In between 1880-1942, most of the migrants in Ambon were Butonese. They live in the border of the forests and coconut garden. They also work in the port and private companies in Ambon . Jan Pieterzoon Coen, a governor general of the Dutch East Indies of Batavia, showed that Buton was traditionally a slave exporting land. He once visited Buton in the 1613. He was less enthusiastic. The land was quite well populated, and people mostly can make excellent ships from fine wood. However, he remarked that the people were poor though the slaves are cheap. Coen did not see any possibilities of commerce in this poor land except the slave trade. From the 1666-1681 the Butonese were great supplier of slaves. It was reported that over these years, the
