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Batam metropolitan area or officially Batam Raya is a metropolitan area located in Indonesia. This area includes Batam city and its surrounding areas such as Tanjung Pinang city, Bintan Regency, and Karimun Regency. This region of the Riau Islands Province near the Strait of Malacca includes one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. It ...
According to Statistics Indonesia's 2020 census, Batam had a municipal population of 1,196,396, [6] making it the third largest city in the region of Sumatra, after Medan and Palembang. [7] It is the closest part of Indonesia to Singapore , at a minimum distance of 5.8 km across the Singapore Strait .
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This is a list of television networks and stations in Indonesia. Since the establishment of TVRI , Indonesians could only watch one television channel. In 1989, the government allowed RCTI to broadcast as the first private television network in Indonesia, although only people who had a decoder could watch; it was opened to the public on 24 ...
Sinar Indonesia Baru (New Rays of Indonesia, also known by its abbreviation SIB) is an Indonesian daily newspaper published in Medan, North Sumatra.The newspaper was founded on 9 May 1970 by GM Panggabean, a former contributor at Waspada; [1] [2] it claims itself as the only newspaper founded by a Bataknese. [3]
Medan: 479 4,027,000 Medan is the largest urban area outside of Java island. The urban area is known as Mebidangro. 5 Semarang: 259 2,319,000 Although Semarang metropolitan area is nominally the fourth most populous in Indonesia, it actually comprises a significant portion of rural areas. Semarang's urban population is much smaller than Medan ...
Medan (/ m ɛ ˈ d ɑː n / meh-DAHN, Indonesian: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra. [7] The nearby Strait of Malacca, Port of Belawan, and Kualanamu International Airport make Medan a regional hub and multicultural metropolis, acting as a financial centre for Sumatra and a gateway to the western part of Indonesia.
The Greater Medan metropolitan area, known locally as Mebidangro (an acronym of Medan–Binjai–Deli Serdang–Karo) is a metropolitan area in North Sumatra, Indonesia, which consists of Medan City, Binjai City, Deli Serdang Regency and part (4 districts) of Karo Regency. The metropolitan area was established by a presidential decree in 2011. [3]