According to sources in Ambon, these battalions have been utilised because the army is short-handed. |
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We're here in Ambon City, the capital of the Moluccas Island, and the extent of the destruction here is devastating. |
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A diving photographer looms over a spectacular sea garden off the coast of Ambon, an island in a far-flung corner of eastern Indonesia. |
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His promises to subdue the militia in West Timor and restore law and order in Ambon are nothing but hot air. |
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Ambon city divides into patchworks of guarded religious enclaves. |
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Ambon city is on the northwest of Leitimor, facing Hitoe, and has a safe harbor on Amboina Bay. |
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Wild areas of Ambon Island are covered by tropical rainforest, part of the Seram rain forests ecoregion, together with neighboring Seram. |
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Under the Dutch Empire, Ambon city was the seat of the Dutch resident and military commander of the Moluccas. |
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Between 1999 and 2002, Ambon was at the centre of sectarian conflict across the Maluku Islands. |
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It is located just north of smaller Ambon Island and a few other surrounding islands, such as Haruku, Geser, Nusalaut, Banda and Saparua. |
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Malay pilots guided the expedition east via Java and along the Lesser Sundas before steering them north to Banda via Ambon. |
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Their inadvertent rescuers were then forced to take them to Ambon, where they disembarked in Hitu. |
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In 1607, Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge sent Janzoon to Ambon and Banda. |
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This year's Yacht Rally is officially organized by Sail Indonesia, Back to Down Under Rally and Darwin Ambon Yacht Race. |
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Examples on Java include the capital Jakarta and Bandung, outside Java examples include Ambon and Menado city. |
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The largest two islands, Halmahera and Seram are sparsely populated, while the most developed, Ambon and Ternate are small. |
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It lies between the Banda Sea to the south and Seram Sea to the north, west of Ambon and Seram islands. |
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In 1604, a second English East India Company voyage commanded by Sir Henry Middleton reached the islands of Ternate, Tidore, Ambon and Banda. |
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In 1605, the Duyfken was in the fleet that recaptured the fort of Van Verre at Ambon in the Spice Islands, from the Portuguese. |
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That year, ten English factors, resident in the Dutch fortress of Victoria on Ambon were executed by beheading on accusations of treason. |
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Last month, Cambodia rescued 230 trafficked laborers from Thai fishing vessels operating from the Indonesian island of Ambon. |
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Were the ethnic conflicts in Sambas and Ambon the result of the same set of factors? |
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The capital of the remaining part of Maluku province remains at Ambon. |
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An air traffic controller in Ambon had received the threat via text message as the plane headed toward its intended destination of Jakarta, he said. |
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The epicenter was 250 km northeast of Kepulauan Baratdaya Regency, Maluku province, 367 km from Maluku's capital Ambon with a depth of 40 km under the sea. |
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They are Sultan Hassanudin airport, Pattimura airport of Ambon, Lombok International Airport, Sam Ratulangi airport of Manado and Adi Sumarmo airport of Solo. |
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The Putri Ayu boat was traveling from Maluku's provincial capital, Ambon, to the nearby island of Buru when it capsized after being battered by a 3-metre-high wave. |
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The Portuguese first landed in Ambon in 1513, but it only became the new centre for their activities in Maluku following the expulsion from Ternate. |
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From 27 April until 18 May there were CIA air raids on Ambon city. |
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The sultans of Tidore ruled most of southern Halmahera, and, at times, controlled Buru, Ambon and many of the islands off the coast of New Guinea. |
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Together with Walter Hicks, an Australian POW at Ambon, Weiss decided to write to Ikeuchi's widow to express his sorrow at what had happened over fifty years ago. |
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In 1512, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to land in Ambon, and it became the new centre for Portuguese activities in Maluku following their expulsion from Ternate. |
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In December his ships arrived in Bantam, but sailed on to Ambon. |
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Ambon Island lies off the southwest coast of the much larger Seram island. |
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