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21 unusual facts about Bogor


Batutulis inscription

The Batutulis inscription is an ancient Sunda Kingdom inscription dated 1533, located at Batutulis village, South Bogor, West Java.

Centella asiatica

In Indonesia, the leaves are used for sambai oi peuga-ga, an Aceh type of salad, and is also mixed into asinan in Bogor.

Erythroxylum novogranatense

It was introduced in Bogor (West Java, Indonesia) in 1875, and by 1888 large quantities of seed were already being distributed in South-East Asia.

German submarine U-196

Oberleutnant Dr. Ing. Heinz Haake of U-196 is buried in a graveyard at Bogor, Java with members of the World War I German East Asia Squadron at Arca Domas, on the slopes of Mount Pangrango, Java.

Indos in colonial history

Erected by him along the Kanarielaan in Lands Plantentuin (now Bogor Botanical Gardens) in Buitenzorg (now Bogor), West Java.

Javan leopard

As of 2007, the Taman Safari zoo in Bogor, Indonesia, kept 17 Javan leopards — seven males and 10 females, of which four were breeding pairs.

Kwasi Boakye

As part of the compensation, he was awarded an estate in Bantar Peteh, south of Buitenzorg.

Mega Mendoeng

She encounters romantic difficulties with Soedjono, but they are able to solve their differences after meeting at Mega Mendung, Bogor.

Omar al-Faruq

He was captured in Bogor, Indonesia in 2002 by an Indonesian security agent who handed him over to the United States.

Organisation for the Preservation of Birds and their Habitat

The organisation, which is a partner of the international organisation Birdlife International, was founded on July 15, 2002 and has its head quarters in Bogor, Java.

Regina Pacis School

The schools are located in Jakarta and Bogor and the educational services include kindergarten, primary school (grades 1-6), junior high school (grades 7-9), and senior high school (grades 10-12).

The school is located near most governmental and historical buildings of Bogor such as the court, the town hall, and the cathedral.

Revised Dwikora Cabinet

It was during a meeting of this Cabinet that unidentified troops surrounded the Presidential Palace causing to Sukarno to escape to Bogor from where he gave Supersemar to Lieutenant General Suharto.

Ru den Hamer

Rudolf "Ru" den Hamer (July 24, 1917 in Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies – March 14, 1988 in The Hague) was a Dutch water polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Sentul International Circuit

Sentul International Circuit is a permanent motor racing circuit located in Babakan Madang, Bogor.

Sunda Kelapa

The port served the capital, Pakuan Pajajaran, located about 60 km inland south, along the Ciliwung river hinterland, now the site of modern Bogor.

Supersemar

Sukarno was advised to leave the meeting and did so, flying to the presidential palace in Bogor, 60 km south of Jakarta, by helicopter.

Surinamestraat 20, The Hague

The father of Couperus, John Ricus Couperus (1816-1902) gave orders to build this house; he first sold his estate "Tjicoppo", which was located near Buitenzorg in the Dutch East Indies and then returned to the Netherlands, where he and his family moved into this house.

Transition to the New Order

Sukarno left the palace in haste for Bogor, where later that night, he signed the Supersemar document transferring authority to restore order to Major General Suharto.

Tuti Indra Malaon

Maloan's husband died after being struck by a bus in October 1985; at the time he was head judge of the Bogor city court.

Vonny Cornellya

Vonny Cornellya Permatasari known as Vonny Cornelia (born in Bogor, West Java 14 August 1979) is an Indonesian actress.


2009 Jakarta bombings

On August 8, police raided a house in Bekasi, West Java, killing two people believed to be preparing to attack the Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono with a truck bomb near his private residence in Bogor, West Java.

Asinan

Asinan Bogor: The fruit asinan of Bogor city, West Java is preserved tropical fruits, such as raw mango, water apple, papaya, ambarella, jicama, nutmeg and pineapple served in sweet, hot and sour vinegar and chili sauce, sprinkled with peanuts.

Bogor Botanical Gardens

In 1862, the Cibodas Botanical Gardens were founded as an extension of the Bogor garden at Cibodas, approximately 45 kilometers to the southeast of Bogor.

Bogor Regency

Bogor Regency Indonesian: Kabupaten Bogor is a regency (kabupaten) of West Java, Indonesia, south of DKI Jakarta, and bordered by Tangerang Regency, the cities of South Tangerang, Depok and Bekasi, and finally Bekasi Regency all to the north, and fully encircling Bogor City.

Greater Jakarta

Jabodetabek, Depok was carved out of Bogor Regency in 1999, leading to the new name (but covering the same area as Jabotabek) Similarly, South Tangerang was carved out of Tangerang Regency, without a name change or area change.

Hedgehogs in New Zealand

Burton Silver, a New Zealand cartoonist whose Bogor cartoon strip often featured hedgehogs

Helmi Johannes

As television reporter Helmi Johannes had covered the OPEC Meeting in Paris, France in 1991, the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Jakarta (1992) and the 1994 APEC Summit in Bogor, Indonesia.

Indonesian National Route 2

Continuing 2.8 km southward, it interchanges with Route 12 leading for Bogor via Parung near MPR/DPR/DPD Complex, the highest legislative institution in Indonesia.

Jagorawi Toll Road

It was revealed that Dul was driving a black Mitsubishi Lancer, as he lost control of his car and hit the metal separator while going home from Bogor to Jakarta, crashing an oncoming Daihatsu Gran Max and a Toyota Avanza.

Taman Safari

Taman Safari Indonesia or simply Taman Safari are safari parks in Bogor at West Java, in Mount Arjuno at East Java, and in Marina Beach at Bali.

Thomas Karsten

He was a town planning consultant for Semarang (1916–20, 1936), Buitenzorg (now 'Bogor') (1920–23), Madiun (1929), Malang (1930–35), Batavia (Jakarta) (1936–37), Magelang (1937–38), Bandung (1941), as well as Cirebon, Meester Cornelis (part of Jakarta which is known as Jatinegara), Yogyakarta, Surakarta, Purwokerto, Padang, Medan and Banjarmasin.