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At 1,143 km (710 mi) in length, it is the longest river in the island of Borneo and the longest river in Indonesia [5] [6] and one of the world's longest island rivers. [7] It originates in the Müller mountain range at the center of the island and flows west into the South China Sea creating an extended marshy delta.
The Musi River (Indonesian: Sungai Musi) is a river in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia. [8] It flows from south-west to north-east, from the Barisan Mountains range that form the backbone of Sumatra, in Kepahiang Regency, Bengkulu Province, to the Bangka Strait that forms an extension of the South China Sea.
A bridge and aqueduct crossing the secondary canal leading to the main stream of the Comal River (Dutch Colonial picture, 19th–20th century). The Comal River is the main stream in the drainage basin (Indonesian: daerah aliran sungai Comal covering an area of 822 km 2 (317 sq mi) [6] which comprises three administrative regencies: Pemalang, Tegal and Pekalongan. [7]
Indonesia: 1,904,569: 100.0: 3,221: 100.0 [4] Major rivers by Indonesia. River Island Length (km) Drainage area (km²) Average discharge (m 3 /s) Outflow Kapuas: Borneo:
The Angke River (Indonesian: Kali Angke or Sungai Angke, Chinese: 紅溪; pinyin: Hóng xī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Âng-khe) is a 91.25-kilometre (56.70 mi) long river in Jakarta, Indonesia. The river flows from the Bogor area of West Java, [2] passing through the cities of Tangerang and Jakarta into the Java Sea [3] via the Cengkareng Drain. [4]
According to the Central Maluku legend, the three rivers: Eti River, Tala River and Sapalewa River, flow from a sacred lake on the mountain peak called "Nunusaku". There grows a ficus tree with three big roots, each stretching in the direction of the abovementioned rivers, and this is the origin of the native people of the island of Seram, the so-called "Alifuru" people, who later inhabited ...
First, the change of the word from Candrabhaga to Bekasi was suggested by Prof. Dr. R. Ng. Poerbatjaraka in 1951, a philology expert at the University of Indonesia who obtained a doctorate at Leiden University, the Netherlands, in Javanese literature in 1926. He stated that Bekasi comes from the word Candrabhaga, the name of a river built in ...
The Krukut River is a river flowing in Jakarta originating in Bogor Regency. [1] In the past the river was clean and one of the tourist attractions during the Dutch East Indies administration, but due to denser housing on the banks and lack of maintenance, the water turned dark and filled with trash, causing routine flooding in rainy seasons.