of the Dutch colonial era, the area east of Java and Kalimantan was known as the Great East and later known as Eastern Indonesia. After Denpasar Conference , on 24 December 1946, the State of East Indonesia was formed covering the same area, excluding Western New Guinea , previously included during Malino Conference .