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The Dutch themselves wanted to protect the Riau Islands from Japanese attacks from the sea and accepted the offer. After a brief stop in retrieving the mines from Singapore in early 1941, the minelayer HNLMS Willem van der Zaan of the Zeemacht Nederlands-Indië (Royal Dutch Navy) was deployed to Riau in April. [3]
The Karimun Regency is located in the Riau Islands Province, Indonesia. Besides the central island of Great Karimun , the regency also includes the island of Kundur and over 240 lesser islands. The district covers a land area of 1,339.9 km 2 and a sea area of 6,460 km 2 , and its population was 212,561 at the 2010 census [ 2 ] and 253,457 at ...
Sakai is a tribal community in Indonesia, traditionally living in the interior of Riau, Sumatra. [1] Some of them still lead a nomadic and hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the remote interior of Sumatra, while most settled into major cities and towns in Sumatra with the rise of industrialization. [2] There are various theories of their origin.
The Riau Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Riau) is a province of Indonesia—not to be confused with neighbouring Riau from which the Riau Islands Province were separated in 2002. The capital of the province is Tanjung Pinang, while the largest city is Batam.
They only make up 29% of Riau Island population, while in Riau, they constitute a plurality, at around 45%. Riau Malays, especially in coastal Riau and Riau Islands, share the same or similar cultural, historical, and linguistic background with Johorean and Singaporean Malays due to their common Malaccan origin in the 15th century.
The districts of Riau, with the regency each falls into, are as follows: Bagan Sinembah, Rokan Hilir ... Rangsang Barat, Kepulauan Meranti; Rangsang, Bengkalis ...
The Riau Archipelago is a geographic term (as opposed to administrative region) for the core group of islands within the Riau Islands Province in Indonesia, and located south of Singapore and east of Riau on Sumatra. Before the province of Riau Islands was formed, there was no ambiguity in term; however, in Indonesian language, both the ...
Riau (Jawi: رياو ) is a ... while the smallest population was in the Kepulauan Meranti Regency where about 110,100 people were male and 103,400 were female ...