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Riau Archipelago

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Ri·au Archipelago  (rou)
An island group of western Indonesia off the southeast end of the Malay Peninsula. It is separated from Singapore by Singapore Strait.


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Not only that, it is just a quick ferry trip to the key islands of the Riau archipelago of Indonesia.
The fires, which have been blamed on large plantation owners and small farmers clearing land by burning during the current dry season, have sent haze to parts of Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and Indonesia's Riau archipelago, said Mary Chin, a spokeswoman for the Agency.
West Borneo forms the eastern side of a roughly triangular maritime crossroads, linking eastern Sumatra, Johore and the Riau Archipelago on the west and northwest with Java on the south, a region comprising, in short, the central heartland of historical Indon-Malay civilization.
 
 
 
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