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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.
Dunia Dalam Berita (The World In News) is an Indonesian world news program broadcast by TVRI on its main channel.Aired every Monday to Friday at 21.00 WIB (23.00 WIB in 2015 until late-2017), the program airs since 22 December 1978.
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.
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles).
The Malay world or Malay realm (Indonesian/Malay: Dunia Melayu or Alam Melayu) is a concept or an expression that has been used by different authors and groups over time to denote several different notions, derived from varied interpretations of 'Malay' either as an ethnic group, as a racial category, as a linguistic group or as a cultural group.
Surakarta (Javanese: ꦯꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠ, Pegon: سوراكارتا), known colloquially as Solo (Javanese: ꦱꦭ; Sálá), is a major city in Central Java, Indonesia.The 46.72 km 2 (18.04 sq mi) city [4] adjoins Karanganyar Regency and Boyolali Regency to the north, Karanganyar Regency and Sukoharjo Regency to the east and west, and Sukoharjo Regency to the south. [5]
The pre-1989 Eastern Bloc and SFR Yugoslavia (orange) superimposed on 2005 European borders. In the political language of Russia, the near abroad (Russian: ближнее зарубежье, romanized: blizhneye zarubezhye) refers to the post-Soviet states (other than Russia itself) which became independent after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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.