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This was a response to independence movements that had been present in the province since it became part of Indonesia, and occurred alongside the renaming of the province from Irian Jaya to Papua. [ 6 ] : 42–43 [ 7 ] This gave Papua a greater portion of revenue, autonomy outside reserved areas maintained by the central government, and 20 ...
It was a component of the United States of Indonesia, and was dissolved into the unitary Republic of Indonesia in 17 August 1950. [2] Currently, Eastern Indonesia consists of 17 provinces: Bali, East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, Central Sulawesi, Gorontalo, North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, Maluku, North ...
An expert on the origin of Palembang people who are also descendants of the king, admitted that the Palembang people were the descendants of Arabs, Chinese, Javanese and other ethnic groups in Indonesia. The Palembang people themselves have two different languages, namely Baso Palembang Alus and Baso Palembang Sari-Sari. The Palembang people ...
Trans-Sumatra Highway Eastern Route in Aceh Besar, Aceh, Indonesia. The Trans-Sumatra Highway (Indonesian: Jalan Raya Trans-Sumatra) is a primary north–south road in the Indonesian island of Sumatra, 2,508.5 km in length, and connecting the northern island at Banda Aceh to Bandar Lampung in the south, running through many major cities, traversing Medan, Pekanbaru, Jambi, and Palembang along ...
The official languages of Timor-Leste are Tetum and Portuguese, while in West Timor it is Indonesian, although Uab Meto is the local Atoni language spoken throughout Kupang, South Central Timur and North Central Timur Regencies. Indonesian, a standardized dialect of Malay, is also widely spoken and understood in Timor-Leste.
[2] It has an area of 17,071.33 km 2 and a population of 727,376 at the 2010 Census [3] and 769,348 at the 2020 Census; [4] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 779,893 people, consisting of 400,607 males and 379,286 females. [1] The regency contains the Ogan-Komering Ilir, or floodplain lakes, an area of wetland covering about 200,000 ...
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands , including Sumatra , Java , Sulawesi , and parts of Borneo and New Guinea .
Palembang (Indonesian pronunciation: [paˈlɛmbaŋ], Palembang: Pelémbang, Jawi: ڤليمبڠ ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra.The city proper covers 352.51 square kilometres (136.10 square miles) on both banks of the Musi River in the eastern lowlands of southern Sumatra.