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During the 19th to early 20th century, Bandung has become a popular business, shopping and leisure destination for wealthy plantation owners, in particular in the weekends. As a result, the hotel business was blooming in the city. The predecessor of the present hotel, the Homann Hotel was built in 1871–72, owned and managed by the Homann family.
Its native name, bahasa gaul (the 'social language'), was a term coined in the late 1990s where bahasa means 'language' and gaul means 'social', 'cool' or 'trendy'. [1] Similarly, the term bahasa prokem (a more outdated name for Indonesian slang) created in the early 1970s means 'the language of gangsters'. [2]
This can be translated to Mr. and Mrs. but can also mean Father/Mother. It can be used in conjunction with their first name or full name. Important to note, Indonesian pronouns can all be used in second and third-person singular and even in first-person. [3] Example by case:
Bandung. City of Creativity; City of Fashion; City of Flowers (Kota Kembang) [1] Everlasting Beauty; Paris of Java (Parijs van Java) [6] [7] [8] Bekasi. City of the Patriots; City of Pancasila; Bogor. City of Rain/Rain City (Kota Hujan) [9] Storm City; City of Pakuan Padjajaran; City of a Thousand Angkots (Kota Seribu Angkot) [10] Cianjur. City ...
It appears that baobab seed pods floated from Madagascar to mainland Africa, located about 250 miles (400 km) to the west, and to Australia, situated more than 4,000 miles (nearly 7,000 km) to the ...
[12] [13] In 2004, Djarum acquired a 30-year BOT contract from the government to develop and renovate Hotel Indonesia in Jakarta under the Grand Indonesia superblock project. [14] The Djarum badminton club, PB Djarum, was founded in 1974 by Budi Hartono. Its players, such as Liem Swie King and Alan Budikusuma, have won numerous championships ...
Villa Isola (now Bumi Siliwangi) is an art-deco building in the northern part of Bandung, the capital of West Java province of Indonesia.Overlooking the valley with the view of the city, Villa Isola was completed in 1933 by the Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker for the Dutch media tycoon Dominique Willem Berretty [], the founder of the Aneta press-agency in the Dutch East Indies.
Adansonia za is a species of baobab in the genus Adansonia of the family Malvaceae (previously included in the Bombacaceae). It was originally named in French as anadzahé . [ 3 ] Common names in Malagasy include bojy , boringy , bozy , bozybe , ringy , and za , [ 4 ] the last of which gives the plant its specific epithet . [ 5 ]