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Surakarta Metropolitan Area
The Surakarta metropolitan area or known locally as () or Greater Solo is one of the metropolitan areas in Indonesia where the former Kerasidenan of Surakarta () and the Special Region of Surakarta were established. This area includes the city of Surakarta and its buffer areas such as Sukoharjo Regency, Karanganyar Regency. History Kingdom Period The establishment of Surakarta began with the Geger Pacinan event in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia in the 1740s. The rebel prince assisted by ethnic Chinese attacked the Mataram Sultanate, Mataram Kartasura palace, causing the palace to be destroyed. Mataram, which was then led by Pakubuwana II, Susuhunan Pakubuwono II, had to move the palace to another place. He chose Sala village to be used as the new government place. Netherlands Colonial Period Surakarta was formed from the combination of the Kasunanan and Mangkunagaran areas. The area includes the core area of Surakarta namely: Kawedanan Kasunanan, Kawedanan Kartasura, ...
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Javanese Language
Javanese ( , , ; , Aksara Jawa, Javanese script: , Pegon script, Pegon: , IPA: ) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Javanese people from the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, Indonesia. There are also pockets of Javanese speakers on the northern coast of western Java. It is the native language of more than 68 million people. Javanese is the largest of the Austronesian languages in List of languages by number of native speakers, number of native speakers. It has several regional dialects and a number of clearly distinct status styles. Its closest relatives are the neighboring languages such as Sundanese language, Sundanese, Madurese language, Madurese, and Balinese language, Balinese. Most speakers of Javanese also speak Indonesian language, Indonesian for official and commercial purposes as well as a means to communicate with non-Javanese-speaking Indonesians. There are speakers of Javanese in Malaysia (concentrated ...
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Netherlands East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 August 1945. Following the Indonesian National Revolution, Indonesian War of Independence, Indonesia and the Netherlands Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference, made peace in 1949. In the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, the Dutch ceded the governorate of Dutch Malacca to Britain, leading to its eventual incorporation into Malacca, Malacca (state) of modern Malaysia. The Dutch East Indies was formed from the nationalised Factory (trading post), trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Batavian Republic, Dutch government in 1800. During the 19th century, the Dutch fought Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, many wars against indigenous rulers and peoples, which caused hundreds of thousands of d ...
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Batik Solo Trans
Batik Solo Trans (abbreviated BST) is a bus rapid transit system serving the city of Surakarta, Central Java. Launched in 2010, it currently operates 12 corridors. Summary Batik Solo Trans was launched on 1 September 2010 by then-mayor of Surakarta Joko Widodo. The service, which initially had only a single corridor and 38 stations, was expanded with its second corridor in 2014 and a third in 2018. In 2017, estimates place that 5,500-6,000 people used the first corridor daily, with another 3,500-4,000 in the second. The city's transportation board claimed that around 5,000 used the third corridor service daily. While it has some features of BRT systems, BST has low passenger throughput and lack a right of way in roads. There were 90 buses in service on 2021. The BST also uses local angkot to act as feeders to the service. During the COVID-19 pandemic, fares were abolished starting in July 2020. In January 2023, fares were reestablished and passengers were required to use nonc ...
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Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta is the capital city of the Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by Hamengkubuwono, a monarchy, Yogyakarta is regarded as an important centre for classical Javanese culture, Javanese fine arts and culture such as ballet, ''batik'' textiles, drama, Javanese literature, literature, music of Java, music, Javanese poetry, poetry, silversmithing, visual arts, and ''wayang'' puppetry. Renowned as a centre of Education in Indonesia, Indonesian education, Yogyakarta is home to a large student population and dozens of schools and universities, including Gadjah Mada University, the country's largest institute of higher education and one of its most prestigious. Yogyakarta is the capital of the Yogyakarta Sultanate and served as the Indonesian capital from 1946 to 1948 during the Indonesian National Revolution, with Gedung Agung as the president's office. One of the districts in s ...
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KAI Commuter Yogyakarta Line
KAI Commuter Yogyakarta Line (also called KRL Commuterline Yogyakarta–Solo, informally KRL Jogja–Solo, KRL Solo–Jogja or KRL Joglo), officially the Yogyakarta Commuter Line, is a commuter rail system in Indonesia serving Greater Yogyakarta in Special Region of Yogyakarta and Greater Surakarta (Solo) in Central Java. Operated by KAI Commuter, subsidiary of the national railway company Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), it is the first electric-powered commuter rail system in Indonesia outside of Greater Jakarta's Commuterline. The single-line system replaced Yogyakarta-Solo section of diesel-powered commuter rail Prambanan Ekspres (Prameks), also operated by KAI Commuter, on 10 February 2021. History Planning for an electric commuter rail system between Yogyakarta and Surakarta has been included in the 2030 National Railway Masterplan (Ripnas), compiled by Directorate General of Railways of Indonesian Ministry of Transportation since 2011. According to the masterplan, electrifica ...
