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Time zone name Original name UTC offset WIB offset Provinces covered Western Indonesia Time (WIB) Waktu Indonesia Barat: UTC+07:00: WIB+/-0h: Aceh, Bengkulu, Jambi, Lampung, North Sumatra, Riau, South Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung Islands, Banten, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, Special Region of Yogyakarta, East Java, West Kalimantan, and Central Kalimantan
The program offers motorcyclists a free service to send their motorcycles via railways, trucks or ships to their towns separately, while they travel with another mode of transportation instead. Despite initial success in reducing mudik motorcyclists in 2014 and 2015, the number of mudik motorcyclists spiked in 2016 to 5.6 million motorcycles. [1]
There are more than 600 ethnic groups [1] in the multicultural Indonesian archipelago, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world. The vast majority of these belong to the Austronesian peoples, concentrated in western and central Indonesia (), with a sizable minority are Melanesian peoples concentrated in eastern Indonesia ().
Bali East Nusa Tenggara West Nusa Tenggara: Sulawesi [20] Makassar / Manado: 1945–1960 North-Central Sulawesi South-Southeast Sulawesi Central Sumatra (Sumatera Tengah) [17] [21] Bukittinggi: 1948–1957 Jambi Riau West Sumatra: North-Central Sulawesi (Sulawesi Utara-Tengah) [22] Manado: 1960–1964 North Sulawesi Central Sulawesi: South ...
Sumatra [a] (/ s ʊ ˈ m ɑː t r ə /) is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km 2 (182,812 mi. 2), including adjacent islands such as the Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, Enggano, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung and Krakatoa archipelago.
Thousands of cars clog the port during mudik home-coming. One of the largest temporary human migrations globally is the prevailing custom of the Lebaran where workers, particularly unskilled labourers such as maids and construction workers, return to their home town or city to celebrate with their families and to ask forgiveness from parents ...
Nyepi is a Balinese "Day of Silence" that is commemorated every Isakawarsa (Saka new year) according to the Balinese calendar (in 2024, it falls on March 11).. Nyepi, a public holiday in Indonesia, is a day of silence, fasting and meditation for the Balinese.
The South Sumatra Light Rapid Transit [5] (Indonesian: Lintas Rel Terpadu Sumatera Selatan, lit."South Sumatra Integrated Rail Line", shortened to LRT Sumatera Selatan or LRT Sumsel), colloquially known as LRT Palembang or Palembang LRT, is an operational light rapid transit [6] [7] system in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia which connects Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II International Airport ...