“The Maluku Islands are an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located east of Sulawesi, west of New Guinea, and north and east of Timor. Lying within Wallacea, the Maluku islands have been considered part of both Asia and Oceania.”

“Australo-Melanesians were the first people to inhabit the Maluku at least 40,000 years ago, and then a later migration of Austronesian speakers around 2000 BC but there is no explanation about this more specific. Maluku People is different from Papuan people, it is believe that they are native of Seram Island and Halmahera Island.”

“The ecology of the Maluku Islands has fascinated naturalists for centuries; Alfred Wallace's book, The Malay Archipelago, was the first significant study of the area's natural history, and remains an important resource for studying Indonesian biodiversity. Maluku is the subject of two major historical works of natural history by Georg Eberhard Rumphius: the Herbarium Amboinense and the Amboinsche Rariteitkamer.”