Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Jan 1, 2026, for the 8th time in a week. PVMBG has issued a Level II (Alert) ...

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Dec 25, 2025, its 13th eruption in a week. PVMBG advises a 2 km no-activity zone.

We were 45 metres up, precariously perched on a platform in the rainforest canopy, looking north towards West Papua as the early morning mist cleared to reveal the shimmering coastline. “They arrested ...

The Maluku Islands in Indonesia will protect more swaths of their seas this year, following from the designation of five marine protected areas in 2022 alone. The new protected areas will cover the ...

NORTH MALUKU, Indonesia: It was a quarter past eight in the evening but Mdm Imah Fatmalati still had a job to complete before calling it a day. The 39-year-old Indonesian was busy sewing a shirt in a ...

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! Maluku Islands province is ...

Yogi Vidyattama does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

AMBON, Indonesia -- The rugged, aquamarine-fringed Maluku Islands, once known as the Moluccas or the Spice Islands, are among the least visited of Indonesia's roughly 17,500 islands. Scattered like ...

Almost two years of relative peace in south Maluku’s capital was broken when a hard-line group of Christian separatists, known as RMS, raised their independence flag and marked the anniversary of ...

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! hree activists in Maluku ...