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5 unusual facts about North Sumatra


Bika Ambon

Mojopahit Street, Medan Petisah is a most famous sales region of Bika Ambon in Medan, North Sumatra.

Although the name contains the word "Ambon", the name of an island and its largest city, Bika Ambon is widely known as the specialty cake of Medan in North Sumatra and often brought as a gift by those whom visited the city.

Nepenthes rhombicaulis

Nepenthes rhombicaulis is known from a number of peaks in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, particularly around Lake Toba.

Rohana Kudus

When her father was assigned to Alahan Panjang, North Sumatra, she asked her Dutch neighbors to teach her household skills such as knitting and weaving.

Siberut

Some anthropologists believe that several thousand years ago, the Bataks of North Sumatra may have been the first to settle here.


Andreas Victor Michiels

As governor of the West Coast of Sumatra, in 1843, Michiels had a serious clash with Eduard Douwes Dekker, who was then serving as controller at Natal (now in Mandailing Natal Regency, North Sumatra) because of a cash budget deficit.

Bandar Baru

Bandar Baru (known locally simply as 'BB') is a prostitution lokalisasi in Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatra on the road from Medan to Berastagi.

Batak Christian Protestant Church

In 1864, Dr. Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen from Rhenish Missionary Society Germany, reached the Batak region and founded a village called "Huta Dame" (village of peace) in the district of Tapanuli in Tarutung, North Sumatra.

Cosmas Batubara

Cosmas Batubara, born in Purbasaribu, Simalungun Regency, North Sumatra in 19 September 1938, is an Indonesian politician.

Eugenia Tanaka

Eugenia Tanaka (born March 9, 1987 in Kisaran, North Sumatra, Indonesia) is an Indonesian-born Australian badminton player.

Gagak Item

Gagak Item was released in late 1939 and was screened in Batavia (now Jakarta), the capital of the Indies; Medan, North Sumatra; and Surabaya, eastern Java.

Hazairin

In 1938 Hazairin obtained a post at a court in Padang Sidempuan, North Sumatra, where he stayed until the Japanese invaded the Indies in 1942; during the same period he served to enforce adat law throughout South Tapanuli.

Hoogerwerf's Pheasant

Previously known only from two female specimens, it was recently discovered in a market in Medan, North Sumatra.

Mandailing people

Mandailing is the name of region Luat Mandailing, which is now almost in Mandailing Natal Regency in North Sumatra.

Military history of Australia during the Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation

On 17 July 1963 Australian Sabres sighted Indonesian Air Force MiG-19s near the Malaysian coast and tracked one of them back towards its base at Medan in North Sumatra.

Nepenthes mikei

Nepenthes mikei is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where it has been recorded from only two mountains: Mount Pangulubao in North Sumatra and Mount Bandahara in Aceh.

Pancasila Youth

Pancasila Youth played an important role in supporting Suharto's military coup in 1965: they ran death squads for the Indonesian army, killing a million or more alleged communists and Chinese Indonesians across the province of North Sumatra, as described in the 2012 documentary The Act of Killing.

Rück's Blue Flycatcher

Two specimens, an immature and adult male were last recorded and collected around 1917-1918 in secondary lowland forests in Medan area of North Sumatra province by the Dutch collector, August van Heijst.

Sultanate of Langkat

The Sultanate of Langkat was a Muslim state located in modern Langkat Regency, North Sumatra.


see also

PT Kereta Api

The separate systems in Sumatra has their shops in Lahat (South Sumatra), Padang (West Sumatra) and Pulubrayan (North Sumatra).

Sabang

Sabang Merauke Raya Air Charter, an airline based in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

Tamil Indonesians

At the end of 1940s, many Tamils got an opportunity to return and left, but about 5000 to 10,000 Tamils remained in North Sumatra, mainly in Medan, but also in Lubuk Pakam (Deli Serdang Regency), Tebing Tinggi, and Binjai.

Their presence has been recorded in Lobu Tua Inscription dating from 1088 about Five Hundred Lords of Ayyavolu, a Tamil merchant guild in Barus, an ancient port town currently located in Central Tapanuli Regency, North Sumatra.

Tiger Airways Holdings

Tigerair Mandala started operations on Thursday 5 April 2012, with one domestic route between its home base Jakarta and Medan, the capital of North Sumatra.