Click here for more information about Brown University, or Brown's Department of Anthropology .

To sign up to participate in other scientific research projects world-wide, check out Earthwatch's web site. Sorry, we have completed field work in Banda for now.

The Banda Islands are scheduled to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in the year 2000, and will be Indonesia's first "dual function" (natural and cultural site). Look at their web site for updates, and information on World Heritage conservation. One of their pages has the results of a coral reef study from Banda.

Phillip Winn is a doctoral student at The Australian National University who is the only socio-cultural anthropologist to have conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the islands to date. Contact him at pwinn@coombs.anu.edu.au. ANU's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies maintains a useful web site. This site maintained by Archaeology World at ANU also has excellent links to archaeology projects in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The University of Wisconsin at Madison's Southeast Asian Studies Dept. has an excellent site with links to many Indonesia oriented sites.

For the latest news about Indonesia (much of it not so good, lately), check out Asiagateway, Kompas or the BBC-Asia Pacific news sites.

Photographer Jez O'Hare flys around Indonesia and the Pacific in a portable fold-up plane taking incredible photos. Have an enjoyable browse through Jez's web site (note: this site seems to be defunct--no new address available). Andrew Lawless, who served as the staff photographer on the project, and took many of the photos on the site, is now making a documentary film about Banda and the unique place of history there. He can be reached at lawandrew@aol.com.

This Dutch web site describes the last private nutmeg plantation owner in Banda, Wim Van dem Broeke, as well as a wealth of other information and links to Indonesian and "Indo" (Dutch/Indonesian mix) culture. Sadly, Wim passed away in February 1999, and even more tragically, most of his family was massacred at their home on Banda Besar during violent riots in April 1999. The Van dem Broeke web site has the news of this tragedy.

This site has more information about traveling to the Maluku province of Indonesia. Visit this site for more information about scuba diving in Banda's coral seas (and other parts of the Pacific).

The 17th century Dutch ship the Duyfken visited Banda on its way to "discover" Australia. Visit this site to learn more about a replica of the ship that was recently launched at the Western Australia Maritime Museum. Follow Tim Severin's voyage along A.R. Wallace's route through the Spice Islands in a traditional Indonesian boat.

Great contemporary maps of Indonesia in Peter Loud's map site. The James Ford Bell library at the University of Minnesota has a searchable database for antique maps of the world, many on-line. Thomas Suarez is a private map dealer and author of early Mapping of Southeast Asia (Periplus 1999) with an excellent web site at www.cosmography.com.

For information about environmental projects in Indonesia, check out the Nature Conservancy, BP Conservation, or World Wildlife Fund-Indonesia. The Coastal Resources Research Network (CoRR) is a Canadian organization dedicated to small island and coastal reseource management and research. Have a look at their newsletter and links page.

Our logo is a drawing of a nutmeg fruit, split open to reveal the inner nut (the actual nutmeg spice) and the fibrous bright red mace surrounding it. Look at this botanical website for more information about nutmeg and other spices