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Ichtiar Baru van Hoeve is an Indonesian publisher of encyclopedia and reference books.. Originally named Penerbit Van Hoeve Bandung, it was already operating in the 1930s.It closed on 1957 when Indonesia nationalized many foreign companies, but was re-established in ca. 1974 using the name PT Ichtiar Baru Van Hoeve and was headquartered in Jakarta.
The Indonesian Wikipedia (Indonesian: Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, WBI for short) is the Indonesian language edition of Wikipedia. It is the fifth-fastest-growing Asian-language Wikipedia after the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Turkish language Wikipedias. It ranks 25th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
Ensiklopedi umum dalam bahasa Indonesia (English: General encyclopedia in the Indonesian language) is a single volume Indonesian-language general encyclopedia published in 1954 by Bulan Bintang. [1] [2] [3] It was written solely by Adi Negoro. [4] It is claimed to be the second Indonesian encyclopedia that was the work of a single person. [5]
Aeta (Ayta / ˈ aɪ t ə / EYE-tə), Agta and Dumagat, are collective terms for several indigenous peoples who live in various parts of Luzon islands in the Philippines.They are included in the wider Negrito grouping of the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia, with whom they share superficial common physical characteristics such as: dark skin tones; short statures; frizzy to curly hair ...
1969 – Thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo after six months of nationwide leftist university student protests and occupations. 1983 – Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe , who had been stripped of his gold ...
Prevailing wind patterns interact with local topographic conditions to produce significant variations in rainfall throughout the archipelago. In general, western and northern parts of Indonesia experience the most precipitation, since the north- and westward-moving monsoon clouds are heavy with moisture by the time they reach these more distant regions.
The Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence (PPKI) was founded on 7 August 1945 and chaired by Sukarno, replacing the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence (BPUPK). There were initially 21 members, but, unbeknownst to the Japanese, the membership grew by 6 people including Sayuti Melik.
A season is a division of the year [1] based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth , seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun .