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A dance known as cendrawasih was designed by I Gde Manik and was first performed in the Sawan subdistrict of the Buleleng Regency in the 1920s; the area is the origin of numerous dances, including Trunajaya, Wirangjaya, and Palawakya.
first month of the lunar new year, first day of the lunar new year, Chinese new year sinci: spirit tablet: 神位: 神位: Min Nan: sîn-ūi spirit tablet: singkék: Chinese newcomer (derogative), pure blooded Chinese, i.e. not of mixed ancestry: 新客: 新客: Min Nan: sin-khek: new guest, new outsider, new Hakka: singkong: cassava (Manihot ...
Citizens of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China) residing in Indonesia are served by two international schools: [219] Jakarta Taipei School (印尼雅加達臺灣學校), which was the first Chinese-language school in Indonesia since the Indonesian government ended its ban on the Chinese language, [220] and the Surabaya Taipei ...
Kutai is a historical region in what is now the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.The region shares its name with the native ethnic group of the region (known as Urang Kutai 'the Kutai people'), with a total population around 300,000, who have their own language known as the Kutainese language which accompanies their own rich history.
There are also Hokkien speakers scattered throughout other parts of Indonesia—including Jakarta and the island of Java—Thailand, Myanmar, East Malaysia, Brunei, Cambodia, and Southern Vietnam, though there is notably more Teochew and Swatow background among descendants of Chinese migrants in Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos ...
Malaysian Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 马来西亚华语; traditional Chinese: 馬來西亞華語; pinyin: Mǎláixīyà Huáyǔ) is a variety of the Chinese language spoken in Malaysia by ethnic Chinese residents. It is currently the primary language used by the Malaysian Chinese community [1]
The people referred to this old man as 'pek-apek, where apek is a Chinese slang word to call an old man. The food is known today as empek-empek or pempek. Another theory suggests that pempek was a Palembang adaptation of Southern Chinese ngo hiang or kekkian as a surimi (魚漿, yújiāng) based food. But instead of being served in soup or ...
Ali Baba is a business practice in Malaysia, where a Malay company obtains a contract from the government-sponsored affirmative action system for the Bumiputera (the Malaysian New Economic Policy under Ketuanan Melayu) and subcontracts it to an ethnically Chinese-owned company. [1]