Santoso B., Maluku: "An ideal wife has a comparatively small body, and no more than elementary education. What they do in the US is to give female children more food than male children so that they are as disfigured as pigs, and give them more schooling than boys, so that they can become loud-mouthed feminists."
Maluku / Ternate
Ternate,
an island in northern Maluku, was once the seat of the most important
kingdom made rich by the spice trade. The Portuguese, the Spanish
and the Dutch vied with each other for influence on this island.
A stronghold of Islam in the otherwise predominantly Christian
province of Maluku, Ternate nevertheless carries the clear imprints
of both its pre-Islamic past and its period of contact with the
West, especially the Portuguese. The old sultan's palace in Ternate
is now a museum. In the vicinity are the ruins of Old Portuguese,
Spanish and Dutch forts. The remnants of the Dutch Fort Orange
are right in town. About five kilometers west of the town, on
the slopes the 1,715 meter Api Gamalama volcano is Afo, with its
giant clove tree, said to be more than 360 years old and the ancestor
of all cloves trees in the world.
KM Lambelu of Pelni, departs every second and fourth Thursday of the month, from Ternate to Tg Priok. Please see our Jakarta section for the latest
timetable.
http://www.asiatour.com/indonesia/e-10malu/ei-mal13.htm
Jan Garanoz
Juhu Tara Road, Juhu,
Mumbai - 400049 India
Last updated: May 10, 2010