Members of a tribe on Buton Island, Indonesia, have a rare condition known as Waardenburg Syndrome, which affects pigmentation. It gives them incredibly rare electric blue eyes.

On Buton Island in Indonesia, a rare genetic disorder called Waardenburg Syndrome has led to a high prevalence of striking blue eyes among the Buton tribe. While these eyes are visually ...

The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, the Korean script.

An indigenous tribe on an Indonesian island who have uniquely piercing blue eyes due to a genetic fluke have been captured in a stunning set of photographs. The Buton people are from Indonesia ...

The Cia-Cia, a tribe in remote Indonesia, is adopting Korea's Hangul writing system, to preserve their spoken language with the help of the South Korean government.

The tribe, which numbers 60,000 people, is centered in Bau-Bau, a town on Buton Island off southeastern Sulawesi.

SORAWOLIO, Indonesia -- In an elementary school here on the remote Indonesian island of Buton, a teacher named Abidin recently began to show students how to write their endangered native language ...

SEOUL: For members of an Indonesian tribe visiting Seoul for the first time, the winter cold was beyond belief, the high-tech gadgets seemed to come from another world yet the language was eerily ...

A Korean language institute has resumed teaching the Korean alphabet, or Hangeul, to the Cia Cia, an Indonesian ethnic minority, the institute’s chairman said Thursday.

Students of the Cia-Cia tribe on Indonesia's Buton Island learn how to write with Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, in this file photo released by Kyobo Life Insurance. (Kyobo Life Insurance) King ...