Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory,as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi.2),including adjacent islands such as the Simeulue,Nias,Mentawai,Enggano,Riau Islands,Bangka Belitung and Krakatoa archipelago.
Blok M is a business and shopping quarter located in Kebayoran Baru,South Jakarta,Indonesia. It runs east from Iskandarsyah street to Bulungan street in the west. North from Falatehan street to Melawai street in the south. The development is similar to some developments near Kota,West Jakarta. On a daily basis,crowds of people throng its street,and even more so during nighttime. Much of the popularity of the quarter is due to the prices of goods,and the nightlife.
The Thirtieth of September Movement was a self-proclaimed organization of Indonesian National Armed Forces members. In the early hours of 1 October 1965,they assassinated six Indonesian Army generals in an abortive coup d'état. Later that morning,the organization declared that it was in control of media and communication outlets and had taken President Sukarno under its protection. By the end of the day,the coup attempt had failed in Jakarta. Meanwhile,in central Java there was an attempt to take control over an army division and several cities. By the time this rebellion was put down,two more senior officers were dead.
The Seibu Department Stores,Ltd. is a Japanese department store. The first store to trade under the name opened its doors in 1949. Seibu is typical of Japanese department stores with a wide variety of stores doing business on several floors. The company is now a subsidiary of Sogo &Seibu Co.,Ltd.,owned by the U.S. investment fund Fortress Investment Group.
The Overseas Minangkabau is a demographic group of Minangkabau people of Minangkabau Highlands origin in Central Sumatra,Indonesia who have settled in other parts of the world. Over half of the Minangkabau people can be considered overseas Minangkabaus. They make up the majority of the population of Negeri Sembilan and Pekanbaru. They also form a significant minority in the populations of Jakarta,Bandung,Medan,Batam,Surabaya and Palembang in Indonesia as well as Kuala Lumpur,Malacca,Penang,Singapore and Brunei Darussalam in the rest of the Malay world. Minangkabaus have also emigrated as skilled professionals and merchants to the Netherlands,United States,Saudi Arabia and Australia. The matrilineal culture and economic conditions in West Sumatra have made the Minangkabau people one of the most mobile ethnic group in Maritime Southeast Asia.
Television in Indonesia started in 1962,when the then state-run station TVRI began broadcasting –the third country in Southeast Asia to do so. TVRI held a television monopoly in Indonesia until 1989 when the first commercial station,RCTI began as a local station and was subsequently granted a national license a year later. The Indonesian television is regulated by both Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Kemenkominfo) for frequency matters and Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) for content matters.
Minangkabau businesspeople refers to merchants from the Minangkabau Highlands in central Sumatra,Indonesia. Minangkabau are the ethnic majority in West Sumatra and Negeri Sembilan. Minangkabau are also a recognised minority in other parts of Indonesia as well as Malaysia,Singapore and the Netherlands.
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Indonesia.
tvOne with legal name PT Lativi Media Karya is an Indonesian free-to-air news television broadcaster based in East Jakarta. tvOne is owned by Visi Media Asia (Viva),a unit of the Bakrie Group.
Sekolah Laboratorium Unsyiah,also known as SMA Labschool Unsyiah is a community-based school that is a part of the Universitas Syiah Kuala complex in Banda Aceh,Aceh,Indonesia.
Zaini Abdullah is an Indonesian politician and former separatist activist of the Free Aceh Movement in Indonesia who was elected as the governor of the province of Aceh in the 2012 election for a five-year period from 2012 to 2017. Elected with 56% of the vote,Zaini Abdullah is the second governor directly chosen by the electors of Aceh since the granting of restricted autonomy to the area by the Indonesian government in 2005. His predecessor Irwandi Yusuf,who was elected in 2006 for the period from 2007 to 2012,was the first governor chosen in the province by direct elections.
The Indonesian Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Indonesian ancestry. Today,there are many Malaysian Malays who have lineage from the Indonesian archipelago and have played an important role in the history and contributed to the development of Malaysia,they have been assimilated with other Malay communities and are grouped as part of the foreign Malays or anak dagang in terms of race. The Malaysian census does not categorize ethnic groups from the Indonesian archipelago as a separate ethnic group,but rather as Malay or Bumiputera.
PT Sarinah (Persero) is an Indonesian retail company owned by PT Aviasi Pariwisata Indonesia (Persero) (InJourney),a state-owned holding company. Its flagship store,Sarinah Building in M.H. Thamrin Street of Central Jakarta,was the first skyscraper to be built in Jakarta as well as the first modern department store in the city. In addition to Thamrin,Sarinah also has a number of other outlets namely at Pejaten Village in South Jakarta,Banyumanik (Semarang) and Malang.
Ar-Raniry State Islamic University Banda Aceh (Bahasa Indonesia:Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh or it is simply called UIN Ar-Raniry,is a public Islamic university in Banda Aceh,Aceh Province,Indonesia. The University is run under the auspices of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.
Union of Islamic Education,also known as PERTI,is a Shafii-Ash'ari Islamic organization in Indonesia. The organization was founded by Sulaiman ar-Rasuli on May 5,1928 in Candung,West Sumatra. In its development,PERTI had become a political party and gained four People's Representative Council (DPR-RI) seats and seven Constituent seats in 1955 general election.
Minangkabau culture is the culture of the Minangkabau ethnic group in Indonesia,part of the Indonesian culture. This culture is one of the two major cultures in the Indonesian archipelago which is very prominent and influential.
Sarinah Building is a 74-metre tall 15-floor department store in Gondangdia,Menteng,Central Jakarta,Indonesia. It was the first skyscraper to be built in Jakarta.
Usman Ja'far was an Indonesian politician and businessman who served as the Governor of West Kalimantan between 2003 and 2008,and as a member of the People's Representative Council from 2009 until his death in 2015.
