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Lion Air with flight 792, MD-82 on the Jakarta-Makassar-Gorontalo route on December 24, 2005, the plane's wheels slipped off the runway while landing at Hasanuddin Airport, Makassar. [71] On December 24, 2006, a Boeing 737-400 with flight number 792, PK-LIJ for the Jakarta-Makassar-Gorontalo route skidded while landing at Hasanuddin Airport ...
Makassar (/ m ə ˈ k æ s ə r / muh-KASS-uhr), [a] formerly Ujung Pandang (/ ˈ u ˌ dʒ u ŋ p ɑː n ˈ d ɑː ŋ / OO-joong PAHN-dahng), [b] [3] [4] is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya ...
An expansion to the port, dubbed New Port Makassar, is under construction with an expected additional capacity of 1.5 million TEUs [4] in its first phase. The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation has expressed a desire to designate the port as hub for the rest of Eastern Indonesia, [5] in accordance to the Joko Widodo government's maritime axis program.
Soppeng Regency has its seat of government (capital) in the town of Watansoppeng, located 180 km from Makassar. The regency covers an area of 1,385.55 km 2 , and had a population of 223,826 at the 2010 Census [ 2 ] and 235,167 at the 2020 Census. [ 3 ]
The Lontara script (ᨒᨚᨈᨑ), [a] also known as the Bugis script, Bugis-Makassar script, or Urupu Sulapa’ Eppa’ "four-cornered letters", is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed in the South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi region. The script is primarily used to write the Buginese language, followed by Makassarese and Mandar.
Makassarese is also considered important as a marker of ethnic identity. However, in urban communities, code-switching or code-mixing between Makassar and Indonesian is common. Some urban Makassar residents, especially those from the middle class or with multiethnic backgrounds, also use Indonesian as the primary language in their households. [16]