From The Jakarta Post, captain recently commanded the Borobudur Samudraraksa, a ship designed based on reliefs from the Borobudur Temple in Central Java, to retrace the cinnamon route taken by Indonesian merchants in the eighth century to sell spices to Africa.

A scholarly and up-to-date book on Borobudur, the magnificent and little known temple situated in the centre of Java, close to the Merapi and Merbabu volcanoes some forty kilometres from Yogyakarta.

Asian Perspectives 41(1). The study uses European drawn maps dating from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, and archaeological data from four sites on the islands of Banda Naira, Banda Besar, and Pulau Ay dating from A.D. 500-1700.

From Sydney Morning Herald, she was tall and strong and in her late 20s when she died about 18,000 years ago

Peter Lape describes his PhD archaeology research project in the Banda Islands of eastern Indonesia. Includes current information on the islands maps, links.