Island, Indonesia. Located west of Ceram in the western Moluccas, it measures some 90 mi (145 km) long and 50 mi (80 km) wide.
Namlea, the chief town, lies on a narrow coastal plain. It was taken by the Dutch in the mid-17th century and became part of Indonesia after World War II. Indonesia used Buru for a prison camp following the 1965 attempted coup; most of the prisoners had been freed by 1980.
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