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13 unusual facts about Indonesia


810 Naval Air Squadron

They carried out attacks on docks and oil tanks at Sabang in Operation Cockpit in April 1944, and followed this in June with raids on the Andaman Islands.

Battle of Penang

Two days later, the Germans stopped the British steamer Newburn and transferred the remaining Frenchmen so that they could be conveyed to Sabang, Sumatra, then part of the neutral Dutch East Indies.

Coboy Junior

They were to play in 30 Indonesian cities, ranging from Sabang in western Indonesia to Merauke in the east.

Gelgel

Gelgel, Indonesia, a village on the island of Bali, and a former kingdom

Gombloh

In 2009, Rolling Stone Indonesia listed two of Gombloh's songs, "Kebyar-Kebyar" and "Berita Cuaca", as some of the best Indonesian songs of all time.

Gordon Bishop

In the late 1960s Bishop began traveling around the world and ended up in Indonesia.

Gordon Bishop (1946 – July 21, 2007) founded Joyo Indonesia News, an email-based wire of English-speaking Indonesian news.

Ibrahim Tunggul Wulung

Ibrahim Tunggul Wulung (1800–1885) was an indigenous evangelist working in East Java, Central Java, West Java and Banten, Indonesia.

IM3

IM3, a GSM pre-paid card for mobile phones and smartphones developed by Indosat in Indonesia

Japanese cruiser Isuzu

In August, 1942, the Isuzu was reassigned to the Indian Ocean theatre, patrolling between Singapore, Mergui, Burma, Sabang Harbor, Sumatra and Penang, Malaya; however, on 24 August 1942, Isuzu was reassigned back to Makassar.

KRI Ajak

The KRI Ajak is an Indonesian naval vessel of the PB 57 Mk II (Andau class) ASW patrol boats.

Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia

Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia (STSI; Indonesian: Advanced school for the arts of Indonesia) is an arts university in Indonesia with several institutions.

Slamet Gundono

Slamet Gundono (June 19, 1966 – January 6, 2014) was an Indonesian modern puppeteer in wayang and artist.


1996 Wismilak International

The 1996 Wismilak International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Surabaya in Indonesia that was part of Tier IV of the 1996 WTA Tour.

2003 Aceh New Year's Eve bombing

The 2003 Aceh New Year's Eve bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred on 31 December 2003 in Peureulak, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, Indonesia.

A. cinnamomea

Aglaia cinnamomea, a plant species found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

A. edulis

Aglaia edulis, a plant species found in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia

Ade Iwan Setiawan

Ade Iwan Setiawan (born on March 19, 1984) is an Indonesian footballer who currently plays for Persebaya Surabaya in the Liga Indonesia Premier Division.

Anneke Grönloh

Grönloh was born in Tondano, North Celebes, Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia), and spent her early years in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies in a Japanese concentration camp.

Astad Deboo

He also trained with Pina Bausch in the Wuppertal Dance Company, Germany and with Alison Becker Chase of the Pilobolus Dance Company, and travelled through to Europe, Americas, Japan and Indonesia.

Australasian strewnfield

The material from the impact stretches across the ocean to include the islands of the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Java and reaches far out into the Indian Ocean and south to the western side of Australia.

Berau Malay language

The Berau language, also known as Berau Malay, is an Austronesian language which is spoken by the Berau people in Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Berkeley Mafia

Out of the Berkeley Mafia group, only Widjojo continued to have a significant influence within government during the post-Suharto Reform era, by becoming an economic advisor to presidents Habibie, Wahid (Gus Dur), and Megawati.

Bernard Arps

Arps, in association with Annabel Teh Gallop, produced a bilingual photographic catalog of Indonesian manuscripts, "Golden letters: writing traditions of Indonesia" ("Surat Emas: Budaya Tulis di Indonesia" in Indonesian).

Bitzer SE

In the following years, Peter Schaufler founded over 35 subsidiaries on all five continents, including production locations in Germany, Portugal, China, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and the USA.

Bożków

Franz Magnis-Suseno, Jesuit, rector of the philosophical school in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Chang Bogo-class submarine

In early 2012, the Korean defense firm LIG Nex1 exhibited its latest suite of indigenously developed submarine sensors, submarine combat systems, and heavy-weight torpedoes and wire-guided torpedoes in Indonesia for potential use by the Indonesian navy's submarine forces.

Chinatown, Brisbane

Now, many Chinese-Australian residents including people from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China have started to drift away from Chinatown and settle around the favourable Feng shui Sunnybank area located south of the CBD.

David A. Sonnenfeld

In 1993-94, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University, from where he based his field research on the adoption of environmental technologies in the pulp and paper industries of Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

European Union-Indonesia trade relations

Indonesia mostly exports to the EU agricultural products and processed resources, mainly palm oil, fuels and mining products, textiles and furniture.

Evolution of the Dutch Empire

Dutch New Guinea was retained separately until 1962, when it was transferred to Indonesia under pressure from the United States amid the escalation of the Vietnam War.

Franquemont

Descendants of their brothers returned to Europe only several generations later when the East Indies were no longer a colony of the Netherlands and became the Republic of Indonesia.

Halime Zülal Zeren

She was very successful at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Palembang, Indonesia by taking a total of six medals, five of them in gold.

Harmony Chinese Music Group

The Harmony Chinese Music Group (和聲中樂團) is a Chinese music group founded in 2001 in Bandung, Indonesia.

Historical behaviour studies

A particular characteristic of the Stuttgart studies of historical behaviour was the comparative turn towards non-Western societies like Indonesia, Japan, and China.

