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The Supreme Council for the Confucian Religion in Indonesia (Indonesian: Majelis Tinggi Agama Konghucu Indonesia, MATAKIN; Chinese: 印尼孔教總會; pinyin: yìnní kǒngjiào zǒnghuì) is a Confucian church established in 1955 in Indonesia, comprising the communities of practitioners of Confucianism mostly among Chinese Indonesians.
During the Liberal democracy period in Indonesia and Guided Democracy that followed it under Sukarno, the common phrase used in speech and formal meetings was "Merdeka", the Indonesian and Malay word for independence or freedom, or variations of it such as "Salam Merdeka ".
The Kongzi Jiayu (Chinese: 孔子家語), translated as The School Sayings of Confucius [1] or Family Sayings of Confucius, [2] is a collection of sayings of Confucius (Kongzi), written as a supplement to the Analects (Lunyu).
Confucius disapproved the use of a violent revolution by principle, even though the Ji family dominated the Lu state by force for generations and had exiled the previous duke. Creel states that, unlike the rebel Yang Hu before him, Gongshan may have sought to destroy the three hereditary families and restore the power of the duke.
The Public Works Department (PWD), natively known as Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR; Jawi: جابتن كرجا راي), is a government department under the Ministry of Development (MoD) responsible for the development and maintenance of infrastructures in Brunei.
Honorifics are words that connote esteem or respect when used in addressing or referring to a person. In the German language, honorifics distinguish people by age, sex, profession, academic achievement, and rank.