Nusa Laut (also called Pulau Nusahulawano or Pulau Emas) is the smallest of the three inhabited island in the Lease Islands group situated east of Ambon Island, in Indonesia's Maluku province.

It lies just off the south-western corner of Saparua island, separated from it by a deep channel.

[4] live in seven villages - Leinitu, Sila, Nalahia and Ameth in the north of the island, and Titawaai, Abubu and Akoon in the south of the island - all sharing the postcode of 97518.

They speak the Nusa Laut language, as well as Indonesian and Ambonese Malay.

[5] Nusa Laut has an all-Christian population and has been spared the 1999–2000 riots plaguing the rest of the region.