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The first border monument between Indonesia and East Timor is in Motaain, Belu Regency. Border negotiations have been conducted by Indonesia since 2001 with the UN-formed transitional government in East Timor (UNTAET), before being continued with the official government of Timor-Leste since 2002 through the Joint Border Committee (JBC). The ...
Map of Lesser Sunda Islands, east of Java Satellite picture of the Lesser Sunda Islands. The Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Sunda Kecil, Tetum: Illá Sunda ki'ik sirá, Balinese: Kapuloan Sunda cénik), now known as Nusa Tenggara Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, or "Southeast Islands"), [1] are an archipelago in Indonesian archipelago.
While it covers only 1.6% of the planet's oceanic area, the region has 76% of all known coral species in the world. As a habitat for 52% of Indo-Pacific reef fishes and 37% of the world's reef fishes, it contains the greatest diversity of coral reef fishes in the world [17] More than 3,000 species of bony fish are distributed over more than 90% of the Coral Triangle.
East Timor, [a] also known as Timor-Leste, [b] officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia.It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor islands of Atauro and Jaco.
Tawau residents and their community chief with Alexander Rankin Dunlop (sitting right) in the Cowie Harbour of Tawau, circa 1885.. Like most of this part of Borneo, this area was once under the control of the Bruneian Empire [4] in the 15th century before being ceded to the Sultanate of Sulu between the 17th [5] and 18th centuries [6] as a gift for helping the Bruneian forces during a civil ...
The discovery of the Natuna Islands by I-Tsing (or Yijing) has been disputed by some historians, who point to errors in interpreting his historical records.Although I-Tsing, a Buddhist monk from the Tang Dynasty, recorded his extensive travels through Southeast Asia and India, there is no strong evidence in his records that explicitly mentions the Natuna Islands.
Kediri (Javanese: ꦏꦸꦛꦏꦝꦶꦫꦶ, Kutha Kadhiri) is a city, located near the Brantas River in the province of East Java on the island of Java in Indonesia.It covers an area of 67.23 km 2 and had a population of 268,950 at the 2010 Census [2] and 286,796 at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 298,830 (comprising 148,296 males and 150,524 females). [1]
The followings are the contiguous urban areas in Indonesia, with a population of over one million, according to Demographia's "World Urban Areas" study. Demographia defines an urban area (urbanised area agglomeration or urban centre) as a continuously built up land mass of urban development that is within a labor market ( metropolitan area ...