Buru

American  

[boor-oo] / ˈbʊər u /

noun

1. an island of E Indonesia: one of the Molucca Islands.

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Example Sentences

The manager of Buru Niouman, Youssef Sogoba, explains that the bakery is responsible for buying the motorbikes that make the rounds each morning, loaded with hundreds of loaves of bread.

From BBC

In one Buru Island area, stem borers had damaged more than 83% of the clove plantations—an area of more than 2,200 acres, the university scientists found in their research two years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

He says the minister was particularly concerned by the rapid destruction and widespread use of mercury by miners on remote Buru Island, the site of a former prison in the Moluccas Islands where a gold rush has drawn many thousands of miners since 2012.

From National Geographic

“It’s not small-scale when you look at Buru Island,” he says.

From National Geographic

Benedict Anderson of Cornell University, a luminary of South-East Asian studies who has recently died, called him “Indonesia’s most original living writer of novels and short stories”, and proclaimed him a successor to Pramoedya Ananta Toer, author of the social-realist “Buru Quartet”, and the man many consider to be Indonesia’s greatest-ever novelist.

From Economist