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Solo Jebres Railway Station
Solo Jebres Station,KAI still maintains the procedure for the station's name writing, according to the ''Buku Jarak'' (Distance Book) dan ''Daftar Waktu'' (The Timetable) books, as Solojebres, which is also used as a medium of inter-station communications. However, because the subdistrict where the station is located is only named Jebres, the station's name follows the other two stations in Surakarta ( or ). The station code "SK" probably comes from Solo Kasunanan, a name proposed during the construction process. In a book titled ''Officieele reisgids der spoor- en tramwegen en aansluitende automobieldiensten op Java en Madoera (1926)'', the station's name is written as Solo Djebres. See: also known as Jebres Station, is a type-C large class railway station in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. The station, which is located above sea level, is operated by Operational Area VI Yogyakarta of Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI). It is one of the major railway stations in the city. Before Pu ...
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Solo Balapan Railway Station
Solo Balapan Station (also known as Balapan Station, station code SLO) is a major List of railway stations in Indonesia, railway station in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. The name "Balapan" is taken from the name of a village which is located to the north of the station. The station is located on the Glossary of rail transport terms, railway line that connects the cities of Bandung, Jakarta, Surabaya, and Semarang. Solo Balapan Station is the largest station in Surakarta and Central Java. History Solo Balapan Station is one of the oldest major stations in Indonesia (after Samarang NIS), built by the first Dutch East Indies railway company, Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij (NIS) in the 19th century, namely during the reign of Mangkunegara IV and is located in the territory of the Duchy of Praja Mangkunegaran. The major station in Surakarta for the Surakarta Sunanate and Staatsspoorwegen areas is Solo Jebres railway station, Solo Jebres Station. This station wa ...
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Adisumarmo Airport
Adisoemarmo Airport is a domestic airport serving Surakarta, the second-largest city in Central Java, Indonesia, as well as the surrounding areas. The airport is actually not located within Surakarta’s city limits; it is situated in Boyolali Regency, approximately 14 km north of downtown Surakarta. It serves as the primary airport for Surakarta, as well as the broader Greater Solo region. The airport is named after Adi Soemarmo Wirjokusumo, an Indonesian Air Force officer and national hero of Indonesia. Adisumarmo Airport primarily offers flights to Jakarta, with additional services to other major cities such as Denpasar. In the past, it operated international routes to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, but these were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the continued lack of regular international traffic, the airport's international status was officially revoked in 2024. Despite this, it continues to operate seasonal flights to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to accommodate Hajj pil ...
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Public Transport Map Of Surakarta
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from ''populus'', to the English word ' populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the ...
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Bantul Regency
Bantul (; ) is a regency located in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is located on the island of Java. The regency's population was 911,503 at the 2010 Census,Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. but has risen to 985,770 at the 2020 CensusBadan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. and to 1,009,434 at the official estimates for mid 2023 - comprising 502,280 males and 507,160 females.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, ''Kabupaten Bantul Dalam Angka 2024'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.3402) Like many regencies on the island of Java, it is densely populated with roughly 1,973 people per square kilometre in 2023, although this is largely because the north of the regency partly surrounds the city of Yogyakarta and contains many suburban communities, notably in the densely-populated districts of Banguntapan, Sewon and Kasihan, which border the city to the east, south and west. The regency is bordered by the city of Yogyakarta and Sleman regency to the north, the regency ...
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Klaten Regency
Klaten is a Regencies of Indonesia, regency (''kabupaten'') in the Indonesia, Indonesian province of Central Java. Klaten is situated between the two major cities of Yogyakarta to its Southwest and Surakarta (colloqially known as Solo) to its Northeast. It covers an area of and as of 2024 has an estimated population of 1,302,648.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2025, ''Kabupaten Klaten Dalam Angka 2025'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.3310) The regency encompasses parts of Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, whose eruptions have repeatedly affected Klaten's population. Klaten is home to several historical sites, including the 9th-century Buddhist Plaosan temple complex. The 9th-century Hindu Prambanan temple itself sits just outside the administrative border of Klaten, but large portions of the wider Prambanan Temple Compounds, a World Heritage Site that includes several more Hindu-Buddhist temple complexes in the vicinity of Prambanan, lie within Klaten regency. ...
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