Alifuru people
Alfur, Alfurs, Alfuros, Alfures, Aliforoes, Alifuru or Horaforas (in Dutch, Alfoeren) people is a broad term recorded at the time of the Portuguese seaborne empire to refer all the non-Muslim, non-Christian peoples living in inaccessible areas of the interior in the eastern portion of Maritime Southeast Asia, mainly from the Arafura Sea area.
Alfur people, most likely Alune people, in the mountains of Seram. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Melanesia (regions of former State of East Indonesia in present-day Indonesia), Micronesia | |
| Religion | |
| Animism, Islam, Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Moluccans, Melanesians |
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