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The term kota (city) has been implemented to substitute kotamadya since the post-Suharto era in Indonesia. [10] Kota is headed by a mayor (walikota), who is directly elected via elections to serve for a five-year term, which can be renewed for one further five-year term. Each kota is divided further into districts, more commonly known as kecamatan.
As early as the 1st century CE Indonesian vessels made trade voyages as far as Africa. Picture: a ship carved on Borobudur in Java c. 800 CE. Since ancient times, people from various ethnic groups of Indonesia have been leaving their hometowns to other parts of the world for purposes of trade, education, labor, or travel.
Makassar (/ m ə ˈ k æ s ə r / muh-KASS-uhr), [a] formerly Ujung Pandang (/ ˈ u ˌ dʒ u ŋ p ɑː n ˈ d ɑː ŋ / OO-joong PAHN-dahng), [b] [3] [4] is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi.
Kota Tua Jakarta (Indonesian for "Jakarta Old Town"), officially known as Kota Tua, [1] is a neighborhood comprising the original downtown area of Jakarta, Indonesia. It is also known as Oud Batavia ( Dutch for "Old Batavia"), Benedenstad ("Lower City", contrasting it with Weltevreden , de Bovenstad ("Upper City")), or Kota Lama (Indonesian for ...
Kota (Negeri Sembilan Malay: Koto, Jawi: كوتا) is a small town in Rembau District, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, situated along Federal Route 1. The postcode for this small town is 71350. This small town contains a few villages such as Kampung Legong Ulu, Kampung Gadong, Kampung Sri Kendong, Kampung Sawah Raja and a few others.
Port of Sorong. Sorong is the largest city and the capital of the Indonesian province of Southwest Papua.The city is located on the western tip of the island of New Guinea with its only land borders being with Sorong Regency.
Sutan Sjahrir was born on 5 March 1909, in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra.He came from an ethnic-Minangkabau family, from what is today Koto Gadang, Agam Regency. [2]His father, Muhammad Rasyad Maharajo Sutan, served as the Hoofd or Chief public prosecutor at the Landraad in Medan.
Bontang is a city on the eastern coast of the island of Borneo in Indonesia, in the province of East Kalimantan.It occupies an area of 161.88 km 2 (62.50 sq mi), and the population was 140,787 at the 2010 census, [6] and 178,917 at the 2020 census; [7] the official estimate as of mid-2023 was 189,968 (comprising 98,222 males and 91,746 females). [4]