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Ambon Bay Festival (Indonesian: Festival Teluk Ambon) is an annual event held at Ambon Bay and across West Seram Regency, Maluku, Indonesia at the end of September. [1] The festival aims to promote national and international tourism to the Maluku Islands . [ 2 ]
Doa Putra Ebal Johan "Utha" Likumahuwa (1 August 1955 – 13 September 2011) was an Indonesian singer from Ambon, Maluku. He rose to fame in Indonesia in the 1980s with his albums Nada & Apresiasi (1982) and the song "Tersiksa Lagi". [1]
Ambon was a center of Christian missionary activity, and Ambon and the surrounding islands have many Christians as well as the Muslims that predominate in most of Indonesia. On 22 December 1902, the Apostolic Prefecture of Dutch New Guinea was established in the city, later to be promoted as the Diocese of Amboina .
The largest city and capital of Maluku province is Ambon on the small Ambon Island. It is directly adjacent to North Maluku , Southwest Papua , and West Papua in the north, Central Sulawesi , and Southeast Sulawesi in the west, Banda Sea , Australia , East Timor and East Nusa Tenggara in the south and Arafura Sea , Central Papua and South Papua ...
Ambonese Malay or simply Ambonese is a Malay-based creole language spoken on Ambon Island in the Maluku Islands of Eastern Indonesia.It was first brought by traders from Western Indonesia, then developed when the Dutch Empire colonised the Maluku Islands and was used as a tool by missionaries in Eastern Indonesia.
Moluccans are the Austronesian and Ambonese Malay-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.
During the independence movement of Indonesia, Indonesian republicans included South Maluku as part of the independent Indonesia they declared in 1945. Indonesia's struggle to secure its independence lasted from 1945 until 1949. After international pressure, the Dutch acknowledged a federal Indonesian republic on 27 December 1949.
Ambon Island is part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The island has an area of 743.37 km 2 (287.02 sq mi) and is mountainous, well watered, and fertile. Ambon Island consists of two territories: the city of Ambon to the south, and three districts ( kecamatan ) of the Central Maluku Regency to the north.