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Nafisah Ahmad Zen Shahab
Nafisah Ahmad Zen Shahab ( ar-at, نفیسه أحمد زين شهاب , Nafīsah ʾAḥmad Zayn Šahāb; ; born August 1, 1946) is an Indonesian batik trader from Palembang, South Sumatra. Nafisah is known as a mother who acts as the sole parent in her family after her husband, Alwi Idrus Shahab died in 1996. On the 20th anniversary commemoration of Indonesian World Records Museum (MURI) at Mall of Indonesia on February 3, 2010, Nafisah, the mother of twelve children, ten of whom became doctors, broke the MURI record as the family with the most doctors in Indonesia. Of her ten children who became doctors, five of them are specialists. Her eldest son, Prof. Dr. dr. Idrus Alwi Idrus (12 September 1921 – 18 May 1979) was an Indonesian author best known for his realistic short stories and novels. He is known as the representative of the prose of the '45 generation of Indonesian literature. Biography Idrus was bo ..., Sp.PD., K-KV, FECS, FACC., is a cardiovascular specialis ...
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Palembang
Palembang () is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra. The city proper covers on both banks of the Musi River on the eastern lowland of southern Sumatra. It had a population of 1,668,848 at the 2020 Census. Palembang is the second most populous city in Sumatra, after Medan, and the ninth most populous city in Indonesia. The Palembang metropolitan area has an estimated population of more than 3.5 million in 2015. It comprises parts of regencies surrounding the city, including Banyuasin, Ogan Ilir, and Ogan Komering Ilir. Palembang is one of the oldest cities in Southeast Asia. It was the capital of Srivijaya, a Buddhist kingdom that ruled much of the western Indonesian Archipelago and controlled many maritime trade routes, including the Strait of Malacca. A Chinese monk, Yijing, wrote that he visited Srivijaya in the year 671 for 6 months. Palembang was incorporated into the Dutch East Indies in 1825 after the abolition of the Palembang S ...
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South Sumatra
South Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Selatan) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southeast of the island of Sumatra, The province spans and had a population of 8,467,432 at the 2020 Census. The capital of the province is Palembang. The province borders the provinces of Jambi to the north, Bengkulu to the west and Lampung to the south. The Bangka Strait in the east separates South Sumatra and the island of Bangka, which is part of the Bangka Belitung Islands province. This province is rich in natural resources, such as petroleum, natural gas and coal. The province is inhabited by many different ethnic groups, with Palembang people the largest ethnic group. Most speak Palembang language, which is mutually unintelligible to both Indonesian and local Malay. Other ethnic groups include the Javanese, Sundanese, Minangkabau and Chinese. Most are concentrated in urban areas and are largely immigrants from other parts of Indonesia. From the 7th century to the late 14th centur ...
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Alwi Idrus Shahab
Alawi ( ar, علوي), also transliterated as Alevi, Alevi, Alavi, Alawid, or Alawite (french: Alaouite), is an adjective denoting "of or related to Ali", the Prophet Muhammad's cousin. As a proper noun it is used by individuals, dynasties, places, and religious sects and organizations who identify as being either descendants or followers of Ali. It may refer to: Places * Alawi (sheikhdom), a historic principality in Yemen * Alawite State, a French mandate territory in the coastal area of present-day Syria * Alavi, Iran (other), places in Iran Groups Dynasties * 'Alawi dynasty, the current royal family of Morocco since the 17th century * Alavids, the Zaydi Alid dynasty of Tabaristan in northern Iran during the 9th and 10th centuries * Ba 'Alawi sada, a family and social group in Yemen and descendants of Imam Ahmad al-Muhajir through Alawi bin Ubaydillah Religion * Alawites, a Shia minority sect in Syria, also known as ''Nusayris'' * Aleviler in Turkey ** Alevis, ...
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Idrus Alwi
Idrus (12 September 1921 – 18 May 1979) was an Indonesian author best known for his realistic short stories and novels. He is known as the representative of the prose of the '45 generation of Indonesian literature. Biography Idrus was born in Padang, West Sumatera on 12 September 1921. His education before the Japanese occupation of Indonesia in 1942 was entirely in Dutch-run schools, where he read works of Western literature and practiced writing short stories; he finished his education in 1943, then began working at Balai Pustaka – the state-owned publisher of the Dutch East Indies – as an editor. Between 1943 and 1944, Idrus wrote six short stories that were eventually published in the collection ''Corat-Coret di Bawah Tanah'' (''Underground Markings''). At the beginning of the Indonesian National Revolution, where Indonesian revolutionaries asserted independence between the Japanese surrender and Dutch return, Idrus was in Surabaya, East Java; while th ...