Indonesia–Malaysia border

The map places Pedra Branca, Middle Rocks and South Ledge inside Malaysia's territorial sea.

Indosat

Ltd. (5.00%)
Global Mediacom (30.00%)
Bhakti Investama (30.00%)
Government of Indonesia (14.29%)
Skagen AS (5.42%)
Public (15.29%).

Jaipongan

The most widely available album of Jaipongan outside of Indonesia is Tonggeret by singer Idjah Hadidjah and Gugum Gumbira's Jugala orchestra, released in 1987, and re-released as West Java: Sundanese Jaipong and other Popular Music by Nonesuch/Elektra Records.

Joris Putman

From the age of three months until he was nine he and his parents lived out of Europe, firstly in Burkina Faso, West Africa, later in Bangkok, and from 1990 in Semarang in Indonesia, before returning to the Netherlands in 1993.

KNIP

Central Indonesian National Committee (in Indonesian, Komite Nasional Indonesia Pusat)

Kor Risik DiRaja

In 1963, when Malaysia was facing the dual threat of the Insurgency by the Malayan Communist Party the Confrontation with Indonesia, the unit was enlarged and became the Ministry of Defence Intelligence Unit under the Joint Intelligence Directorate at the Ministry of Defence (Malaysia).

Lippo Cikarang

Lippo Cikarang is home to one of Indonesia's most respected private universities, Krida Wacana Christian University.

Lontar Foundation

Lontar also published Indonesia in the Soeharto Years - Issues, Incidents and images written by John H. McGlynn and a large number of other writers.

Macassar Dunes Conservation Area

In the 1600s under colonial rule, the first Muslim community in South Africa was founded here by Sheikh Yusuf of Indonesia, who named the area after his home in Indonesia – the original Khoi name for the area was not recorded.

Max Soliven

Spending more than twelve years as a foreign correspondent, Soliven traveled to many of the notable global hotspots during the 1960s, such as the Vietnam War and the 1968 Tet Offensive therein; and the Gestapu Coup in Indonesia in 1965, in which half a million people were massacred.

McElhanney

In 2012 McElhanney's branch office in Jakarta, Indonesia acquired LiDAR and digital aerial photography for archaeologists working in the Angkor region of Cambodia studying the history of the Khmer Empire.

Nepenthes epiphytica

Nepenthes epiphytica is a tropical pitcher plant known only from the Berau and East Kutai Regencies of East Kalimantan, Borneo, where it grows at an elevation of around 1000 m above sea level.

Parkindo

It had considerable influence despite the small number of Christians in Indonesia due to the large numbers of Christians in the civil service, the Army and educational establishments and because of the high profile of party leader Johannes Leimena who served in several Indonesian cabinets and as deputy prime minister.

Pondok Pesantren Minhaajurrosyidiin Jakarta

Santriwan-santriwati from all over Indonesia and from abroad, from Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Suriname and Vietnam.

Project E.A.R.

It is a collaboration of bands from five countries in Southeast Asia which include Ahli Fiqir from (Singapore), Pop Shuvit from (Malaysia), Saint Loco from (Indonesia), Thaitanium and Silksounds both from (Thailand) and Slapshock of the (Philippines).

Raffles International Christian School

Raffles International Christian School is an international school in Pondok Indah (Main Campus), Kelapa Gading and Kebon Jeruk (Branch Campuses) in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Roy M. Huffington

In 1966 HUFFCO signed production sharing contract with Pertamina to explore oil in the Kutai Basin of the Mahakam River delta in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Ryan Townsend

He was released four games before the end of the A-League season after a single appearance and then decided to play in Indonesia with Persiba Balikpapan until 2008.

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a week long film festival founded in 2006 by filmmaker and artist Harish Saluja and held every May during Asian American Heritage Month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to show mostly recent films and music by artists with Asian ethnic origins, such as from Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines.

Simon Archer

In 2000 he coupled with Nathan Robertson, but they too lost in the quarterfinals, this time to Tony Gunawan and Candra Wijaya of Indonesia.

Soe Tjen Marching

Her work has been released on the CD Asia Piano Avantgarde - Indonesia, played by pianist Steffen Schleiermacher.

STAR World Philippines

Before STAR World, STAR Plus was STAR's English language entertainment channel which has started its operations in 1 January 1994 and its Indonesia counterpart was Film Indonesia and India was Zee TV.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Stigmatogobius sadanundio

Stigmatogobius sadanundio is a species of goby native to south Asia from India to Indonesia including Sri Lanka and the Andaman Islands.

Taji M Sianturi

Taji M. Sianturi was graduated from Padjadjaran University Faculty of Law and he also has contributed in Doing Business Report for Indonesia Region, a study elaborated by the World Bank Group.

Tanjung Puting

Tanjung Puting National Park is a national park in Indonesia located in the southeast part of West Kotawaringin Regency in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan (Central Borneo).

Tundi Spring Agardy

Sound Seas explored the feasibility of establishing a research station on Palmyra Atoll for The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and conducted evaluations for the United Nations Development Programme in the Black Sea region, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for its support of WWF climate change work in Cameroon, Fiji, and Tanzania, and International Financial Corporation (IFC) in its support of TNC work in Komodo, Indonesia.

Wattled Smoky Honeyeater

The first bird species found in New Guinea since 1939, the honeyeater was one of over twenty new species discovered by an international team of eleven scientists from Australia, Indonesia and the United States, led by an American ornithologist and Melanesia Conservation International vice-president Bruce Beehler.