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10 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.

Fairey Barracuda

From April 1944, Barracudas of No 827 Squadron aboard Illustrious started operations against Japanese forces, taking part in raids against Sabang in Sumatra (Operation Cockpit).

Gordon Bishop

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.

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.

Miss Bali 2003

Miss Bali 2003 is a beauty contest in Indonesia.

Nurul Fikri Boarding School

Nurul Fikri Boarding School (Pesantren Ibnu Salam, also known with the abbreviation NFBS) is a secondary and high school located in Jalan Palka, Cinangka, Serang, Banten, Indonesia.

Rover Scout

Today, the Rover section remains an important part of Scouting in many European countries, in most member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations (e.g. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong), across Central and South America, the Middle East and in many other countries such as Ireland, Japan, Republic of China/Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Korea.

The Stabilizer

The Stabilizer is a 1984 Indonesian action film directed by The Punjabi Brothers and distributed by Troma Entertainment.


A. edulis

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

A1 Team Indonesia

A1 Team Indonesia has been operating since January 2008 by Performance Racing, which provide technical and race services.

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.

Afrizal Malna

Best Literary Work 2009 from the Indonesian news magazine Tempo for the poetry collection Teman-Temanku dari Atap Bahasa

Andrew Durante

Durante was selected in Pim Verbeek's Socceroo squad in February 2010 for Australia's 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification match against Indonesia.

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.

Astra Manufacturing Polytechnic

Astra Manufacturing Polytechnic is a technical institute in Jakarta, Indonesia and is known as Polman.

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.

Banggai Island

Banggai Island is the second largest of the Banggai Islands, an archipelago located at the far eastern end of Central Sulawesi, 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

Since 1979 Arps spent four years on fieldwork in Indonesia, in the regions of Surakarta and Yogyakarta in central Java, Banyuwangi on the eastern tip of the island, and Cilacap on the south coast.

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.

Bobonaro District

It was also the site of the killing of five Australian-based journalists (the Balibo Five) by Indonesian forces on October 16, 1975 during an incursion by Indonesia into what was then Portuguese Timor.

Bota

The Banjar people are a group of migrants who originated from Banjarmasin in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

C. major

Copiula major, a frog species found in Indonesia and possibly Papua New Guinea

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.

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.

Gordon Bishop

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

Heart of Borneo

The proposed Heart of Borneo region includes a number of areas already under protection, such as: Batang Ai National Park, Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary, Gunung Mulu National Park, Crocker Range National Park, Kinabalu National Park in Malaysia, the Kayan Mentarang National Park, Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park, Danau Sentarum National Park in Indonesia and the Ulu Temburong National Park in Brunei.

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.

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.

John Allison

John Moore Allison (1905–1978), U.S. ambassador to Japan, Indonesia, and Czechoslovakia

Joy Destiny Tobing

Joy Destiny Tiurma Tobing (born March 20, 1980, in Jakarta) is an Indonesian gospel singer and the winner of the first season of Indonesian Idol in September 2004.

Jozef Cleber

In 1950, Jusuf Ronodipuro (then the Studio Head of Radio Republik Indonesia), requested that Cleber arrange Indonesia Raya for orchestra, upon which Cleber began a preliminary study on the history and actual impression the anthem intended to convey, and concluded that he sensed a Marseillaise impression in Indonesia Raya.

Kalasan inscription

The Kalasan inscription is an inscription dated 700 Saka (778 CE), discovered in Kalasan village, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta

Soesilo is a student of Thomas Karsten, a Dutch engineer who gave major contributions to architecture and town planning in Indonesia during the colonial era.

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.

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.

Meadow Argus

The Meadow Argus can be found mainly on the Australian mainland, as well as in Tasmania, Kangaroo Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Tuvalu, Samoa and Cook Islands.

Netherlands Missionary Society

Netherlands Missionary Society (Dutch: Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap) was a Dutch Protestant missionary society founded in 1797 in Rotterdam that was involved in sending workers to countries such as Indonesia during the Dutch occupation and China during the Qing Dynasty.

Pierre Roland

Pierre Roland is currently in a few number of TV series in Indonesia, one of them is "Mimpi Manis", where he is acting alongside one of the most famous Indonesian Dangdut singers, Dewi Persik.

Rajiman Wediodiningrat

Maneuver at the time led the Budi Utomo which proposed the establishment of a people's militia in every region in Indonesia (awareness of having an army of people) answered the Netherlands with compensation form People's Council and dr .

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.

Sangiric languages

The North Sangiric languages are spoken in the Sangir and Talaud archipelagos of Indonesia just north of Sulawesi, as well as the Sarangani Islands of the Philippines just south of Mindanao.

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.

Soedjatmoko

In 1947, after Indonesia proclaimed its independence, Soedjatmoko and two other youths were deployed to Lake Success, New York, to represent Indonesia at the United Nations (UN).

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.

Supreme leader

Sukarno, the president of post-revolution Indonesia was known as the "Great Leader of Revolution" and Bung Karno ("Leader of People").

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.

Timor Pony

In addition to the Timor pony, there are eight other breeds native to the islands that make up Indonesia, the Batak Pony, Gayoe, Deli pony, Bali Pony, Java Pony, and three breeds so closely related that there is debate over whether they are one, two or three, the "Sumba and Sumbawa Pony" and the closely related Sandalwood Pony.

Trinitas Senior High School

Trinitas Senior High School is a Catholic Private High School founded in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, in 1963 by Sisters of Divine Providence under the local name SMA Trinitas Bandung .

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.

Wajo

Wajo Regency, a regency of South Sulawesi province of 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.

White-lipped python

Liasis mackloti, a.k.a. Macklot's python, a non-venomous species found in Indonesia.