The dinghy glides across the 100 metres that separate the islands of Banda Neira and Banda Api, and moors under the flanks of the cone-shaped Gunung Api, “fire mountain” in Bahasa Indonesia. My ...

Good thing the Abui tribe no longer headhunts. Although on Indonesia’s remote Alor island, a village elder menacingly pointed a rustic bow and arrow at me, his time-etched face stoic and his white ...

AT MIDNIGHT on my last night in eastern Indonesia’s Spice Islands, I sat on a sea wall with my feet hanging over the waters of the Banda Sea. Behind me, the veranda of Hotel Maulana, on the island of ...

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Banda Sea near Indonesia’s Maluku Islands on Tuesday, according to the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ). The quake occurred at a depth of 137 km.