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Senen C. Bacani
Senen is a long-established urban district () of Central Jakarta, Indonesia that has kept many tourist attractions such as two museums, the National Library of Indonesia, , and narrow alleys with old Chinese and similar style shops and restaurants. It was first developed in the 18th century as ''Pasar Senen'' when Governor Daendels established the (the upper town) as the new center of government of the fledgling city (then known as Batavia). Its core remains in what is now the lower-division Senen District, Kwitang, Kenari, Paseban, Kramat, and Bungur. Senen is bounded by a railway line to the east, Ciliwung River to the west, Pramuka Street to the south, and Abdul Rahman Saleh-Kwini II-Senen Raya IV Street to the north. The name is derived from , (). History Early establishment Following the establishment of the upper town (''bovenstad'') of Batavia, Justinus Vinck, a Dutch entrepreneur, decided to develop two markets to serve the upper town. On 30 August 1733, Vinck est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Districts Of Jakarta
The Special Capital Region of Jakarta in Indonesia is divided into 5 administrative cities and one Regencies of Indonesia, regency, which in turn are divided into districts (), and subsequently subdistricts (). In total, there are 44 districts and 267 subdistricts in Jakarta, a number that has remained constant since the most recent administrative change in 2001. South Jakarta and East Jakarta are tied with the largest number of districts with 10 each, while the Thousand Islands Regency has the least with just 2. Central Jakarta Central Jakarta consists of 8 kecamatan, districts and 44 kelurahan, subdistricts with area code 10110 to 10750. The list is as follows: North Jakarta North Jakarta consists of 6 kecamatan, districts and 32 kelurahan, subdistricts with area code 14110 to 14470. The list is as follows: East Jakarta East Jakarta consists of 10 kecamatan, districts and 65 kelurahan, subdistricts with area code 13110 to 13960. The list is as follows: West Jakarta West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasar Senen Railway Station
Pasar Senen Station (PSE) is a list of railway stations in Indonesia, railway station located in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is the second largest railway station in Jakarta after gambir railway station, Gambir Station. It is located close to Pasar Senen market area in Senen, Senen, Senen, Senen, Central Jakarta. The current building was built in 1918 and inaugurated on 19 March 1925. Pasar Senen only serves Economy and Business class intercity train except Gumarang and Sawunggalih. It also serves as a station for northbound KRL Commuterline trains. History Background The name of this train station comes from a Market (economics), market Senen, with the same name. It is called Pasar Senen because this market is only open on Mondays; founded by the Colonial Government in 1733 to revive the economy of the Weltevreden, Java, Weltevreden people who later became Gambir, Jakarta, Gambir, Central Jakarta. During the leadership of Governor General Petrus Albertus van der Parra, Pasar Sene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rendra Karno
Raden Soekarno ( Perfected Spelling: Sukarno; 7 May 1920 – 27 November 1985), better known as Rendra Karno, was an Indonesian actor. Born in Kutoarjo, Central Java, Soekarno entered the film industry in 1941, making his debut appearance in Union Films' '' Soeara Berbisa''. Over the next forty years he appeared in more than fifty films. He was also involved in the theatre during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and the Indonesian National Revolution. For his role in 1962's ''Bajangan di Waktu Fadjar'', he was named best supporting actor at the 1963 Asian Film Festival in Tokyo. Biography Soekarno was born in Kutoarjo, Central Java, on 7 May 1920. The son of a noble ''priyayi'' family, he had access to a high level of education, completing his MULO studies before learning bookkeeping. His first job was as the bookkeeper for a cinema. In 1941, as the domestic film industry was seeking young, educated actors to improve the public perception of cinema, Soeka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukarno M
Sukarno (6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967. Sukarno was the leader of the Indonesian struggle for independence from the Dutch East Indies, Dutch colonialists. He was a prominent leader of Indonesian National Party, Indonesia's nationalist movement during the colonial period and spent over a decade under Dutch detention until released by the Dutch East Indies campaign, invading Empire of Japan, Japanese forces in World War II. Sukarno and his fellow nationalists Collaboration with Imperial Japan#Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), collaborated to garner support for the Japanese war effort from the population, in exchange for Japanese aid in spreading nationalist ideas. Upon Surrender of Japan, Japanese surrender, Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945, and Sukarno was appoin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bekasi
