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Pulau Roni

Pulau Roni is a 0.42 km² tropical island in the Halmahera Sea, East Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia, at 0.9925° N, 127.9292° E; distinct from Pulau Reni, Pulau Rani, and Pulau Roon.

Pulau Sanana

Pulau Sanana (Sulabesi) is the smallest of the three main Sula Islands in North Maluku, Indonesia, and seat of Kepulauan Sula Regency; town of Sanana, Dutch fort of 1793, 284 km by sea from Ternate.

Pulau Simeulue

Pulau Simeulue, or Simeulue Island, is an Indonesian island about 100 km long off northwest Sumatra, part of Aceh Province and first landfall of the December 2004 tsunami.

Pulau Sorenarwa

Pulau Sorenarwa (Sorenarwa, also listed as Pulau Yapen or Japen Island) is an island in Biak Numfor Regency, Papua, Indonesia, at 1°44′S 136°10′E, elevation 313 m, near the Selat Sorenarwa strait.

Pulau Sulawesi

Pulau Sulawesi (Sulawesi Island) is Indonesia's K-shaped eleventh-largest island, assembled at the Eurasian, Indo-Australian, and Pacific plate junction from collided arcs, ophiolites, and Australian-derived continental fragments, with highly endemic Wallacean fauna.

Pulau Taliabu

Pulau Taliabu: large island and regency (Kabupaten Pulau Taliabu) in North Maluku, Indonesia, split from Kepulauan Sula in 2013; Banggai-Sula microcontinent, 4.4 TCF gas basin, seat Bobong.

Pulau Tebing Tinggi

Pulau Tebing Tinggi (Tebing Tinggi Island, Pulau Rantau) is an island in the Strait of Malacca, Meranti Islands Regency, Riau, Indonesia, east of Padang Island; a sago and peatland island with subdistricts Tebing Tinggi, Barat, and Timur.

Pulau Waigeo

Pulau Waigeo is the largest of the Raja Ampat Islands in West Papua, Indonesia, settled over 50,000 years ago and home to the regency capital Waisai.

Pulau Waraten

Pulau Waraten (Poelau Waraten) is a small island in Maluku, Indonesia, near the Aru Islands locality Dosi, at 5°56′46″S 134°35′55″E, elevation 21 m, GeoNames ID 12066475.

Pulau Wawonii

Pulau Wawonii (Wawonii Island), an island off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, coterminous with Konawe Islands Regency; homeland of the Wawonii people, known for coconut-derived name, copra economy, and nickel-mining resistance won in court.

Pulau Yamdena

Pulau Yamdena (Jamdena) is the largest island of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands in Maluku, between the Banda and Arafura Seas: a flat coral island 64 miles long, with Saumlaki as its main port.

Sangihe Islands

Sangihe Islands (Kepulauan Sangihe), an Indonesian island chain and regency in North Sulawesi between Sulawesi and Mindanao: 105 islands, capital Tahuna, the 500 km Sangihe volcanic arc colliding with Halmahera, and deadly Awu volcano.

Selayar Island

Selayar Island (Pulau Selayar), a roughly 80 km long island off southern South Sulawesi, Indonesia; main island of Selayar Islands Regency, historic cotton and spice-trade hub, home of the world's largest Dongson bronze drum, and gateway to Taka Bonerate National Park, the world's third-largest atoll.

Seram Island

Seram Island (Nusa Ina, Mother Island), largest island of Indonesia's Maluku province at about 17,100 km2, site of the Nunusaku origin legend, Manusela National Park, and the producing Seram hydrocarbon basin.

Siberut

Siberut, the largest and northernmost Mentawai Island off western Sumatra, Indonesia; 4,480 km², indigenous Mentawai majority, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1981, four endemic primates, and a locked megathrust section last ruptured in 1797.

Simeulue

Simeulue is an Indonesian island about 150 kilometers off the west coast of Sumatra and the seat of a regency in Aceh province, centered on Sinabang.

Singkep Island

Singkep Island (Pulau Singkep) is a 757-square-kilometer island in Indonesia's Lingga Archipelago, Riau Islands Province, separated from Sumatra by the Berhala Strait and known for its tin mining era.

Sipura Island

Sipura (Sipora) Island, Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia: smallest of the four main Mentawai islands, site of Tuapejat regency capital, surf breaks like Lance's Right, and high northern tsunami vulnerability.

South Pagai

South Pagai, Indonesian Pulau Pagai Selatan, is the southernmost of the four main inhabited Mentawai Islands off Sumatra, Indonesia, and was struck by a deadly tsunami in 2010.

Talaud Islands

Talaud Islands (Kepulauan Talaud), Indonesia's northernmost regency in North Sulawesi, capital Melonguane; three main islands Karakelang, Salibabu, Kabaruan; borders Mindanao, Philippines; created 2002; seismically active border region.

Taliabu

Taliabu (Pulau Taliabu) is an Indonesian island in North Maluku Province and the largest of the Sula Islands, covering 2,997.35 km²; its regency, separated from the Sula Islands Regency in 2012, began operating in 2013.

Tanimbar Islands

The Tanimbar Islands are a group of islands in the Moluccas, Maluku Province, Indonesia, with Yamdena the largest, known for endemic birds such as the Tanimbar corella.

Wetar

Pulau Wetar (Wetar Island), Indonesian island in the Inner Banda Arc, Southwest Maluku, near Timor; volcanic, sparsely populated, historic VOC-Topass rivalry, gold-rich VMS deposits, and the Wetar Copper Mine.

Yos Sudarso Island

Kolepom, also called Pulau Yos Sudarso or Dolak, is a large Indonesian island off the south coast of New Guinea, separated from the mainland by the Muli Strait.