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Moluccas
This Website was created to
inform the world about the history & daily life in the Moluccas
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Map Moluccas
The Map on the right shows where The Moluccas is situated
It consists about 1000 islands.
In the 1500's The Moluccas also known as the Spice Islands
Drawed Attention To many Europeans
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Flag Moluccas
The Moluccas Today is the 2nd most eastern province of East-Indonesia.
Geographically it's a part of Melanesia and lies next to Papua Province (West-Papua) Above Australia and right from Timor Leste.
It hasn't always been a part of Indonesia.
In 1950 they proclaimed independence on the Island of ''Ambon'' but were shortly invaded by a mass of Indonesian army troops.
(Atleast 8000 Victims fell in the Struggle for independence)
The Flag is a political symbol that was used & Introduced in 1950 to express their will of Freedom.
In 1950 tough been invaded they moved the struggle to the island of Seram where they fought a guerilla against Indonesia untill 1963.
''They were promised freedom by the Dutch in 1946.''
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Loyalty
The Moluccans were the most loyal soldiers to the Dutch.
As a result they were called anjing belanda by Indonesians mainly from the islands of Java which stands for Dog of the Dutch or Belanda hitam which stands for black
dutchmen.
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