Bekasi (, ) is the List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, city with the largest population in the province of West Java, Indonesia, located on the eastern border of Jakarta. It serves as a commuter town, commuter city within the Jakarta metropolitan area, Greater Jakarta. According to the 2020 Census by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), Bekasi had 2,543,676 inhabitants.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The official estimate for mid 2024 was 2,644,058 (comprising 1,327,954 males and 1,316,104 females).Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2025, ''Kota Bekasi Dalam Angka 2025'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.3275) It lies within the largest metropolitan area in Indonesia (''Jabodetabek''). The city is bordered by Bekasi Regency (from which the city was separated administratively on 16 December 1996) to the north and the east, Bogor Regency and Depok City to the south, and the city of East Jakarta to the west. Bekasi is one of the oldest cities in Indonesia, and has a history of be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duren Sawit
Duren Sawit is a districts of Indonesia, district (''kecamatan'') of East Jakarta, Indonesia. The rough boundaries of Duren Sawit are I Gusti Ngurah Rai road to the north, ''Kali Sunter'' to the west, and ''Kali Malang'' to the south. The district borders the districts of Jatinegara to the west, Cakung and Pulo Gadung to the north, and Makasar, Jakarta, Makasar to the south, and Bekasi to the east. Duren Sawit was part of Jatinegara district until 1990. The district of Duren Sawit was established with the issuance of Presidential Decree No. 60 year 1990. Administrative divisions Duren Sawit district is divided into seven Villages of Indonesia, Kelurahan or urban villages: *Pondok Bambu - area code - 13430 *Duren Sawit (kelurahan), Duren Sawit - area code - 13440 *Pondok Kelapa - area code - 13450 *Pondok Kopi - area code - 13460 *Malaka Jaya - area code - 13460 *Malaka Sari - area code - 13460 *Klender - area code - 13470 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kebaya
A kebaya is an upper garment traditionally worn by women in Southeast Asia, notably in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Southern Thailand. Kebaya is an upper garment opened at the front that is traditionally made from lightweight fabrics such as brocade, cotton, gauze, lace, or voile and sometimes adorned with embroidery. The front is secured with either buttons, pins, or brooches. The lower garment for the outfit is known as sarong, ''kemben'' or ''kain'', a long piece of cloth wrapped and tucked around the waist or under the armpits, either made out of batik, ikat, ''songket'' or ''tenun''. Kebaya is officially recognised as the national costume, national attire and the fashion icon National costume of Indonesia#Kebaya, of Indonesia, although it is more popularly worn by Javanese people, Javanese, Sundanese people, Sundanese, and Balinese people, Balinese people. In Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, it is recognized as one of its Ethnic groups in Malaysia, ethnic at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Race
The Space Race (, ) was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II and the onset of the Cold War. The technological advantage demonstrated by spaceflight achievement was seen as necessary for national security, particularly in regard to intercontinental ballistic missile and Reconnaissance satellite, satellite reconnaissance capability, but also became part of the cultural symbolism and ideology of the time. The Space Race brought pioneering launches of artificial satellites, robotic landers to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and ultimately to the Moon. Public interest in space travel originated in the 1951 publication of a Soviet youth magazine and was promptly picked up by US magazines. The competition began on July 30, 1955, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batak People
Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo people (Indonesia), Karo, Pakpak people, Pakpak, Simalungun people, Simalungun, Batak Toba people, Toba, Angkola people, Angkola, Mandailing people, Mandailing and related ethnic groups with distinct languages and traditional customs (''adat''). History Prehistory While the archaeology of southern Sumatra testifies to the existence of Neolithic settlers, it seems that the northern part of Sumatra was settled by agriculturalists at a considerably later stage. Although the Batak are often considered to be isolated peoples due to their location inland, away from the influence of seafaring European colonials, there is evidence that they have been involved in trade with neighbouring kingdoms for a millennium or more. Influenced by Tamil Peoples Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minangkabau People
Minangkabau people (; ; ) are an Austronesian people, Austronesian ethnic group native to the Minangkabau Highlands of West Sumatra, Western Sumatra region on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The Minangkabau's West Sumatera homelands was the seat of the Pagaruyung Kingdom, believed by early historians to have been the cradle of the Malay race, and the location of the Padri War (1821 to 1837). Minangkabau are the ethnic majority in West Sumatra and Negeri Sembilan. Minangkabau are also a recognised minority in other parts of Indonesia as well as Malaysia, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Etymology There are several possible etymologies for the term Minangkabau (Minangkabau language, Minangkabau: ''Minang'' Jawi script: منڠ). While the word "kabau" undisputedly translates to "buffalo", the word "minang" is traditionally known as the ''pinang'' fruit (areca nut) chewed with ''sirih'' (betel) leaves. But there is also a folklore that mention that term ''Minangkabau'' came f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
