The headquarters for the Islamic Protection Front (FPI) seems more like a Club Med resort than a command center for anti-Christian warriors on the Moluccan Islands. Abu Bakar Wahid, the FPI's leader, ...

Hundreds of years ago, in a cramped cave, Indigenous people in Australia painted a pair of watercraft whose origins have puzzled archaeologists since the artworks' discovery about 50 years ago. Now, a ...

Dutch-sponsored researcher Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta analysed the dynamics of the conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Molucca Islands. The anthropologist proposes that rituals play an ...

Update: On August 16, the two other political prisoners, Jonathan Riri and Pieter Johannes, were also transferred to Ambon prison. Indonesian authorities have moved six Moluccan political prisoners ...

Christian and Muslim leaders from Indonesia's eastern Moluccan Islands have signed a peace deal to end three years of bloodshed. The two sides have been meeting on neighbouring Sulawesi Island, where ...

The Indonesian military has announced plans to withdraw thousands of troops from the Moluccan Islands. A military spokesman said sectarian violence between the Christian and Muslim communities in the ...

Update: On February 6, 2019, Ruben Saija, a Moluccan political prisoner, was released from Ambon prison after President Joko Widodo issued him a pardon. Five political prisoners remain incarcerated in ...

Police used tear gas outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Friday to disperse protesters wanting international support for independence for remote Irian Jaya. But 2,400 miles away in the restive ...