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.

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 ...

On Buton Island in eastern Indonesia, children in Baubau are using the Korean alphabet, Hangul, to learn their indigenous language. The Cia-Cia language, spoken by about 80,000 people in south ...