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Indonesian World Records Museum
The Indonesia World Records Museum (''Museum Rekor-Dunia Indonesia'' or ''MURI'') is a museum located in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine .... A collection of Indonesian records is presented in this museum. Created on January 27, 1990 by Jaya Suprana, this museum contains about 1200 records through July 2005. External links www.muri.org Museums in Central Java {{Indonesia-museum-stub ...
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Mall Of Indonesia
Mall of Indonesia (also called MOI) is a shopping center located in Kelapa Gading Square, located on West Kelapa Gading street, Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, Indonesia. The mall is located right in front of Kelapa Gading Square. This mall was built by The Agung Sedayu Group. Several major anchor stores can be found in the mall, including Carrefour Carrefour () is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation headquartered in Massy, France. The eighth-largest retailer in the world by revenue, it operates a chain of hypermarkets, groceries stores and convenience stores, wh ..., Centro Department Store and CGV Cinemas (formerly BlitzMegaplex). The construction of this mall began in 2003 and was initially aimed to be completed in 2006. However, it was only completed in 2008, precisely in September 2008. Previously, the Carrefour supermarket was present in 2006 and followed by BlitzMegaplex which opened its third branch in Jakarta and the only BlitzMegaplex avai ...
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Jawa Pos
''Jawa Pos'' ( 'Java Post') is an Indonesian national daily newspaper based in Surabaya, East Java. ''Jawa Pos'' was launched by Suseno Tedjo or The Chung Shen on July 1, 1949. The parent company, "Jawa Pos Group", is owned by Indonesian media tycoon Dahlan Iskan. The newspaper's motto is (There's always something new!). Overview It is one of Indonesia's oldest newspapers. In 1982, when its circulation had declined to under 10,000 copies, the newspaper almost went bankrupt and its ownership changed to PT Grafiti Pers, the publisher of ''Tempo''. After the acquisition, the circulation of ''Jawa Pos'' increased and by the 1990s, circulation reached 350,000 copies. During that time, ''Jawa Pos'' was one of the largest-selling newspapers in Indonesia. ''Jawa Pos'' set many records in the Indonesian newspaper industry, such as being the first to use computerized systems in 1984, the first to be published in full color in 1986, the first newspaper to use remote printing technol ...
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Jawa Pos Group
Jawa may refer to: Places Southeast Asia *Java ( jv, Jawa), the most populous and fifth-largest island in Indonesia and the site of its capital, Jakarta **East Java, also called Jawa Timur, a province on the Indonesian island of Java **Central Java, also called Jawa Tengah, a province on the Indonesian island of Java **West Java, also called Jawa Barat, a province on the Indonesian island of Java * Chek Jawa, a cape and the name of its 100-hectare wetlands located on the south-eastern tip of Pulau Ubin off coast of Singapore * Karimunjava, an archipelago of 69 islands in the Java Sea, Indonesia, approximately 80 kilometres northwest of Jepara * Padang Jawa, a small town in Selangor, Malaysia *Parit Jawa, a main town in Muar district, Johor, Malaysia Middle East *Jawa, Jordan, archaeological site in Jordan * Tall Jawa, Iron Age village in central Jordan * Zaduqabad, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran, also known as Jāwa Entertainment * Jawa (''Star Wars''), a fictional ali ...
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1946 Births
Events January * January 6 - The first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister. * January 16 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as head of the French provisional government. * January 17 - The United Nations Security Council holds its first session, at Church House, Westminster in London. * January 19 ** The Bell XS-1 is test flown for the first time (unpowered), with Bell's chief test pilot Jack Woolams at the c ...
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People From Palembang
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal obligation, legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its us ...
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Indonesian Women In Business
Indonesian is anything of, from, or related to Indonesia, an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It may refer to: * Indonesians, citizens of Indonesia ** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago ** Indonesian women, overview of women's history and contemporary situations * Indonesian language (Indonesian: ''Bahasa Indonesia''), the official language of Indonesia ** Indonesian languages, overview of some of the 700 languages spoken in Indonesia ** Indonesian names, customs reflecting the multicultural and polyglot nature of Indonesia * Indonesian culture, a complex of indigenous customs and foreign influences ** Indonesian art, various artistic expressions and artworks in the archipelago ** Indonesian cinema, a struggling and developing industry ** Indonesian literature, literature from Indonesia and Southeast Asia with shared language roots ** Indonesian music, hundreds of forms of traditional and contemporary music ** Indonesian philosophy, ...
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